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Pride is the presumption that we can be happy without depending on God as the source of our happiness and without caring if others find their happiness in God. Pride is the passion to be happy contaminated and corrupted by two things: 1) the unwillingness to see God as the only fountain of true and lasting joy, and 2) the unwillingness to see other people as designed by God to receive our joy in Him. If you take the desire to be happy and strip away from it God as the fountain of your happiness, and people as the recipients of your happiness, what you have left is pride. Pride is the pursuit of happiness anywhere but in the glory of God and the good of other people.

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For example, there is a special favor placed on the firstborn because of the excitement that surrounded your first child or the maturity she has as the oldest when compared to her siblings. There is a special favor placed on the youngest because he or she needs an advocate as the “baby” of the family. Gender can be a source of favoritism as dads can overly gravitate to their sons and moms to their daughters. Favoritism can also be developed when one child, like Esau, appeals to the interest of a parent – the dad who always wanted to be an athlete and is now living his dreams through his gifted son. Maybe it is the child who everybody loves or is highly successful in school and the parents show greater fondness toward her because of what she contributes to the family’s reputation and the parents’ esteem as to what they produced. The examples continue…

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We Love God!

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Armenian In-law Dessert

January 27, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Vegetables	Armenian	Dessert	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Eggs, separated
1	t	Baking powder
1	t	Vanilla extract
1	T	Olive oil
		Flour -enough for soft dough
		Salt – pinch
1/2	c	Vegetable oil
1/2	c	Shortening
2	c	Sugar
1	c	Water
1/2	c	Lemon juice

INSTRUCTIONS

Source: Armenian and Selected Favorite Recipes  Beat egg whites until
stiff, then add yolks and beat well.  Add salt,  vanilla and baking
powder. Add enough flour to make a soft dough. Let  stand 1    hour
covered.  Divide dough into 2 balls. Roll out each ball as thin as
possible.  Cut into strips 1-inch wide.  Melt 1/2 cup vegetable oil and
1/2 cup shortening in deep pan.  When  the oil and shortening is melted
and hot, roll the 1-inch strips of  dough on a fork and place in the
oil and continue curling the strips  as you go along. Cook to a slight
brown color and put on paper towels  to absorb the oil and drain.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar or make sugar syrup.  SUGAR SYRUP: Boil
all ingredients together in a heavy pan for 30 min.  and cool.  Pour
over finished dessert of dough curls.  From the recipe files of
suzy@gannett.infi.net  Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 12:45:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: suzy <suzy@gannett.infi.net>  MM-Recipes Digest V3 #162  From the
MealMaster recipe list.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe  Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 335 Calories From Fat: 189 Total Fat: 21.2g Cholesterol: 97.8mg Sodium: 101.4mg Potassium: 46.4mg Carbohydrates: 34.4g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 33.7g Protein: 3.2g