Pork Chops With Gravy – We Love God!

I’d like to propose that God’s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us understand it, begins and ends with sympathy and empathy, with blanket acceptance. It accepts you as you are with no expectations. You in turn can take it or leave it. But think about what God’s love for you is like. God does not calmly gaze on you in benign affirmation. God cares too much to be unconditional in His love… Such real love is hard to do. It is so different from “You’re okay in my eyes. I accept you just because you’re you, just as I accept everybody. I won’t judge you or impose my values on you.” Unconditional love feels safe, but the problem is that there is no power to it. When we ascribe unconditional love to God, we substitute a teddy bear for the king of the universe… The word “unconditional” may be an acceptable way to express God’s welcome, but it fails to communicate its purpose: a comprehensive and lifelong rehabilitation, learning “the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy		Main dishes, Meat	4	-6 portion

INGREDIENTS

4		Pork chops, any cut up to
1		Campbells cream of mushroom
		soup
3		Onions
		Salt and pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

6
This recipe is best cooked in a skillet that the onion and pork  juices
will stick to -- stainless, enamel or cast iron, preferably  not
Teflon, etc.  Chop onions into large chunks and separate the layers.
Cook the pork chops in a large, non-coated skillet until a little fat
is rendered into the pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.  Add onions to
the spaces between the meat. Cook over medium heat  until the onions
and the pork chops are well browned. Keep stirring  the onions, so they
don't burn. You can heap them on top of the meat  once they are done.
Continue cooking until the chops are quite browned on both sides and
there is lots of brown in the pan.  Add the soup. Stir to dissolve the
browned material stuck onto the  pan.  Cover and let the mixture simmer
for 5 minutes to blend the flavors  in the gravy. Add a little water if
the mixture seems too thick.  Serve with mashed potatoes.  Posted to
MM-Recipes Digest V5 #007 by B & H Fleet  <edfleet@nbnet.nb.ca> on Jan
06, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 188 Calories From Fat: 41 Total Fat: 4.5g Cholesterol: 61.4mg Sodium: 690.9mg Potassium: 674.1mg Carbohydrates: 9.4g Fiber: 1.6g Sugar: 4.5g Protein: 26.1g