Schnittbohnensalat (green-bean Salad)

When ye murmur and repine under cross and afflictive dispensations, this is a presuming to instruct God how to deal with you, and to reprove Him as if He were in the wrong. Yea, there is a kind of implicit blasphemy in it, as if you had more wisdom and justice to dispose of your lot, and to carve out your own portion in the world. This is upon the matter the language of such a disposition, Had I been on God’s counsel, I had ordered this matter better; things had not been with me as now they are. O presume not to correct the infinite wisdom of God, seeing He has decreed all things most wisely and judiciously.

Thomas Boston

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains	German	German, Salads, Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Green Beans, Fresh *
		Boiling Salted Water
1/4	c	Stock, **
3	T	Vinegar
3	T	Vegetable Oil
2		Onions, Med. Thinly Sliced
1/2	t	Dried Dillseed
1	t	Sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Green beans should be sliced lengthwise (French Cut). ** Stock is the
water that the green beans were cooked in. (Not regular stock.)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++ Cook beans in boiling salted water until just
tender. Reserve 1/4 cup of the cooking liquid and drain off the rest.
Prepare sauce by combining vinegar, oil, reserved vegetable stock,
onions, dill, and sugar; stir until blended.  Pour mixture over  beans;
marinate several hours before serving.  From Gemini's MASSIVE
MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“If it doesn’t lead to Jesus, it doesn’t lead to God”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 127 Calories From Fat: 95 Total Fat: 10.8g Cholesterol: <1mg Sodium: 24.6mg Potassium: 143.7mg Carbohydrates: 6.7g Fiber: 2.2g Sugar: 2.2g Protein: 1.7g

Having lost the security of being rooted in the eternal reality of the Word of God, we are looking to busy activity to fill the void that has been created in our lives. And under that bondage to activity we find it difficult to linger with the Word simply for the joy of it. In fact, we may be afraid to stop our busyness lest it expose the shallowness of our lives. So we go on from activity to activity, from project to project. But activity is a dangerous source of fulfillment. Instead of finding our identity, our sense of self-worth, from our relationship with God, we begin to look to success in programs and other earthly indicators of success for our self-worth. But these will never satisfy. This will only enslave us more in our bondage to activity.

Ajith Fernando