Most people hope to go to heaven when they die. This is not surprising, given the generally acknowledged alternatives (either hell or nothingness). However, it is quite revealing to ask people what they hope to do when they get to heaven. Most people anticipate the joys of this world writ large: golf courses with no sand traps or water hazards, heavenly mansions with no worries about mortgage payments. If they could have all of those things without leaving this planet, they would be more than content. Christians, however, long for heaven because they long to be in the nearer presence of the God whom they love with all their hearts, joining in the unstinted, eternal worship of the Lamb.

Iain Duguid

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Grains	Algerian	Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 3/4	lb	Carrots; scraped, slice diagonally
1/2	ts	Hotsauce
2	tb	Light olive oil
3		Garlic cloves; thinly sliced
1		Lemon; juice only
2	ts	Cumin seeds; toasted and crushed
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Sugar
2	tb	Fresh mint leaves; chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook's Note: Excellent served with poultry or whitefish.
1. Put the carrots in a steamer basket set over boiling water.  Steam for
about 5 minutes, until barely tender.  Reserve the cooking water and mix 5
tablespoons of it with the hot sauce.
2. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat.  Add the garlic,
diluted hot sauce, lemon juice, cumin, salt and sugar.  Mix well.  Add the
carrots, then partially cover and cook over medium-low heat for about 10
minutes, until the liquid is reduced.
3. Stir in the mint and serve at once.
Contributor:  Orange County Register
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by Jack Elvis <jackelvis@moonlink.net> on May
27, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Do you want to know the master planner? God!”

Satisfaction will never come if we claim to have God, but then quench our souls on the short-lived, inadequate pleasures of this world. These “thirst quenchers” are really spiritual poison and are condemned by our Lord. Through the Prophet Jeremiah, God said, “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jer. 2:13). Our only hope comes if we can “thirst” and “yearn” to drink from the living God. As Jesus said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink” (Jn. 7:37).

Randy Smith