God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Frankly, the deepest pain you'll ever know and the deepest pain I'll ever know is not physical. It's not material. It doesn't have to do with our physical body and it doesn't have to do with our material or economic or circumstantial life patterns. The greatest pain we will ever know is relational. It is the potential of people to devastate us, to destroy us, to abuse us. And apart from internal personal guilt which has to be the greatest pain but that is personal and internal, the most serious pain we suffer in the world comes from unfulfilled and devastated relationships. No disease is as painful as rejection. No disease is as painful as false accusation. No disease is as painful as misrepresentation, betrayal [and] hatred.
People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.
Thin asparagus, end trimmed and stalks peeled to the tip, if thick
1/2
Head red-leaf lettuce
1/4
c
Rice wine vinegar
2
tb
Soy sauce
1/2
ts
Sugar
1/4
ts
Dried red pepper flakes
3
tb
Corn oil
4
ts
Sesame seed oil
Coarse salt
1
ts
Unsalted butter
1/4
c
Raw sunflower seeds
1
tb
Diagonally sliced green onion, green part only
INSTRUCTIONS
(From "Pacific Northwest Palate," by Susan Bradley.)
Slice the asparagus in a long diagonal at 2" intervals. Blanch in a
large pot of boiling water for about 4 minutes, until just
tender-crunchy. Drain, refresh under cold running water, then dry
carefully with paper towels.
Whisk together the rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, red pepper,
corn oil, sesame seed oil and salt, to taste. Toss with the
asparagus. Cool, cover and refrigerate for several hours or
overnight, if desired.
Melt the butter in a small saute pan and stir-fry the sunflower seeds
until golden brown. Remove and reserve.
When ready to serve, toss the asparagus and vinaigrette again,
arrange on red lettuce leaves on individual salad plates and top with
toasted sunflower seeds and sliced green onions.
From Tuscon area newspapers, 1994, 3rd quarter, courtest Mike Orchekowski.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/tn-94q3.zip
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