When I view a particular possibility as threatening, it imperils some value important to me. That is what I mean by threat. But suppose this threat is directed not to some modest finite value I love but to the very center of my value system, that focal value by which all my other values are viewed as valuable. Suppose my god is sex or my own physical health or the Democratic Party. If I experience one of these as under genuine threat, then I feel myself shake to the depths. In this way, idolatry intensifies anxiety.

Thomas Oden

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Meats, Old, Good, Meal	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

5	md	Onions, sliced
2	tb	Oil
2	lb	Lean beef, cubed
1/8	ts	Marjoram, dried
1/8	ts	Thyme, dried
1/2	tb	Flour
		Salt & pepper to taste
1	c	Beef boullion
1	c	Dry red wine
1/2	lb	Sliced mushrooms
12	sm	New potatoes (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Fry the onions in the oil. Remove and set aside. Add beef and brown well.
Sprinkle with flour and seasonings (about a pinch of each) Add boullion and
wine. Stir slightly. Cover and simmer as low as possible or place in a
casserole in a 250 degree oven for 3 1/2 hours. Add onions, mushrooms and
potatoes and cook until tender, about 45 minutes longer. Could also be done
in a crock pot.
Source: unknown over 20 years ago
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #018 by Hank & Anne Reintges
<hgreintges@SkyBest.Com> on Jan 18, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Time: A longing in man for reuniting with God.”

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.

John Piper