Remember still that you are both diseased persons, full of infirmities; and therefore expect the fruit of those infirmities in each other; and make not a strange matter of it, as if you had never known of it before. If you had married one that is lame, would you be angry at her for [limping]? Or if you had married one that had a putrid ulcer, would you fall out with her because it stinketh? Did you not know beforehand, that you married a person of such weakness, as would yield you some manner of daily trial and offense? If you could not bear this, you should not have married her; if you resolved that you could bear it then, you are obliged to bear it now. Resolve therefore to bear with one another; as remembering that you took one another as sinful, frail, imperfect, persons, not as angels, or as blameless and perfect .

Richard Baxter

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Meats		Soups	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Carrots
1/4	c	Onions
1/2	c	Margarine or butter
1	tb	Salt
1/2	ts	Pepper
1/2	ts	Paprika
1/3	c	Flour
1	pt	Milk
1	cn	Cream of Cheddar soup
1	qt	Chicken stock
1	ts	Worcestershire sauce
1	ts	Lawry's seasoning salt
1	ts	MSG (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

Chop carrots and onions extra fine and saute in 2 Tablespoons butter.
Add salt, pepper and paprika. Make a roux with the remaining butter and
flour. Bring milk to a boil and thicken with the roux; add the cream of
Cheddar "soup", chicken stock, and seasonings. Stir and simmer until hot.
this should yield approximately 2 quarts.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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When the law was written on tablets of stone, there was a significant weakness. The weakness of the Old Covenant was not in the law. The weakness of the Old Covenant was the people’s hearts. They couldn’t keep the law because they lacked two basic ingredients. Both of them interestingly were mentioned in the Old Testament when God used His prophets to speak while under the Old Covenant of the coming New Covenant. First, as God said through Jeremiah, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it” (Jer. 31:34). The writing of the law went from tablets of stone to tablets of human hearts (2 Cor. 3:3). And second, as God said through Ezekiel, “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances” (Eze. 36:27). We by far have greater power to obey the law with the fullness of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us as God says, “causing” us to obey. So there should be a radical difference between us and Israel. It’s not in the God we serve. It’s not in the desire to obey Him. It’s not in the faith of a Messiah to take away our sins. It’s not in a law that is given from God to be obeyed. It’s not even in a delight in that law. The difference is simply this. The Old Covenant is characterized by people who were stiff-necked and rebellious (Dt. 9:6; 10:16; 31:27), whereas the New Covenant is characterized by people who have soft hearts and the ability to obey.

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