God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The night dews of affliction and disappointment may fall thickly upon it – the storms of sorrow may beat heavily against it – the winds of adversity may howl fearfully around it – but, like those fabled lamps of which we read, that, century after century, illumined the sepulchers of the east – burning with calm and steady light, amid the desolation of all earthly things – unchanged and unextinguishable; so does this joy – this living spark struck off from the great source of light and life – outlive all deaths, all changes, until it accompanies the freed spirit of the believer in whom it dwells, back to those abodes of joy from whence it came.
Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.
TOPPING
1. In large bowl, combine ketchup, tomato juice, salt, black and red
peppers, eggs, bread crumbs, onions and mustard. Mix until thoroughly
blended.
2. Add ground beef. Mix gently but thoroughly.
3. Line a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with foil. Press in the beef mixture.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the topping ingredients, mixing well. Spread
topping over the meat loaf.
5. Bake at 400 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes or until done.
6. Drain off fat. Rest meat loaf 5 minutes before serving. Garnish with
fresh herbs, if desired. 5-6 servings.
FROM "GREAT AMERICAN RECIPES"
From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained
lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.
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