It is interesting to note that secular approaches have embraced an approach to confrontation that mirrors church discipline. It is technically called intervention. In essence it says that we can no longer wait for people to destroy themselves and others. They must be presented with the facts about their problem. They are out of touch with reality and need others to present it to them. Furthermore, this is best done by a group of people who deeply love the substance abuser. Curiously, intervention is hailed as one of the most significant advances in drug treatment. Yet church discipline is the original and intervention the imitator.

Edward Welch

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Apples, Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Raisins
2	c	Peeled apples; diced
1/4	c	Chopped pecans
1/4	c	Sugar; or to taste
1	tb	Fresh lemon juice
1/4	ts	Ground cinnamon
2		Sheets frozen puff pastry; thawed and chilled
1	lg	Egg
1	tb	Water
		Confectioner's sugar; for dusting

INSTRUCTIONS

Plump the raisins in boiling water to cover while you prepare the apples.
Combine the apples, nuts, sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon in a bowl and
toss well. Drain the plumped fruit, stir it in with the other ingredients,
and let their flavors marry while you prepare the pastry.
On a lightly floured board, one at a time, roll the pastry sheets out to
approximately 12 inches square. Trim the outer edges (this is essential for
the puff pastry) and cut each sheet into four 6-inch squares, making eight
in all. Place a generous 1/3 cup of fruit filling just off center in each
square. Moisten the edges of two adjacent sides, fold the opposite sides
over, and press to seal. Crimp the edges closed with the tines of a fork.
Repeat with the remaining turnovers and chill thoroughly.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Beat together the egg and water and brush
lightly on top of the turnover without letting the egg wash drip down the
cut sides. Place the turnovers on cookie sheets (for puff pastry, spread a
little cold water on the sheets but do not grease; for flaky pie pastry,
grease the sheets). Bake until they are puffed and golden, about 20
minutes. Serve them warm or at room temperature dusted, if you like, with
confectioners' sugar.
NOTES : Turnovers can be made in squares or circles of any size and filled
with any fruit alone or in combination, savory as well as sweet. They are a
fine way to use up leftover bits of this and that, including pastry, and
their handy self-packaging makes them excellent picnic fare.
Recipe by: A Feast Of Fruits
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1042 by "Marie Smith" <craftee@sprynet.com>
on Jan 24, 1998

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“When praying, don’t give God instructions – just report for duty.”

It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.

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