God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Body to the soul: “O my soul, have we got together again after so long a separation? Have you come back to your old habitation, never more to leave? O joyful meeting! How unlike our present state is to what our condition was, when a separation was made between us at death! Now is our mourning turned into joy. The light and gladness sown before are now sprung up. Blessed be the day in which I was united to you, Soul, whose chief care was to get ‘Christ in us the hope of glory,’ and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which in the time of our pilgrimage kept your eye to the land then afar off, but now near at hand! You took me into secret places, and there made me to bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliation before Him. And now is the time that I am lifted up. You employed this tongue in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings, which now on shall be employed in praising forevermore. You made these sometimes weeping eyes sow that seed of tears, now sprung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beaten down by you and kept in subjection, while others pampered their flesh and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction. But now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory, while they are dragged out of their graves to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, you shall complain no more of a sick and painful body, you shall be no more clogged up with weak and weary flesh. I shall now keep pace with you in the praises of our God forevermore.”
Thomas Boston
Babes Wrapped in Swaddling Clothes
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Dairy, Eggs, Grains
1
Servings
INGREDIENTS
4
c
All-purpose flour
1
ts
Salt
1
c
Butter
1
Container (8-oz) sour cream
2
Egg yolks (reserve the whites for the meringue filling below)
1
tb
Lemon juice
Confectioners sugar
2
Egg whites; reserved from making the dough
1/2
c
Sugar
1
c
Walnuts; chopped fine
2 1/2
ts
Ground cinnamon
1/4
ts
Salt
INSTRUCTIONS
DOUGH
FILLING
The Following recipes are from The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas,
which is a beautiful book.
Combine the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in the butter until
grainy. In a small bowl, combine the sour cream; egg yolks and lemon juice.
Blend the sour cream mixture into the flour mixture. Knead together to form
a smooth dough. Place the dough on plastic wrap and pat it into a 6 x
8-inch rectangle. Wrap and refrigerate 2 hours, or overnight.
filling: Whip the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gradually whip in the
sugar to form a meringue. Whip until the meringue holds soft peaks. Fold in
the remaining ingredients. Dust a rolling pin and the counter with flour.
Roll the chilled dough out into a thin (1/8-inch maximum) rectangle on the
floured counter. Trim the edges so the rectangle measures 24 x 15-inches.
Cut the dough into 3-inch squares and dust with confectioners' sugar. Place
a rounded teaspoon of the filling in the center of each dough square. With
a tiny bit of water, dampen two opposite corner. Fold the two opposite
corners over each other and press the center together lightly. Place the
cookies on a nonstick baking sheet and bake in a preheated 350 oven for 30
minutes, or until lightly browned.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 306 by EABoz@aol.com on Nov 25,
1997
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