Gratitude is a handmaiden of contentment. An ever-growing attitude of gratitude will certainly make us more content since we will be focusing more on what we do have, both spiritually and materially, than on what we do not have. But contentment is more than focusing on what we have. It is focusing on the fact that all we do have; we have by the grace of God. We do not deserve anything we have, materially or spiritually. It is all by His grace.

Jerry Bridges

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	California	Sauces, And, Gravies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Cooking oil
1/4	c	Lemon juice
1	tb	Paprika
2	tb	Worcestershire sauce
1	ds	Tabasco sauce
2	tb	Vinegar
2	ts	Salt
2	ts	Sugar
2		Cloves garlic; crushed

INSTRUCTIONS

Put all ingredients in a pint screw top jar. Cover and shake vigorously.
Store in refrigerator until ready to use.
Recipe by: Maxine Johnson
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #847 by Kathleen <[email protected]> on
Oct 15, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“If we can think and feel and love, our Maker can do all that and more”

Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield