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.

Phillips Brooks

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Chinese	Chinese, Family & fr	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Flank steaks; cut in 3" thin strip
3	tb	Corn oil
3	tb	Soy sauce
2	ts	Cornstarch
1 1/2	ts	Sugar
1		Clove garlic
4	sl	Fresh ginger

INSTRUCTIONS

Marinate sliced steak in 1 teaspoon cornstarch, 1 tablespoon oil, 1
tablespoon soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon sugar and 4 slsices fresh ginger for 30
minutes. Make a paste with 1 teaspoon corn staarch, 2 tablespoons soy
sauce, 1 teaspoon sugar and 1/2 cup water. Over high flame brown garlic in
2 tablespoons oil, discard garlic. Add beef and fry for a few minutes. add
green pepper, clelery, green onion, water chestnuts and sliced bamboo and
fry a few more minutes, than add pea pods and cook 1 minute, then add paste
mixture, drain and serve.
Serving Ideas : Serve with rice.
Recipe by: Mike Price
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by Barb at PK  <abprice@wf.net> on Apr 14, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“To ignore God is the height of selfishness”

Pastors of many growing churches preach almost weekly about healthy self-esteem, as if it were taught on every page of Scripture. Too many Christians never see that self-love comes out of a culture that prizes the individual over the community and then reads that basic principle into the pages of Scripture. The Bible, however, rightly understood, asks the question, “Why are you so concerned about yourself?” Furthermore, it indicates that our culture’s proposed cure – increased self-love – is actually the disease. If we fail to recognize the reality and depth of our sin problem, God will become less important, and people will become more important.

Edward Welch