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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Indian	Indian, Ice cream, Ethnic, Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	qt	Whole milk
1/3	c	Sugar
3/4	ts	Ground cardamom
8		Paper cups OR
		Cooking parchment OR
		Waxed paper
8		Ice cream sticks (opt)

INSTRUCTIONS

In a 6-8 quart pan over high heat, stir milk, sugar, and cardamom until
simmering. Over medium-high heat, boil until reduced to 2 cups, 25-35
minutes, stirring often; slide pan partially off heat if milk threaten to
boil over. Let cool; to speed cooling, set pan in ice water.
Set paper cups in a rimmed pan. Or, to make cones, cut 8 pieces of
parchment or waxed paper into 7-1/2" squares. Fold each piece in half to
make a triangle. With long edge toward you, bring 1 of the 45' angles to
the top of the triangle, then roll toward other angle. To close hole at
bottom, starting from the top, press 1 inside sheet to tyhe opposite side.
Tape the cone in a few places to hold it together. Support each cone,
pointed end down, in a cup slightly taller than the cone; set cups in a
rimmed pan.
Divide milk mixture among cups or cones. Freeze until kulfi is thick but
not hard, 1 to 1-1/2 hours; then, if desired, push an ice cream stick into
each container. Freeze until firm, about 2 hours longer. To eat, peel off
paper. To store, seal kjulfi (still in cups or cones) in a parge plastic
bag; freeze for up to 2 weeks.
Per serving: 144 calories; 6 grams protein; 6.1 grams fat; (3.8 grams
saturated fat); 17 grams carbohydrates; 90 milligrams sodium; 26 milligrams
cholesterol.
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A Message from our Provider:

“Your life will have a purpose with the Saviour.”

Do you mean by that, asks someone, that the saints in the Old Testament were not forgiven? Of course I do not. They were obviously forgiven and they thanked God for the forgiveness. You cannot say for a moment that people like David and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob were not forgiven. Of course they were forgiven. But they were not forgiven because of those sacrifices that were then offered. They were forgiven because they looked to Christ. They did not see this clearly, but they believed the teaching, and they made these offerings by faith. They believed God’s Word that He was one day going to provide a sacrifice, and in faith they held to that. It was their faith in Christ that saved them, exactly as it is faith in Christ that saves now. That is the argument.

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