For if [a Christian] cannot thank and praise God as well in calamities and sufferings as in prosperity and happiness, he is as far from the piety of a Christian as he that only loves them that love him is from the charity of a Christian. For to thank God only for such things as you like is no more a proper act of piety than to believe only what you see is an act of faith. Resignation and thanksgiving to God are only acts of piety when they are acts of faith, trust and confidence in the divine goodness.

William Law

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Angel food cake; <12 ounces>
1	c	Heavy cream
8	oz	Cream cheese; softened
1	c	Powdered sugar
1	cn	(20 oz) light cherry pie filling or topping; chilled

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut the cake into 1-inch cubes. There should be about 8 cups.
2. In a medium bowl with an electric mixer on high speed, beat the cream
until soft peaks form.
3. In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until
smooth. Stir in one-fourth of the whipped cream into the cream cheese
mixture. Fold mixture into the remaining whipped cream until thoroughly
blended.
4. Add the cake cubes and fold until well mixed. Turn into a 7-by-11-inch
baking dish, spreading eveningly and smoothing the top.
4. Spread the chilled pie topping evenly over the top. Refrigerate until
serving time. Cut into squares to serve.
NOTES : This is also delicious topped with peach pie filling instead of
cherry. Karen's Note: This could be made even easier and very low fat by
substituting 2 cups of fat free Cool Whip and using fat free cream cheese.
Recipe by: The 5 In 10 Dessert Cookbook
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by SilkyKitty <SilkyKitty@prodigy.net> on Mar
01, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“All suffering can be traced back to people disobeying God”

Grace is reward, or favor, given to those who deserve judgment. If a judge found a serial rapist guilty, and then stepped down from his bench, agreed to take the death penalty in the criminal’s place, and sent the rapist on an all-expense-paid vacation to Hawaii for thirty years, that would be grace. The severity of the criminal’s crimes would be the measure of the judge’s grace. In the same way, the knowledge of what we deserve, and what it cost God to be gracious, is the measure of His fatherly grace. When it is said and done, the cross is the tape that measures the length and breadth of God’s grace. Like God’s wrath, His grace is holy. It transcends all human conceptions.

William Farley