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
Seafood, Eggs, Meats, Grains	Chinese	Fish/shellf, Chinese	3	Servings

INGREDIENTS

	c	Cold cooked rice
3		Eggs, slightly beaten
1/3	c	Raw shrimp, cleaned and
		Slivered
1/3	c	BBQ pork
1/2	ts	Cornstarch
1	ts	Wine
1	tb	Soy sauce
1/4	ts	MSG (optional)
2		Green onions, diced
1	ts	Salt
		Peanut oil

INSTRUCTIONS

CATE VANICEK
Pan-fry the eggs into thin sheets in a frying pan.  Remove and cut into
small strips.
Heat peanut oil over high heat.  Stir-fry shrimp and chicken.  When done,
sizzle in 1 tsp. wine.
Add the cooked rice.  Stir until well-mixed.  Add 1 tbsp. soy sauce, 1/4
tsp. MSG and the diced green onion.  Add 1 tsp. salt (or more). Stir-frry
for at least 10 minutes over MEDIUM heat.  Add egg strips.
Serve hot.
Note: The cooked rice should not be sticky.  It might even be better to use
day-old rice.  If you must use freshly cooked rice, you may spread the rice
on a cookie sheet and let cool completely before you stir-fry it.
SOURCE: Stella Chan's Secrets in the Art of Chinese Cooking.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #255
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:55:52 -0400
From: BobbieB1@aol.com

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