Cider-maple Apples – We Love God!

What are you to yourself? Worthless? Vile? Empty? What is Jesus to you? Precious? Lovely? All your salvation? All your desire? What is sin to you? The most hateful thing in the world? What is holiness to you? Most lovely? Most longed for? What is the throne of grace to you? The most attractive spot? What is the cross to you? The sweetest resting place in the universe? What is God to you? Your God? Your Father? The spring of all your joys? The fountainhead of all your bliss? The center where your affections meet? Is it so? Then you are a child of God! Those low views of yourself...that brokenness, that inward mourning, that secret confession, that longing for...more spirituality, more grace, more devotedness, more love, does but prove the existence, reality, and growth of God's work within you. Cheer up, precious soul! That soul never perished, that felt itself to be vile, and Jesus to be precious!

Octavius Winslow

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Desserts, Diabetic	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Stephen Ceideburg
1		Firm cooking apple *
3	T	Cider or apple juice
2	T	Maple syrup

INSTRUCTIONS

such as Granny Smith, MacIntosh or Winesap  Hands on time: 5 minutes.
Stovetop cooking time: 10 minutes.  Microwaving time: 5 minutes.  Peel
apple, cut in half vertically; remove seeds with melon ball  cutter or
paring knife. Cut halves into 1/2-inch slices. Pour cider  and syrup
over apple slices in small nonstick skillet for stovetop  cooking, or
in 2-cup casserole for microwaving.  To cook on the stovetop: Cover
apple slices and bring to a simmer  over low heat; cook 10 minutes, or
until translucent. Stir once or  twice, adding water if necessary to
prevent sticking.  To cook in a microwave: Cook, covered, on high 2
minutes. Stir and  cook on high, uncovered, 2 to 3 minutes longer, or
until tender. Let  stand 5 minutes before serving.  Per serving: 207
calories (1 percent from protein, 97 percent from  carbohydrate, 2
percent from fat), less than 1 gram protein, 54 grams  carbohydrate, 1
gram fat, 0 cholesterol, 26 milligrams sodium.  Exchanges: 2 fruit.
From the Oregonian FOODday, 1/5/93.  Posted by Stephen Ceideburg  From
Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution. #Billy Graham”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 444 Calories From Fat: 4 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 10.5mg Potassium: 776.5mg Carbohydrates: 115.8g Fiber: 4.5g Sugar: 109.1g Protein: 2.4g

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit.

George Muller