We are trusted to spread the spirit of love. Tenderness in judgment, the habit of thinking the best of one another, unwillingness to believe evil, grief if we are forced to do so, eagerness to believe good, joy over one recovered from any slip or fall, unselfish gladness in another’s joys, sorrow in another’s sorrow, readiness to do anything to help another entirely irrespective of self – all this and much more is included in that wonderful word love. If love weakens among us, if it ever becomes possible to tolerate the least shadow of an unloving thought, our Fellowship will begin to perish. Unlove is deadly. It is a cancer. It may kill slowly but it always kills in the end. Let us fear it, fear to give room to it as we should fear to nurse a cobra. It is deadlier than any cobra. And just as one minute drop of the almost invisible cobra venom spreads swiftly all over the body of one into whom it has been injected, so one drop of the gall of unlove in my heart or yours, however unseen, has a terrible power of spreading all through our Family, for we are one body – we are parts of one another. If one member suffers loss, all suffer loss. Not one of us liveth to herself.

Amy Carmichael

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits		Fruits, Diabetic	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Granny Smith apples; peeled cored and cut into chunks
3		Bartlett pears; Peeled, cored and cut into chunks
18		Dried apricot halves (4oz)
1	c	Water
1/3	c	Dried cranberries or dried cherries
1/3	c	Honey
1	tb	Orange rind; grated
1/2	c	Orange juice
1 1/2	tb	Lime juice

INSTRUCTIONS

Place the apples, pears, apricots, water and cranberries or cherries, honey
orange rind, and orange and lime juices in a large stainless steel
saucepan. Mix well to dissolve honey. REduce heat to low, cover and simmer
6-8 minutes.  Set the compote aside to cool to room temperature, then cover
and refrigerate overnight. Serve cold.
Nutritional info per serving: 215 cal; 56g carb, .7g fat (3%) Exchanges:
2.8 fruit Source: Jaques Pepin's Simple and Health Cooking Miami Herald
12/21/95
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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“Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope. #Charles Spurgeon”

If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. Rouse them to incessant supplication. There is a holy art in it. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you; and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church.

C.H. Spurgeon