Name: Alice's Oatmeal Rounds
Ingredients: 1 c Sugar; 1/2 c Raisins; 1 c Shortening (half butter or margarine); 1 3/4 c Flour; 1 ts Baking soda; 2 Eggs; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 ts Vanilla; 1/2 ts Cinnamon; 1 c Rolled oats

There is no such thing as luck” or “accident”… We must resist limiting God’s sovereignty in the face of suffering. The comfort of God…is not His empathy with us as someone who feels the tragedy of evil but is helpless in it. Nor does the comfort of God reside in His actions as a “fourth-quarter quarterback,” who is brought in after things have fallen apart to save the day just before the whistle blows. There is no comfort in suffering if God is not sovereign over it. To pare down God’s sovereignty is to render suffering a triumph of evil and sin against the limited will and power of God.

Scott Hafemann

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		pat’s coll, Cookies: fo, out to m/c	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Raisins
1	c	Shortening (half butter or margarine)
1 3/4	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking soda
2		Eggs
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
1	c	Rolled oats

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly. Blend remaining
ingredients into shortening mixture. Refrigerate dough 4 to 5 hours or
overnight. Heat oven to 375. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on an
ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with greased bottom of glass dipped in
sugar. Bake 10 minutes. Makes about 4-1/2 dozen cookies. (55 cookies; 28
per lb.) NOTE: If using self rising flour, omit soda and salt. Input:
10/29/91
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #287
Date: 09 Nov 96 08:18:18 EST
From: Pat Minotti <76401.3715@compuserve.com>

A Message from our Provider:

“Death: the end of excuses, the beginning of eternity”

Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield