Name: Country Mushroom and Sour Cream Soup
Ingredients: 1 lb Fresh Mushrooms, Finely Chopped; 1 lg Carrot, Julienned; 1 Potato, Diced; 2 lg Onion, Finely Sliced; 8 tb Olive Oil; 6 c Water, More If Needed; 1 Bouillon Cube; Salt And Paprika, To Taste; 1 c Sour Cream; Chopped Chives, For Garnish

Some people will threaten to leave the church if they don’t get what they want and intentionally create a wave of destruction in their departure that takes the pastors months to mop up. Some people will complain that the pastors never share their weaknesses, yet those very people when upset with the pastor will use his revealed weaknesses against him when given the opportunity. Some will complain that the pastors never reach out to them and then when the pastor reaches out, they will accuse him of badgering them. Some will want the all the details of leadership decisions and then accuse the pastors of gossiping when they share anything. Some will tell the pastors they need to delegate more, yet they feel slighted when their situation is delegated to another. And possibly most difficult of all, some people will show great zeal for the Lord, encourage the pastor’s heart and monopolize much of his time, and then walk away, but not before stabbing him in the back and breaking his heart.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Soups	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Fresh Mushrooms, Finely Chopped
1	lg	Carrot, Julienned
1		Potato, Diced
2	lg	Onion, Finely Sliced
8	tb	Olive Oil
6	c	Water, More If Needed
1		Bouillon Cube
		Salt And Paprika, To Taste
1	c	Sour Cream
		Chopped Chives, For Garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Prepare the vegetables. Place the oil in a soup pot. Saute the mushroom,
carrot, potato, and onions for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2. Add the water and bouillon cube and cook slowly, covered, over medium
heat for 30 to 40 minutes. Add the salt, paprika and the sour cream. Stir
and mix well and simmer for 10 minutes. Serve the soup hot, sprinkling some
finely chopped chives on top as garnish.
Recipe by: Twelve Months of Monastery Soups.  p. 32 Posted to MC-Recipe
Digest V1 #648 by Sue <suechef@sover.net> on Jun 24, 1997

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“Some people look down on others because they don’t look UP to God.”

Body to the soul: “O my soul, have we got together again after so long a separation? Have you come back to your old habitation, never more to leave? O joyful meeting! How unlike our present state is to what our condition was, when a separation was made between us at death! Now is our mourning turned into joy. The light and gladness sown before are now sprung up. Blessed be the day in which I was united to you, Soul, whose chief care was to get ‘Christ in us the hope of glory,’ and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which in the time of our pilgrimage kept your eye to the land then afar off, but now near at hand! You took me into secret places, and there made me to bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliation before Him. And now is the time that I am lifted up. You employed this tongue in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings, which now on shall be employed in praising forevermore. You made these sometimes weeping eyes sow that seed of tears, now sprung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beaten down by you and kept in subjection, while others pampered their flesh and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction. But now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory, while they are dragged out of their graves to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, you shall complain no more of a sick and painful body, you shall be no more clogged up with weak and weary flesh. I shall now keep pace with you in the praises of our God forevermore.”

Thomas Boston