Name: Cranberry and Apple Salad
Ingredients: 2 c Uncooked cranberries; 1 pk Sweetened lemon-flavored gelatin; 1 lg Thin-skinned orange; 1 1/2 c Water; 1 Red apple; 1 1/2 c Sugar; 1 c Chopped celery; 1/2 c Nuts

Those in the world do not respond well to pain. They fear it, despise it and run from it. They struggle with why God would allow suffering. They see no purpose in it. They make themselves out to be a victim and with bitter hearts blame the world for their misfortunes. They fret, overreact, whine, and complain. They throw massive pity-parties. They lose peace and joy and move further away from God. On the other hand, Christians know from the Bible and experience that God sovereignly permits suffering to enter our lives. We trust His goodness and wisdom and remain under the trial until it accomplishes God’s designed work in our lives. Since His primary goal is to make us holy, God gets our attention through the trial and then is continually refining our character. We don’t minimize the pain and sorrow, but know deep inside through faith that good will come out of it. We can therefore give thanks for all things and maintain our joy and peace despite apparently unfavorable circumstances. Do you see the diametrically opposed contrast to the world?

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Uncooked cranberries
1	pk	Sweetened lemon-flavored gelatin
1	lg	Thin-skinned orange
1 1/2	c	Water
1		Red apple
1 1/2	c	Sugar
1	c	Chopped celery
1/2	c	Nuts

INSTRUCTIONS

Chop cranberries, apple, and orange with food chopper. Add sugar, nuts and
celery.
Combine gelatin and water. Follow directions for temperature of water. Stir
until dissolved. Cool until partially set. Add remaining ingredients. Pour
into individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold. Serve on crisp lettuce.
Garnish with mayonnaise.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 506 by James and Susan Kirkland
<kirkland@gj.net> on Jan 12, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: so far ahead of his time that we’re still no closer to catching up”

It is a most lamentable thing to see how most people spend their time and their energy for trifles, while God is cast aside. He who is all seems to them as nothing, and that which is nothing seems to them as good as all. It is lamentable indeed, knowing that God has set mankind in such a race where heaven or hell is their certain end, that they should sit down and loiter, or run after the childish toys of the world, forgetting the prize they should run for. Were it but possible for one of us to see this business as the all-seeing God does, and see what most men and women in the world are interested in and what they are doing every day, it would be the saddest sight imaginable. Oh, how we should marvel at their madness and lament their self-delusion! If God had never told them what they were sent into the world to do, or what was before them in another world, then there would have been some excuse. But it is His sealed word, and they profess to believe it.

Richard Baxter