Date-walnut Cookies – We Love God!

Finding our true identity as a Christian is not about turning to what is inside of us – what we think about ourselves or what others think about us. It is about God recreating us (2 Cor. 5:17) and bestowing upon us amazing promises from His Word when we trust Christ by faith. Therefore it is about ignoring our feelings and the opinion of the world and accepting what God has to say about us. This is about what God does to us. This is about how He now defines us. And since He is God, there is no greater verdict when it comes to our true reality.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Eggs		Cookie	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Walnuts, chopped
1		Dates, chopped
1/2	c	Sugar
1		Lemon rind, grated
1	t	Vanilla
3		Egg whites

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine nuts, dates, rind and vanilla. Mix in sugar. Beat egg whites
until stiff and fold into nut mixture. Sprinkle a little sugar on a
cookie sheet and drop cookies by teaspoonful onto the sheet. Bake at
350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool.  From a collection of my mother's
(Judy Hosey) recipe box which  contained lots of her favorite recipes,
clippings, etc.  Downloaded  from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 83 Calories From Fat: 53 Total Fat: 6.4g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 7.2mg Potassium: 52.7mg Carbohydrates: 5.7g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 4.5g Protein: 1.9g

Pride is one chief cause of undue anger. It is because men are proud, and exalt themselves in their own hearts, that they are revengeful, and are apt to be excited, and to make great things out of little ones that may be against themselves. Yea, they even treat as vices things that are in themselves virtues, when they think their honor is touched, or when their will is crossed. And it is pride that makes men so unreasonable and rash in their anger, and raises it to such a high degree, and continues it so long, and often keeps it up in the form of habitual malice… If men sought not chiefly their own private and selfish interests, but the glory of God and the common good, then their spirit would be a great deal more stirred up in God's cause than in their own; and they would not be prone to hasty, rash, inconsiderate, immoderate, and long-continued wrath, with any who might have injured or provoked them; but they would in a great measure forget themselves for God's sake, and from their zeal for the honor of Christ. The end they would aim at, would be, not making themselves great, or getting their own will, but the glory of God and the good of their fellow-beings.

Jonathan Edwards