Name: Monkfish in Miso (Mf)
Ingredients: 1 tb Vegetable oil; 1 tb Oriental sesame oil; 1 ts Minced ginger; 1 ts Minced fresh garlic; 1/2 lb Shiitake mushrooms, trimmed; thinly sliced; 1/2 ts Sugar; 1 tb Mirin or rice vinegar; 1/2 lb Monkfish; cut in 3/4" pieces; 1 tb Miso paste; dissolved in; 1 tb Soy sauce; Salt and crushed red pepper flakes; 1/2 bn Green onions; 1/2 c Chopped cilantro

Pride is subtle and shape-shifting. There is more of it at work in our hearts than we know, and more of it pulsing through our busyness than we realize. Pride is the villain with a thousand faces: People-pleasing, Pats on the back, Performance evaluation, Possessions, Proving myself, Pity, Poor planning, Power, Perfectionism, Position, Prestige and Posting. Here’s the bottom line: of all the possible problems contributing to our busyness, it’s a pretty good bet that one of the most pervasive is pride. It’s okay to be busy at times. You can’t love and serve others without giving of your time. So work hard; work long; work often. Just remember it’s not supposed to be about you. Feed people, not your pride.

Kevin DeYoung

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Seafood		Main, Dishes	2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	tb	Vegetable oil
1	tb	Oriental sesame oil
1	ts	Minced ginger
1	ts	Minced fresh garlic
1/2	lb	Shiitake mushrooms, trimmed; thinly sliced
1/2	ts	Sugar
1	tb	Mirin or rice vinegar
1/2	lb	Monkfish; cut in 3/4" pieces
1	tb	Miso paste; dissolved in
1	tb	Soy sauce
		Salt and crushed red pepper flakes
1/2	bn	Green onions
1/2	c	Chopped cilantro

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oils in a skillet or wok. Add ginger and stir fry a few seconds or
until you can smell it, add garlic and mushrooms and stir fry a few
moments. Add sugar, mirin and fish. Cover and simmer over low heat until
fish is just cooked through, about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and add dissolved miso. Mix well, season to taste with
salt and crushed red pepper; stir in scallions and cilantro; serve over
brown rice.
Yield: 2 servings
Copyright, 1996, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights Reserved
Recipe By     : COOKING MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #MF6754
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #306
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 18:02:09 -0500
From: Gail Shermeyer <4paws@netrax.net>

A Message from our Provider:

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. #C.S. Lewis”

When I speak of total depravity I do not mean that all men are as depraved as they possibly can be, nor that the depravity of their heart will always manifest itself equally in all respects at all times. Total depravity simply means that the whole of the individual, his heart, soul, spirit, and will, is affected by and enslaved to sin, thereby rendering him odious in the sight of God. What this means in terms of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that if left to himself a person will invariably, inevitably, and without pause reject the truth. Total depravity means that no matter how “civil” or “compassionate” or “industrious” or “law-abiding” he might otherwise be in his dealings with other people, he is utterly and willfully indisposed to all that Christ is and says. Merely preaching to that person will profit nothing.

Sam Storms

It is an instructive and solemn fact, brought out in the history of more than one revival, that when a whole neighborhood had been well watered with the showers of grace, no drop of blessing has descended there where a spirit of controversy and strife had obtained a footing. The Spirit of God hovered around but fled from the scene of discord as from a doomed region where his dove-like temper could find no resting-place… Ever remember that “His work is sown in peace of them that make peace,” and no dwelling can be more distasteful, no vessel more unsuitable to Him, than a heart which delights itself with matters that provoke contention and strife… Labor with all diligence to keep your own minds in the peace of God, and in your intercourse and connection with others ever to strive for “the things which make for peace.”

Unknown Author