Nutmeg Pasta – We Love God!

Why, see what accumulated force there is in prayer, when one after another pours out his vehement desires; when many seem to be tugging at the rope; when many seem to be knocking mercy’s gate; when the mighty cries of many burning hearts come up to heaven. When, my beloved, you go and shake the very gates thereof with the powerful battering-ram of a holy vehemence, and sacred importunity, then is it that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. When first one, and then another, and yet another, throws his whole soul into the prayer, the kingdom of heaven is conquered and the victory becomes great indeed.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Vegetables	German		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Durum semolina
1	t	Ground nutmeg
1		Egg
1	t	Vegetable oil, optional
2	T	Water, if and as needed
1 1/4	c	Durum semolina
1	T	Vegetable oil, optional
21		mg sodium

INSTRUCTIONS

Freshly grated nutmeg, if available, is superior in this pasta. Per 1
cup Serving: 252calories 10.1g protein 42.6g carbohydrate 4.4g fat  The
Pasta Machine Cookbook Donna Rathmell German ISBN: 1-55867-081-5
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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 247 Calories From Fat: 213 Total Fat: 24.1g Cholesterol: 186mg Sodium: 72.2mg Potassium: 77mg Carbohydrates: 1.4g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: 6.4g

Jesus Christ demands self-denial, that is, self-negation (Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23), as a necessary condition of discipleship. Self-denial is a summons to submit to the authority of God as Father and of Jesus as Lord and to declare lifelong war on one's instinctive egoism. What is to be negated is not personal self or one's existence as a rational and responsible human being. Jesus does not plan to turn us into zombies, nor does he ask us to volunteer for a robot role. The required denial is of carnal self, the egocentric, self-deifying urge with which we were born and which dominates us so ruinously in our natural state. Jesus links self-denial with cross-bearing. Cross-bearing is far more than enduring this or that hardship. Carrying one's cross in Jesus' day, as we learn from the story of Jesus' own crucifixion, was required of those whom society had condemned, whose rights were forfeit, and who were now being led out to their execution. The cross they carried was the instrument of death. Jesus represents discipleship as a matter of following him, and following him as based on taking up one's cross in self-negation. Carnal self would never consent to cast us in such a role. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was right: Accepting death to everything that carnal self wants to possess is what Christ's summons to self-denial was all about.

J.I. Packer