Name: Okra Goulash
Ingredients: 4 sl Bacon; 1 md Onion; chopped; 2 c Fresh okra; sliced; 1 1/2 c Corn; cut from cob; 4 md Tomatoes; peeled, chopped; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Pepper

Who you are is more important than what you say. Bottom line: The quality of your own spiritual life is of greatest importance to your child’s spiritual development. This was one of the most important insights of the Puritans on the subject of the family. Here is what two of them wrote: “Precept without patterns will do little good; you must lead [children] to Christ by examples as well as counsel; you must set yourselves first, and speak by lives as well as words; you must live religion as well as talk religion” (Eleazar Mather). “Be sure to set good example before your children… Other methods of instruction probably will not do much good, if you don’t teach them by a godly example. Don’t think your children will mind the good rules you give them if you act contrary to those rules yourselves… If your counsels are good, and your examples evil, your children will be more like to be hurt by the latter, than benefited by the former” (Benjamin Wadsworth). Larger Quote: (Kent and Barbara Hughes).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Vegetables, M –	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	sl	Bacon
1	md	Onion; chopped
2	c	Fresh okra; sliced
1 1/2	c	Corn; cut from cob
4	md	Tomatoes; peeled, chopped
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp; remove bacon, reserving 2
tablespoons drippings in skillet. Crumble bacon, and set aside. Cook onion
in drippings over medium heat, stirring constantly, until tender. Add okra,
and cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add corn and remaining
ingredients. Cover and simmer 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle
with crumbled bacon.
Recipe by: Southern Living
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by jaclyn@itexas.net (Jack Dickson) on Apr 3,
1998

A Message from our Provider:

“The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.”

This [boredom] is why people are so prone to an addictive lifestyle. Many people who fall into sinful addictions are people who were once terminally bored. The reason why addictions are so powerful is that they tap into that place in our hearts that was made for transcendent communion and spiritual romance. These addictive habits either dull and deaden our yearnings for a satisfaction we fear we’ll never find or they provide an alternative counterfeit fulfillment that we think will bring long-term happiness, counterfeits like cocaine, overeating, illicit affairs, busyness, efficiency, image, or obsession with physical beauty. They all find their power in the inescapable yearning of the human heart to be fascinated and pleased and enthralled. Our hearts will invariably lead us either to the fleeting pleasures of addiction or to God.

Sam Storms