Plum Shade – We Love God!

When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught, and you sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ-that is dying to self. When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take all in patient loving silence-that is dying to self. When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus endured it-that is dying to self. When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, any climate, any society, any attitude, any interruption by the will of God-that is dying to self. When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown-that is dying to self. When you see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances-that is dying to self. When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart-that is dying to self.

Unknown Author

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Femina, Femina2, Sweet sense	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Eggs
18	g	Sugar substitute powder
5	g	Gelatine
100		Milk
12		Plums
5	g	Sugar substitute powder
100		Fresh cream
2	g	Sugar substitute powder
1		Sprig mint leaves
2		Plums, sliced

INSTRUCTIONS

To prepare the souffle: SEPARATE the yolks from the egg whites. Beat
the egg yolks with 15 g sugar substitute powder and cook on a double
broiler till light and fluffy. Soak gelatine in a little cold water
and place on a double boiler. Cook till the mixture becomes clear and
transparent. Heat the milk till lukewarm and slowly add to the
egg-sugar mixture. Beat well. Add gelatine to the custard, beat well
and place over crushed ice to set.  Beat the egg whites till stiff. Add
3 g sugar substitute powder and  beat well. When the custard is about
to set, gently fold the beaten  egg whites into the custard and place
over crushed ice or keep in the  refrigerator till set.  To prepare the
plum sauce: Peel and de-stone the plums. Chop them  coarsely and puree
them. Put the plum puree and five g sugar  substitute powder in a heavy
bottomed pan and cook on low heat till  the sugar is dissolved and the
mixture is thick. When cool,  refrigerate till serving time. Beat the
cream with 2 g sugar  substitute powder till light. Keep aside. Put a
little plum puree in  each parfait glass, followed by a little beaten
cream and a little  plum puree. Pipe the remaining beaten cream over.
Garnish with mint  leaves and plum slices. Serve cold.  Converted by
MC_Buster.  NOTES : Souffle served with plum sauce and beaten cream
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 127 Calories From Fat: 44 Total Fat: 4.9g Cholesterol: 186mg Sodium: 71.4mg Potassium: 177.3mg Carbohydrates: 14.3g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 12.8g Protein: 6.8g

A person who gratifies himself (masturbates) is totally self-focused. This act is clearly not the right use of our intimate parts. Our bodies do not belong to us but to God and to our spouse; otherwise, we’re being selfish (1 Corinthians 7:4; 13:5). Another reason masturbation is wrong is because it usually involves engaging in lustful thoughts (Philippians 4:8). A third reason is that it becomes a very enslaving activity (1 Corinthians 6:12). Finally, it removes any need of self-control in the sexual area (1 Corinthians 7:1-2; Galatians 5:22-23).

Stuart Scott

It is not uncommon for Christians to claim that the saints of the Old Testament period experienced God’s Spirit in a fundamentally different manner from that of New Testament believers or modern Christians. Many have relied on specific idioms of the Old Testament to argue that the Holy Spirit only came upon people in the Old Testament but into people in the New Testament. Thus, the Holy Spirit was only bestowed temporarily, and then externally, to Old Testament believers as opposed to the permanent indwelling of the early church. Such preaching and teaching drives a wedge between the Testaments, placing too much emphasis on disunity rather than on mutual interdependence between the Old and New. This is an inadequate and incomplete understanding of the role of the Spirit in the Old Testament. Though the Spirit of God sometimes comes upon individuals in the Old Testament to empower for specific (and temporary) tasks, there can be no doubt that His role is also more extensive. He has an indwelling and transforming presence in the Old Testament believers as well and is described as the animating feature that effects spiritual renewal.

Bill Arnold