Name: Prune Filling (For Hamentaschen)
Ingredients: 1 md Seedless orange; 1 pk Pitted prunes; (12 ounces); 1 1/2 c Raisins; 2 tb Sugar; if desired

Here are four differences between deceit and honesty in our hearts: One, a deceitful heart doesn’t know its sins because it doesn’t want to know. But an honest heart is saying, “I’m listening. I’m open.” Two, a deceitful heart is more alert to how a sermon applies to someone else. But an honest heart is too concerned about itself to be busy with other people’s weaknesses. Three, a deceitful heart, when it isn’t growing, blames its inertia on hardship or its church or even on God Himself. But an honest heart says, “I need to get in gear.” Four, a deceitful heart delays response: “I’ll get around to it. But I just can’t right now.” An honest heart puts God first: “Lord, whatever You want, even right now.”

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Grains	Vegetarian	Dessert, Filling, Fruit, Cookies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	md	Seedless orange
1	pk	Pitted prunes; (12 ounces)
1 1/2	c	Raisins
2	tb	Sugar; if desired

INSTRUCTIONS

Steel Knife: Cut orange in quarters, but do not peel. Process half the
orange until fine, about 20 seconds. Add half the remaining ingredients.
Process until fine, about 15 to 20 seconds. Empty processor bowl. Repeat
with remaining ingredients.
Yield: about 2 1/2 cups filling.
May be prepared in advance and refrigerated or frozen.
Note: It is a good idea to feel the prunes with your fingertips to make
sure that no pits have been overlooked before packaging. Otherwise, you
could damage the Steel Knife.
If you wish to add nuts, process about 1/4 cup walnuts for 4 to 5 seconds.
Empty bowl and process remaining ingredients. Add nuts and process a few
seconds longer.
Recipe by: Norene Gilletz "The Pleasures of Your Processor" Recipe by
Vegetarian site*
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "Bob & Carole Walberg"
<walbergr@mb.sympatico.ca> on Feb 20, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.#Abraham Lincoln”

This is ever the nature of true confession of sin, true brokenness. It is the confession that my sin is not just a mistake, a slip, a something which is really foreign to my heart (“Not really like me to have such thoughts or do such things!”), but that it is something which reveals the real ‘I’; that shows me to be the proud, rotten, unclean thing God says I am; that it really is like me to have such thoughts and do such things. It was in these terms that David confessed his sin, when he prayed, “Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight, that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest and be clear when Thou judgest” (Psalm 51:4).

Roy Hession