Name: Virgin Mimosa
Ingredients: Stephen Ceideburg; 1 Granulated sugar; 1/4 c Sparkling cider; 1/4 c Fresh orange juice; 1/2 Lemon, juice only; 1 Lemon zest, for garnish, optional

Christians can be and ought to be content with the simple necessities of life… First, when you have God near you and for you, you don’t need extra money or extra things to give you peace and security… God is always better than gold… Second, we can be content with the simplicity because the deepest, most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart’s capacity for joy… Third, we should be content with the simple necessities of life because we could invest the extra we make for what really counts (God’s kingdom).

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Beverages, Diabetic	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		Stephen Ceideburg
1		Granulated sugar
1/4	c	Sparkling cider
1/4	c	Fresh orange juice
1/2		Lemon, juice only
1		Lemon zest, for garnish, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Pour a small amount of sugar onto a saucer. Wet rim of a champagne glass
and press glass, upside down, into the sugar, "frosting" the rim. Pour in
cider, orange juice and lemon juice. Garnish with lemon zest, if desired.
Per serving: 64 calories (3 percent from protein, 94 percent from
carbohydrate, 3 percent from fat), 1 gram protein, 16 grams carbohydrate,
less than 1 gram fat, 0 cholesterol, 3 milligrams sodium.
Exchanges: 1 fruit.
Makes 1 serving
Naomi Kaufman Price writing in the Portland Oregonain's FOODday, 12/22/93.
Posted by Stephen Ceideburg
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope. #Charles Spurgeon”

And who and what are ministers themselves? Frail men, fallible, sinning men, exposed to every snare, to temptation in every form; and from the very post of observation they occupy, the fairer mark for the fiery darts of the foe. They are no mean victims the great Adversary is seeking, when he would wound and cripple Christ’s ministers. One such victim is worth more to the kingdom of darkness than a score of common men; and on this very account, the temptations are probably more subtle and severe than those encountered by ordinary Christians. If this subtle Deceiver fails to destroy them, he artfully aims at neutralizing their influence by quenching the fervor of their piety, lulling them into negligence, and doing all in his power to render their work irksome. How perilous the condition of that minister then, whose heart is not encouraged, whose hands are not strengthened, and who is not upheld by the prayers of his people! It is not in his own closet and on his own knees alone that he finds security and comfort and ennobling, humbling and purifying thoughts and joys; but it is when his people also seek them in his behalf that he becomes a better and happier man and a more useful minister of the everlasting gospel.

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