Good late evening!!! THE MEAL is over and I am so thankful! Thankful we fed as many people as we fed and that everything was as close to perfect as I could get it! The room was pretty -- red table cloths and Tyler roses on each table in my crystal vases - of course some of them were just glass!! Brisket was tender - there was a variety of rare and done;the best chicken legs we've ever grilled; wonderful beans -- I will give you the recipe soon; and 11 of the most delicious pies! All refrigerated - two of each - Lemon Icebox, Pink Lemonade, Pineapple, Strawberry and Blueberry with pecans. I will share recipes -- they were all delicious -- I managed to taste all of them even though I didn't get a piece of any!! I am so thankful I lived up to my reputation and it is over!!!
Here is something to think about!!
Your New Nature
Philippians 4:11
“For I have learned, to be content in whatever circumstances I am.”
This scripture show us that contentment is not a natural position for man. “Ill weeds grow abundant.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to a man as Johnson grass is to a cotton patch.
Once upon a time, (by this you know there is a story coming) down out of Logansport Louisiana, there lived an old Bull Frog by this creek. Oh, how he loved that old creek, he would sit oh the bank and catch flies and visit with his other frog friends for hours. One day as he was enjoying the life of ease, up walks a scorpion. Mr. Frog, I sure need to go to the other side of the creek, would you please let me get on your back and take me across. The old Bull Frog said, are you nuts, you will sting me and I will die! The scorpion said, are you sick? Mr. Frog if you die you will sink, and I will drown, Oh you foolish frog. I never though of it that way, hop on, I will take you. About half way across the scorpion popped his stinger in the frogs back. The frog said, “Why did you sting me, don’t you know that now we will both die?” Yes I know, but I just could not help it, you see, it’s my nature!
Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to a man as thorns and brambles are to the soil. You need not sow thistles, Johnson grass, choke grass, and brambles; they just come up naturally. But the precious things of the earth must be cultivated.
Contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, it must be cultivated. It will not grow in us by nature; it is the new nature alone that can produce it. We must be specially careful and watchful that we maintain and cultivate the grace which God has sown in us. Paul says, “I have learned…to be content;” as much as to say, he did not know how at one time. It cost him some pain to attain to the mystery of that great truth. He was an old, grey- headed man, waiting for his death, in a prisoner shut up in Nero’s dungeon at Rome. Do not think that you can be content with learning or learn without discipline. It is not a power that can be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. We know this from experience. So, my dear reader, hush that murmuring, that’s the old nature. Let God take control and bless you with the New Nature!
“May the lamb that was slain receive the rewards of His suffering.”
I told you I would tell you about my trip to Winona on Friday night and I will - just not tonight! Tonight I will give you the recipe for the Strawberry Pie II I made for tonight!!
STRAWBERRY PIE
1 Pkg. 8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 small package frozen strawberries
1 large container Cool Whip
2 graham cracker crusts
Combine softened cream cheese and sugar. Beat until creamy and then add thawed strawberries with juice. Combine well. Fold in Cool Whip and pour into 2 Graham Cracker Crusts. Chill at least 2 hours. (May be made the night before and chilled overnight-- Just as good!!!
I have lots of more for you -- please stay tuned!!
Look for someone to help! Are you doing that?? Sometimes they come to you. Yesterday a lady came to see me at the bank and it seems the mailman had returned her mail "UNDELIVERABLE" and she had not received a bank statement in four months. (I told her should should have called the bank the first weekend that occured.) Short story - she had $840.00 in overdraft fees so I refunded $420.00 - an heard of amount for a refund where we (the bank) did not make the mistate but I felt really sad because her only income was SSI Disability for about $800 per month!
So see - people of all walks of life are out there -- God is Watching -- so please help! Have a restful evening and may God bless each of you!
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