Kit Sober

Vanilla Sky?

We had the cake decorating kit that was nice to experiment with. I just saw a "helpful hint" on the cooking channel using a plastic baggie to squeeze the frosting onto cupcakes (would work for Christmas cookies). Put the frosting into the baggie and give the corner a small snip to make a small shaped outlet for the frosting and squeeze the frosting onto the cookie (or cupcake). The cloth frosting tube we used to have got really sticky and gooey. The plastic baggie idea sounds nice to me. Most of all, as others have noted, enjoy these kids, they are too soon grown up and gone.

Thanks Belle. Fred loves marmalade and is also diabetic. I am going to try this agave stuff for him. Thanks, again.

Mom's food always tasted so good, and none of us kids have food problems. When I was making some soup for Fred the other day putting in stuff and thinking "Oh Fred would like this in here...." And Holy Spirit said, that's how your mom did all her cooking, always thinking of what would make her family happy. That's how come it always tasted nice. No matter what it was. I was going to put this in the Yorkshire Pudding thread because mom's yorkshire pudding was really nice, but it was her kindness that added the special flavor to everything that came out of her kitchen, from a nice cup of tea (or coffee) (Christmas is also for a little weeping, missing those people we can't see their smile, buy a present for, etc.) p.s. I remember vpw saying, "the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach but through his pxxxx." I think this is another thing old vicious was wrong about. Kindness and love goes into a man or a woman wherever it's found, however it's given.

Ice cream Vita Mix has some nice recipes for ice cream that are so delicious, and by substituting heavy whipping cream (zero carbs) for the half and half and Splenda (zero carbs) for the sugar, I made a nice dessert for the office party that people on a diet could enjoy. Any heavy duty blender would work I think. For ice cream you need some frozen stuff, some liquid stuff, and some sweetener Fruit, of course, is higher carbs, but overall, this is pretty good for your low carb people. The Christmas 2006 batch had cocoa substituted for vanillla and raspberries and it was delicious. 1 pint heavy whipping cream Splenda packets (a bunch, didn't count them.) "To taste" 1 cup frozen raspberries, strawberries, blue berries, or other fruit about a cup of ice cubes (two small office size ice cube trays) 1 tbsp vanilla I think a French vanilla ice cream, using 1 egg yolk and vanilla would be the lowest carb version. I haven't tried that yet, though, but a low-carb dieter suggested it at the office party. But everyone enjoyed it. Substituting heavy whipping cream and Splenda in an egg nog recipe would give a nice low carb egg nog as well.

Jacquie Lawson's Santa jigsaw puzzle card

Thanks. Sometimes I argue in my mind with the thought that things are worse today than they were 2000 years ago, but this little story certainly proves the point that things are worse today.

Sounds like quite a movie (I haven't seen it yet)

Who is this Santa Clause?

Sudo, Terrific. Thankyouverymuch. :)

I, of course, say yes this is a Christian nation. The basic rights and human freedoms legally granted are the result of the work of men and women who love the Lord. In USA the abuse which so many have suffer and continue to suffer (child labor laws, oppression of women to name two) is not legal, whereas in the muslim countries, women are given less protection than cattle. Criticism and insult to leadership, legal in USA, is punishable by death under a muslim or other religious government. It is the nature of Christianity that the individual is empowered to think for himself and develop and apply a set of ethical standards personally. These words of Thomas Jefferson are engraved in stone on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in Washinton DC: (Thomas Jefferson was the third Presisident and primary author of the Declaration of Independence): More about the Christian foundation and heritage of our country may be found on the Presidential Prayer Team page

And here is a nice website covering of the Star of Bethlehem

Dear outofdafog, Hope you will let us know what are the shape of the stripes so to speak when they become visible. 1. Are these guys just looking for cheap food. 2. Are they just trying to lure you back into the twi web? 3. A combination of 1 and 2? 4. Are they really sorry for the way they treated you and looking for a way to give a heartfelt apology? 5. Along with 4, are they looking for life outside of twi?

This topic goes hand in hand with the discussion in the twi forum, "Am I marked and avoided or what?" I agree with the interpretation that a failure to acknowledge one's own sin in hurting someone is not a "heartfelt" apology. I adopted the prayer of Jabez (I Chronicles 4:10) as my life theme. Jabez was a man whose parents had named him, "one who causes pain," and this prayer beseeches the Lord to bless him and protect him and keep him from evil so that he would not cause pain. Causing pain to someone is what the devil does, and I now try to live so that I may not cause pain. The Lord granted Jabez what he requested. Only the Lord can keep a person so that he does not cause pain. And in order for God to grant this prayer, Jabez needed to have developed his spiritual ears so he could hear what the Holy Spirit was saying. People still in twi have closed their ears to hearing the Holy Spirit and thereby cut off the Holy Spirit from their lives. I just don't see how a true apology can come from someone still in twi. It's like dmiller called an oxymoron. Twi is run to control other people through pain and intimidation. I just don't see how a heartfelt apology can be given in that situation.

This thread and reading Oakspear's story (over in "My story" forum) reminded me agin how thankful I am for the Greasespot Cafe (and WayDale before it). Without these places to learn other peoples' stories (so I don't think I alone am a loser), I could see myself groveling back to twi. Thank you thank you thank Pawtucket et al.

To bring this to the top, reminding you, Pink Lady we care. Received this news story in email today and was reminded that Christianity is here to show the face of the kind and loving God we serve. I thought this was a great way to spend Christmas $

I agree with almost all of the stuff said here. An additional word of caution -- leopards don't change their stripes. People don't change their hearts. Only Jesus Christ offers a heart-transplant option (I will take out their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh), but along with that transplant operation comes humility, meekness, tears etc.

I'd love to see this guy give vp a talking to. Dog the Bounty Hunter

My opinion is that twi people do not just to go to a restaurant for friendliness. . . If they are still in twi, they are either #1 counting the time as their [required] "witnessing" or #2 they are perhaps looking for a way out themselves. If it was door #2, they would have had to do some private soul-searching, and realized some of the inhumanity of twi, and probably they would be sorry for the way they treated people previously. However, if someone was sorry for the way they treated you previously, they would have said so by now. I have had a couple of post-twi encounters with people who had treated me hatefully, and one of the first, if not the first things they said was an apology. If they haven't apologized yet, i would say it was door #1, and beware the veiled and hypocritical kind of kindness that is only a con.

Christmas card by Joni Tada Merry Christmas from the Presidential Prayer Team 12 days of Christmas by Jacquie Lawson

I was watching a "Classic" Billy Graham (circa early 1960s -- even George Beverly Shea looked young!) a few weeks ago and among other things I noticed was Billy Graham's hand motions and delivery style was very similar to vp's. And I thought, "Someone copied someone and didn't give the other credit." Also I have found some of vp's "great one liners" in Norman Vincent Peale's works. What vp did may not be "illegal" but it certainly led to a lot of people putting their spiritual life in the hand of a counterfeit Christian who made merchandise of men's (and women's) souls.

And speaking of the pfal film, I think David Anderson deserves an honorable mention. Wish he would come back and talk about this. Dave also is a treasure of once-hoped-for-seeing-God's-Real-Word-live-in-twi.

Well I hit it right with the Costco brand, it's "Ultra laundry detergent." Yes! Detergent right on the package. Indelibly labeled. I think that the answer to George's dilema is product awareness. The manufacturers of "All" and "Tide" and "Cheer" want you to go to the store looking for "Tide" or "Cheer" or "All" -- not "laundry detergent." Because "laundry detergent" can be found cheaper in the generic or house brand. But if you are sent to the store for "All" or "Tide" or "Cheer" the decision and cost comparison is for different size of product only -- In other words if you are looking for "Tide" then no matter what "Cheer" or the house brand of laundry detergent costs, it is not in the same category -- only "Tide" will do if "Tide" is on your shopping list. Example that comes to mind is my parent's generation advertising coup of "Kleenex." Kleenex became the item -- not facial tissues, and so other facial tissue products were a [cheap] imitation of the real thing, "Kleenex." Just the other day, without thinking too much about it, I asked Fred to pick up some Kleenex.