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Here's something I found and thought it would be a great lesson for our children with Thanksgiving coming... {KW<><}...

In the White House, Abe Lincoln was pacing the floor of his office. He felt more troubeld than he had ever felt before. The fate of the Union was at stake. He felt as if he were almost alone in his concern for the outcome. Friends and aides appeared to be almost panic-stricken. Abe felt that this was the most critical hour of the [Civil] war, perhaps the most critical hour in the entire history of the United States.

In desperation he left his office, went into this room and locked the door. There he fell before a chair. With his head in his hands, he wept and prayed.

Now, more than at any other time in his life he turned to God. In deep anguish he told God that he had done all he could. He pleaded for help. There was nothing more that he could do. He must leave the result of the battle in the hands of God. He now knew that if his country was to be saved, it would be only because God willed it.

When he unlocked the door and came out of his room he felt that a great burden had suddenly been rolled off his shoulders. His intense anxiety and torturing concern had been relieved. He felt a quiet and calm trustfullness...

On his desk was a copy of the Thanksgiving Proclamation. He had proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a day of national Thanksgiving. The nation had never before had such an annual Thanksgiving Day and he had decided that it was time the nation remembered in a special day what God had done.

We have been the recipients of the choistest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.

We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Tears slipped down his cheeks as he read these words, for he believed in them deeply. It was because of this belief that he ordered the Treasury Department to engrave the words, In God We Trust, on American coins.

As he was sitting at his desk, thinking about these things, an aide rushed in and excitedly exclaimed, "There's good news from the battle at Gettysburg, Sir..."

But in spite of this great victory, his days were filled, dealing with generals, listening to the problems of many citizens, and handling endless administrative details. For help he turned to God through the Bible and in prayer.

Almost daily now, he felt the need to go to his room to pray. More and more, he became conscious of the work of God in the affairs of men.

I believe we are all agents and instruments of Divine Providence. I hold myself in my present position and with the authority invested in me, as an instrument of Providence. I am conscious every moment that all I am and all that I have are subject to the control of a higher power, and that power can use me or not use me in any manner and at any time as in His wisdom might be pleasing to Him.

One day, Mr. Chittenden, the register of the Treasury, asked him if he believed that God actually directed national affairs. With a deep feeling of emotion, he replied,

The the Almighty does make use of human agencies, and directly intervenes in human affairs, is one of the plainest statements of the Bible...I have many evidences of His direction, many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannont doubt that this power comes from above.

A Tarte of Beans.......From Vintage Recipes Yahoo Group

A Tarte of Beans

Origin: British Period: Elizabethan

Original Recipe

A Tarte of Beans
(A Proper Newe Booke)

Take beanes and boyle them tender
in fayre water, then take theym
oute and breake them in a morter
and strayne them with the yolckes
of foure egges, curde made of
mylke, then ceason it up with
suger and halfe a dysche of butter
and a lytle synamon and bake it.

To make short paest for tarte
Take fyne floure and a curscy
of fayre water and a dysche
of swete butter and a lyttel
saffron, and the yolkes of
two egges and make it thynne a
nd as tender as ye maye.

Modern Redaction

Ingredients:

250g dried broad (fava) beans
4 egg yolks
120g cottage cheese (curds)
4 tbsp sugar
90g butter
4 tsp ground cinnamon

For the Pastry:

225g flour
90g softened butter
2 egg yolks
6 threads saffron ground into 1 tbsp water in a pestle and mortar

Method:
First re-hydrade the beans by placing them in aobut 600mls of water
in a pan. Bring this to boil in a pan then turn off the heat, cover
and allow to sit for at least 70 minutes. Then add a further 250ml of
water, bring to the boil again and simmer for about 50 minutes until
the beans are soft. Once cooked drain the beans and blitz in a food
processor.

Allow the bean paste to cool then mix in the egg yolks and add the
cottage cheese (which should not be drained). Add the sugar, butter
and cinnamon and mix to a smooth paste.

To make the pastry for the pie crust sift the flour into a bowl, add
the saffrom threads and their steeping water along with the egg yolks
and mix together well. First add 3/4 of the softened butter and mix
in well. If all the flour does not come together into a dough add a
little more butter. Once the dough comes into a ball cut it into two
pieces (one slightly larger than the other. Roll the larger piece of
dough out and use this to line a 22cm pie dish. Cut off the excess
pastry around the edge and fill the middle of the pie with the bean
mixture. Next roll the smaller piece of pastry out and use this to
place on top of the pie. Use the back of a fork to crimp the upper
and lower pieces of pastry together then pierce the top pastry a few
times to allow steam to escape as the pie cooks.

Cook in an oven pre-heated to 180°C for about 45 minutes or until the
upper crust has just turned a golden colour. Brush the top surface of
the pie with a mixture of sugar, molten butter and cinnamon. Seve.

Source: Celtnet Recipes

Iron Skillet Corn Bread

HERBED SKILLET CORNBREAD

cooking, cleaning adn WOW!

Yes, I've been at it this am. I worked out and folded the dry laundry and put that away. Then I got busy w/the woolite rug stick. It really doesnt' do a half bad job. My spots are 'old' so it's taking a few applications (making me glad that I bought the big can!), but they are either gone or faded for the most part. I'm debating on trying them on the kitchen chairs. Then I vacuumed the basement (we picked it up yesterday afternoon) and vacuumed upstairs. THEN I made the sausage casseroles and my sister gave me the recipe for the apple turnover so those are in the frig and ready to bake in the morning. I also gathered up alot of other things that I need to pack in the morning. Mat's got school done (for the most part--he needs to work on a project) and they are outside playing in the barn (the wind is wicked here). I'm also bound and determined to get this dishwasher issue cleared up. I can't find anything to 'clean' so I'm just running several empty loads. Yea, not good for the electric, but I don't care at this point. SOMETHING has got to give or I'm calling the repairman.

But the best news is that I KNEW I hadn't gotten a paycheck from my 'job' (I use this term loosely as I"m a decoy mail agent and make $50/quarter!LOL). So I emailed them. They responded today that not only had I not gotten paid for the summer quarter, but that I also had not gotten paid for spring!LOL But the best part is that I"m to get the check in the next 10 days! This should be PLENTY of money for my Cricut that I want to get on Black Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hadn't figured out how to fund it (even tho this is my Christmas!LOL) and this is how! I can buy the carryig case and a cartridge or 2 for Christmas.

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #9 ~ 11/18/08

For Today...

Outside my window...beautiful sunshine shining on a very thin layer of snow. Sparkling like glitter on the roofs of the house and out-buildings. It's been a few days since the morning has begun with sunshine.

I am thinking...how silly I was to have forgotten to do my Daybook yesterday!

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Abe Lincoln, Thanksgiving and Divine Intervention

A Tarte of Beans.......From Vintage Recipes Yahoo Group

Iron Skillet Corn Bread

HERBED SKILLET CORNBREAD

cooking, cleaning adn WOW!

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #9 ~ 11/18/08

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Adult Bibs and for all ages~ gingerbread people~up date

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