January 20, 2006

• Recipe for Rhyme

  Here is the recipe, as requested. 

  Beverly Capone’s Most Delicious Yogurt Pound Cake

  1. cup soft butter
  1 1/2 cup sugar
  3 eggs
  2 1/4 cup flour
  1/2 t. salt
  1/2 t. baking soda
  1 t. grated lemon rind (I never add this.)
  1 t. vanilla
  8 oz. yogurt (any kind without pieces of fruit. I like lemon the very best.)

  Cream butter and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each.  Add flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix well. Add the rest. Mix again.  The batter will be quite thick.  Place in a well-greased bundt pan and bake for 45 to 60 mins at 350. 

  This cake travels well, so it’s ideal for church events.

  Tim, thank you for your very convicting comment. After I posted that review, I began to think about the same issue myself.  Why am I reviewing a book and making it seem acceptable when it doesn’t honor God?  Would I want Libby to pick up this book and read it? Would I really want my name to be associated with wholehearted recommendation? 

  Remember how I said that I had started that Beth Moore study, Seeking Him, and the great prayer list? Guess where I felt that I failed the most? In the sections on purity. Here, below us, we have an excellent example of my failing in the area of purity.  It is such a temptation for me to read inappropriate books because they sound entertaining or look really good (“The lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh…).  So, when God brings me to mind, will you pray for me? I especially would like prayers that these things would hold no allure for me.  I must confess that they glitter like diamonds.  “I gave, I gave it all for thee; What has thou given for me?”
  
  I did get a book in the mail yesterday which I would like to review.  When I was in high school, the first poet I “discovered” on my own was Sara Teasdale. (To read about her sad life, go HERE.) Her poetry has always held a special place in my heart since then. I checked the Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale out from the Curwensville Public Library so often that when the binding finally fell apart, they asked me if I’d like to keep the book (which I did). Then, I loaned this most precious volume to someone without writing down to whom in my book log and I lost it!  But, yesterday, I received a new copy of this book and have been enjoying it.  I’ll share one of her most famous poems, one of the ones I like a lot.  I’ll share some more later.
  
  Barter
  by Sara Teasdale

  Life has loveliness to sell,
  All beautiful and splendid things,
  Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
  Soaring fire that sways and sings,
  And children’s faces looking up
  Holding wonder like a cup.

  Life has loveliness to sell,
  Music like a curve of gold,
  Scent of pine trees in the rain,
  Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
  And for your spirit’s still delight,
  Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Spend all you have for loveliness,
  Buy it and never count the cost;
  For one white singing hour of peace
  Count many a year of strife well lost,
  And for a breath of ecstasy
  Give all you have been, or could be.

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