Lit Wick Gazette from December 2010

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Lit Wick Gazette from December, 2010

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

~Hebrews 10:23~

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Next months theme is

"Beginnings"

This month's due date is December 20th

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Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

-Unknown

~Leslie Jane Yale~

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Chicken Asparagus Casserole

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts

1/8 teaspoon pepper

16 ounces asparagus spear, canned

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1/3 cup mayonnaise

1 teaspoon lemon juice

1/2 teaspoon curry powder - or more to taste

1 bag egg noodles, cooked al dente (a little firm still)

1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Cook chicken and shred or cut up. In large bowl, mix all ingredients except cheese. Pour into casserole dish and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.

~Maria Wytherspoon~

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Sanguine:

Confidently optimistic and cheerful

~Pina Rigonda~

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Movie review on Beautiful Dreamer

This is a story of loyalty, courage, love, faith, and sacrifice. Here is a brief overview of it: Clair Kelly's much loved WWII pilot husband survived his B-24 crash but lost his memeory. Claire is determined to find him but never guesses that finding him will require tremendous courage, understanding, loyalty and the possible sacrifice of his ever coming home. I thoroughly enjoyed this film, with the exeption of a couple scenes where brief language is used. When it ended my first thought was, "Is there a sequal?". The way that the characters are portrayed really makes you like them and feel a propinquity with them.

Lit Wick Gazette from November 2010

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Lit Wick Gazette from November, 2010

Can you Vote?

In our great country, 

all people over the age of 18 are given the right to contribute to our nation's greatness in one simple action: 

putting a checkmark in a box.

We pray that, if you are a young adult or older,

your checkmark will continue to help us all celebrate and continue to enjoy our countries greatness.

~Lavinia George~

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The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about

C.S. Lewis

~Aelsa B.~

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The Betrayal, by Douglas Bond, is a story set in the time of John Calvin.

The story is written in the first person by the fictional character Jean-Louis Mourin.

Jean-Louis and John Calvin grew up in the same village but in totally different circumstances, causing Jean-Louis to become very bitter towards Calvin, it seemed as if Calvin got all the good things and he got the bad. 

After leaving plague ravaged Noyon, Jean-Louis attaches himself to Calvin as a personal servant.

Soon he begins to work as a spy for the Catholic Church.

Now he has his opportunity to get revenge on Calvin for being more privileged than himself.

Will he take it or will he save Calvin in a rather surprising way?

~Pina Rigonda~

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Graham and Peanut Butter Bon Bons

1 cup Graham cracker crumbs

1 1/4 cup peanut butter (the recipe says crunchy but we use smooth)

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 crisped rice cereal

12 oz. Almond Bark (white or (dark) chocolate)

1. Set almond bark aside; mix remaining ingredients together in a bowl. refrigerate for 1 hour. Melt almond bark.

2. Form crumb mixture into balls and dip into melted almond bark, place on waxed paper.

3. Allow the almond bark to cool and set up.

Makes 44 to 48 Bon Bon's

Prep time: 25 min.

~Jean Black~

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Prayer Requests

Please continue to pray for the girls at EXCEL and for safe travels home.

Lit Wick Gazette. September 2010

Ecclesiastes 3:1:

“For everything there is a season, a time for everything under heaven”

~Pina Rigonda~

(Allie H.)

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.

-Stanley Horowitz

~Maria Wytherspoon~

(Sarah M.)

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In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes about the passing of time and the length of our lives.

We are like the year, in that our life goes by in segments.  In the year, they are called 'seasons'.

The months of March, April, and May we typically refer to as 'spring'; June, July, and August are the long months of summer; September, October, and November constitute autumn; and the harsh cold of winter comes in December, January and February.

What's interesting to note is that though we may know what season we are currently in, we can't ever tell exactly when it will be over.

In our lives, God will send periods of time in which He will teach us new lessons, and send us new blessings.  He gave us the ability to discern what those lessons and blessings are, but requires from us faith as to when that time  is going to end.

But like all things that are in His hands, we can trust it to Him.

~Polly Rigonda~

(Aelsa B.)

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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

~Grace Wicker~

(Nicole M.)

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Lambent

1. Flickering gently, 2. Radiant; glowing, 3. Marked by brilliance

i.e. " lambent wit "

~Georgie Hawley~

(Sophia F.)

Lit Wick Gazette from September 2010

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Lit Wick Gazette. August 2010

Three Minute No Bake Cookies

2 c sugar

1/2 c margarine

3 tbsp. cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

 1/2 c peanut butter

1/2 c milk

 3 c quick oats.

Mix cocoa and sugar. Add margarine and milk and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes. If humidity is high, boil another minute. Add peanut butter and vanilla and stir well. Add quick oats. Drop by spoonfuls on wax paper. Should set up quickly.

For best results, avoid making when rainy or humidly hot-cookies do not set up well.

~Leslie Rose Yale~

 (Michelle M.)

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WANTED: A Girl

The girls that are wanted are good girls -

Girls that are mother's right hand,

That fathers and brothers can trust in,

And the little ones can understand.

Girls that are fair on the hearthstone,

 And pleasant when nobody sees;

Kind and sweet to their own folk,

Ready and anxious to please.

Girls that are wanted are wise girls,

The girls that are wanted are good girls -

That know what to do and to say;

Good from the heart to the lips;

That drive with a smile or a soft word

Pure as the lily is white and pure

The wrath of the household away.

From its heart to its sweet leaf-tips.

From Moral Lessons of Yesteryear, by A. L, Byers

Taken from Copywork for Girls Compiled and Arranged by Sandi Queen

~Pina Rigonda~

(Allie H.)

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Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

‘Cuz he let go!

~Polly Rigonda~

(Aelsa B.)

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Cruel War of Tears

My cheeks are wet with tears, 

My chest heaves with great sobs. 

My man left long ago, 

And will never return.

My wee bairns are sleeping, 

They sleep in dreamy peace, 

Unaware that father 

Will ne’er kiss them again.

  

Why must it come to this, 

That lasses be widows,

That bairns be young orphaned?

 It's a cruel war of tears.

Josephine Haylson

(Not real name)

About the War Between the States

Lit Wick Gazette from August 2010

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Lit Wick Gazette. July 2010

Raspberry Sorbet with Fresh Whipped Cream

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp. sugar

1 bag ( 12 oz. ) frozen raspberries or 3

   cups fresh raspberries

1/2 cup heavy cream

1. Stir together water and 1/4 cup sugar until sugar dissolves.

2. Pulse raspberries in a food processor until coarsely chopped.

With machine running, pour in sugar-water; pulse until mixture

is smooth. Transfer to an airtight container, and freeze until

firm, about 30 minutes.

3. Whisk cream and remaining Tbsp. sugar until soft peaks form.

4. Scoop sorbet into 4 glasses, and top with whipped cream.

~Georgie Hawley~

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Freedom is never free, and the gaining of Liberty always costs somebody something.

My father's fathers and my mother's mothers were some of those

somebodies, and they all gave their somethings to make our Country what it is.  I know it cost them a lot, but they did what they did for our Country--and the ideal called "Liberty"—without looking back.

I am an American.  I am called to fight in whatever way I can to maintain what my ancestors put in place. I am grateful to them for what they did, and need to be humbled by what I get to do.

So while T-Shirts, baseball caps, and bumper stickers proclaim that their owners are "Proud to Be American", we need to step back and say with equal conviction, "Grateful to Be American".

~Aelsa B.~

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Count it all joy, my brother, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete,

lacking nothing.

James 1:2-4

~Allie H.~

Emphasis Added

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There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

- Robert Brault

~Sarah McDaniels~

The Lit Wick Gazette from July 2010

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Lit Wick Gazette. June 2010

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Colossians 2:5

~Sophia F.

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The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne

The unofficial sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea",

This wonderful book is about five courageous men and their dog 

who escape prison during the War Between the States to an island 

in the middle of the Pacific ocean--traveling in a hot air balloon.

Once there, they make many discoveries and wonderful contraptions

that make this island their home.

A story I didn't want to end!

~Aelsa B.

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"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

Corrie Ten Boom

~Nicole M.

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Puss puss puss, chi chi chi, chitter, pussy.

(Peterkin, The Coral Island.)

~John H.

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George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was educated at King's College in Aberdeen and later at Highbury Theological College, where he completed only two years of his course. He was ordained a Congregational minister and served at Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel, Sussex, for three years. After engaging in ministerial work in Manchester, he settled as a teacher at the University of London. His most notable works include: 

Phantastes and Lillith, adult novels,

The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, and At the Back of the North Wind, children's novels, and various fairy tales, including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. 

His writings were influential to such authors as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, E. Nesbit, and Mark Twain. He died at age eighty on September 18, 1905.

~Sarah McD.

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Cheesy Broccoli Chicken Soup

1/2 cup minced onion (or 1Tbsp. dried)

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup flour

1/2-1tsp. salt

2 1/2 cup chicken broth

2 cups grated cheese

1 lb. diced chicken

1 (15 oz.) pkg. thawed chopped broccoli

Saute onions in butter until tender (if using dried onions sauteing is not needed).

Add flour and salt for 2-3 minutes then add the milk and broth stirring constantly.

Add cheese and stir until melted. Add Chicken and broccoli.

Heat and serve.

(Jean Black)

~Allie H.