Recently we've dipped our hands into the culinary arts. We've experimented with many dishes including chicken Alfredo, lemon bars, and chicken burgers. Out of the list of recipes my favorite memory comes from the jalapeño poppers.
This is a simple dish with jalapeños, cream cheese and sausage (or bacon if you're not on a budget). The seemingly easy combination of ingredients quickly turned out to have complications as each of us bit into our creation. For future reference you need to make sure all the seeds and viens are out of the pepper before stuffing. I remember Elder Ormsby's face well. Bullets of sweat rolled down his bright red face as he said "pain is weakness leaving the body". I felt like Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans when he encouraged his team to endure through pain.
This is a simple dish with jalapeños, cream cheese and sausage (or bacon if you're not on a budget). The seemingly easy combination of ingredients quickly turned out to have complications as each of us bit into our creation. For future reference you need to make sure all the seeds and viens are out of the pepper before stuffing. I remember Elder Ormsby's face well. Bullets of sweat rolled down his bright red face as he said "pain is weakness leaving the body". I felt like Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans when he encouraged his team to endure through pain.
"What is pain?!"
"Fresh bread!"
"Will you ever give up?!"
"No, we want some more, we want some more, we want some more!"
What's interesting is we never would have known the spicy if we didn't eat. We wouldn't have enjoyed the cooling salve of the Dannon vanilla yogurt if we hadn't experienced the opposite. But now we know for ourselves.
When refering to opposition we need to remember the comment made by Lehi of old. "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things". He goes on to explain if there wasn't bad there wouldn't be any good. There is a balance between justice and mercy.
We see the same balance in society today. Some say it is by grace you are saved so you can do whatever you want. Others believe there is nothing that you can do that will save you, that you're destined to fail. So where is the middle point? Where is equilibrium?
I like what Nephi says in the Book of Mormon. "It is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do".
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