The continuum of our Christian experience is often a rhythm of
sleeping and waking to God. It's not falling asleep that's so deadly
as much as it is staying asleep.

-- from Sue Monk Kidd's God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

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(Thought it would be easier to type this recipe up here than in a long Facebook comment.)

You don't have to be Swedish to enjoy these melt-in-your-mouth cookies! Experience has shown me to make this in double and quadruple batches, since they disappear.

Ingredients:

1 cup oil

1 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 cups + 4 TBL flour

1 tsp cream of tartar

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

Sugar in the Raw for pressing

Cream together oil, margarine and sugars. Add eggs and flavoring to above. Roll dough into balls. Roll in the Sugar in the Raw. Dip a glass in sugar and press. Bake 12-15 minutes at 350. Makes 6-7 dozen.

"Christianity has been specially advanced through the loving service
rendered to strangers. It is a scandal that there is not a single
Christian who is a beggar and that Christians care not only for their
own poor, but for ours as well."

HT Women At Risk International, http://www.warinternational.org

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