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Coffee recipes to perk up your day...

Caffe Di Cioccolata

Ingredients:

1/4 c Instant espresso

1/4 c Instant cocoa

2 c Boiling water

Whipped cream

Finely shredded orange peel or ground cinnamon

How To:

Combine coffee and cocoa. Add boiling water and stir to dissolve. Pour into demitasse cups. Top each serving with whipped cream and shredded orange peel. Serves 6 to 7.

Danish Coffee

Ingredients:

8 c Hot coffee

1 c Dark rum

3/4 c Sugar

2 Cinnamon sticks

12 Cloves (whole)

How To:

In a very large heavy saucepan, combine all the ingredients, cover and keep on low heat for about 2 hours. Serve in coffee mugs.

Dublin Dream

Ingredients:

1 tb Instant coffee

1 1/2 tb Instant hot chocolate

1/2 oz Irish cream liqueur

3/4 c Boiling water

1/4 c Whipped cream

How To:

In an Irish coffee glass, place all ingredients except for the whipped cream. Stir until well mixed, and garnish with whipped cream.

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Alive

Do you ever wonder?

Or ever do you see?

Sometimes it’s much simpler

Or complicated it may be

It is so subtle

At times naive

It goes around in circles

Frequently are relieved

Mostly troubled

And heavily burdened

Vastly bothered

Unanswered they remain

Interrogating myself

Why is this happening

Mutely deaf?

This process of informing

Or just simply blind

To reality

Answers are hard to find

To be justly

One thing I know

And this is for sure

That my existence still show

And I think until now

I am alive

And vast ideas

Still enveloped in my mind

And that bursts of thoughts

Are there waiting to climb

Cannot wait anymore...

Like reaching that precious goal...

Sightings

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:2-16

The Pharisees approached and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him.

He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?" 

They replied, "Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her." 

But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. 

But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female. 

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 

Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." 

In the house the disciples again questioned him about this. 

He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 

When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 

Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."

Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.