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Share another scripture that comes to heart!

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Autumn is my favorite time of the year and one of the first things I do to celebrate its arrival is to place pumpkin scented candles throughout our home. While the "artificial" pumpkin smell is nice to prepare us for the fall season nothing beats the aroma that permeates the house as we prepare some of the following yummy pumpkin treats.

Perfect Pumpkin Bread

• 3 1/2 c flour
• 3 c sugar
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 c. cooked fresh (or canned) pumpkin
• 1 c. vegetable oil
• 2/3 c water
• 4 eggs
  
• 2 c peanut butter chips
• 1 c chopped nuts

Grease and flour three loaf pans. In medium mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside. In large mixing bowl, blend pumpkin with oil, water, and eggs. Mix the dry ingredients in gradually until well blended. Stir in peanut butter chips and nuts.

Pour mixture into9 prepared pans and bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 mins. Cool at least ten minutes.


Pumpkin Cookies With Penuche Frosting

Pumpkin Torte

		24 graham crackers, crushed
		1/3 cup granulated sugar
		1/2 cup butter, melted
		1 package Kosher gelatin
		1/4 cup cold water
		2 eggs, beaten
		3/4 cup granulated sugar
		8 ounces cream cheese, softened
		3 egg yolks
		1/2 cup granulated sugar
		1/2 cup milk
		1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
		1 tablespoon cinnamon
		3 egg whites
		1/4 cup granulated sugar
		1/2 pint heavy whipping cream

Mix together crushed graham crackers, 1/3 c. sugar and melted butter. Press into the bottom of the pan to form the crust.
Add gelatin to 1/4 c. cold water. Stir and set aside.
Beat together 2 eggs, 3/4 c. sugar and cream cheese. Pour into graham cracker crust and bake at 350° F for 20 minutes.
Cook pumpkin, egg yolks, 1/2 c. sugar, milk, salt, and cinnamon over medium heat until thickened. Stir in the gelatin mixture and allow to cool.
Beat egg whites until fluffy. Add 1/4 c. sugar. Fold into cooled pumpkin mixture. Then, spread over cream cheese layer. Cover and chill for at least 2 hours.
Beat the cream until stiff peaks form. Sugar may be added to sweeten the whipped cream, if desired. Spread over chilled torte and serve.

We don't celebrate halloween so we don't carve pumpkins but we do enjoy making a "harvest scene" in our yard with bales of hay, cornstalks, autumn colored flowers, pumpkins, and a scarecrow. We recently took a field trip to Rock City Gardens. They were hosting their annual Oktoberfest/Autumn Festival and I thought the following photo would be perfect for this post since there are pumpkins in the picture.

After watching "A Rood Awakening" on Skyangel last night I have quite a few verses on my heart. The following are the ones that I am presently studying:

However, when he heard that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Y'hudah, he was afraid to go there. Warned in a dream, he withdrew to the Galil ; and settled in a town called Natzeret, so that what had been spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he will be called a Natzrati. Matthew 22-23 CJB

But a branch(netzer) will emerge from the trunk of Yishai(Jesse), a shoot will grow from his roots. Isaiah 11:1 CJB

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