Taken from About.com
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
1 (16 ounces) can pumpkin (2 cups)
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream, softened
1 box ginger snaps
Preparation:
Combine pumpkin, sugar, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add pecans. Fold pumpkin mixture into ice cream or vice-versa.
Line a 9 x 13-inch pan or Pyrex dish with one-half of the ginger snaps. Top with one-half of the pumpkin ice cream mixture. Cover with the remaining ginger snaps and spread the balance of the pumpkin mixture over the second layer of ginger snaps.
Freeze. When firm, cut into squares. Top with whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Yield: 18 servings
Recipe Source: Best of the Best from Texas: Selected Recipes from Texas’ Favorite Cookbooks by Gwen McKee (Quail Ridge Press)

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Taken from BibleGateway.com
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Taken from Heartlight, an article written by Rubel Shelly
I used to work on an assembly line for many years. I applied all of these suggestions and they made me popular and the monotonous job was much more fun.
1. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting.
2. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile.
3. Call people by name. It is music to anyone’s ears to hear the sound of his or her name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do is genuinely a pleasure. If it isn’t, learn to make it so.
6. Be genuinely interested in people. You can like almost anyone, if you try.
7. Be generous with praise, cautious with criticism.
8. Be considerate of the feelings of others. There are usually three sides to a controversy — yours, the other fellow’s, and the correct one.
9. Be alert to serve. What counts most in life is what you do for others.
10. Live with a good sense of humor, a generous dose of patience, and a dash of humility appropriate to being human.
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