It's A Mad, Sad, Glad World

 The madness and sadness of this world sometimes threatens to overthrow gladness!

But if we keep our eyes on He who has overcome we will find reason over reason 

to keep the faith...

From the simplest to the most profound, comes gladness!

These tea-biscuits (recipe below) took their simple gladness to my mom the other day

where my sister-in-law, mom and I enjoyed an afternoon of scrabble!

Sometimes it’s all the madness that makes it too hard to laugh

The cold tone of a busy world bent on stockpiles of chaff

With blatant disregard to That which does not lose its worth

But returns to the Giver as life’s spark is snuffed from earth

Sometimes it’s all the sadness that makes it too hard to sing

And prayer feels like a weight of great and wordless offering

Where nothing seems to make much sense to logic of the mind

Where only trust is our Defense because faith is sight-blind

Sometimes it's all the gladness as we pause to count the ways

That love never forsakes us but fills thankful hearts with praise

That in spite of the madness and the sadness of this life

The greatest of these, love, makes hope’s fount of gladness run rife

© Janet Martin

 In this world you will have trouble. 

But take heart! I have overcome the world."

John 16:33

Lemon-Cranberry Tea Biscuits

READY IN: 30mins

YIELD: 10 biscuits

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• ¹⁄₂ teaspoon cream of tartar
• ¹⁄₂ cup butter cold
• 1 cup cold milk

  zest of one lemon

  handful of dried cranberries

DIRECTIONS

• Put first 5 ingredients in bowl.
• Stir thoroughly
• Cut in butter until crumbly.
• add lemon zest and cranberries
• Pour in milk.
• Stir quickly to combine.
• Dough should be soft.
• Turn out on lightly floured surface.
• Knead gently 8-10 times.
• Roll or pat 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick or half the thickness you want the baked product to be.
• Cut with small round cookie cutter.
• Place on greased cookie sheet close together for soft sides or apart for crisp sides.
• Bake in 450 degrees oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
• Brushing biscuits with milk before baking will produce a pretty brown top.
• Makes 10.