Posted at 16:02h
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On our way into a Friendly’s I held the door for a family on their way out. As a little guy passed me I heard him say to his dad, “I want to come back here again.” Too bad Friendly’s didn’t have that on camera. ...
Posted at 17:24h
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While waiting for my wife to come and get me I sat on a rock at the side of a parking area watching the world go by. It was warm and breezy – perfect. Just then a woman came across the parking area toward her...
Posted at 16:30h
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I spent a lion’s share of the day connected to bottles and needles being filled with lots of interestingly expensive stuff. Because it was 72 degrees when I came home I sat outside enjoying the warmth. A mosquito landed on my arm and I watched...
Posted at 15:59h
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Elementary school teachers tell me they know when the weather is about to change. They don’t need a barometer because the children get fidgety. I wonder if that is also true with dogs. Our weatherman is telling us a large storm is heading our way...
Posted at 16:53h
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Daniel is the only significant Bible character for whom we have no mention of his personal failures. Then I remember that it was Daniel who wrote the book of Daniel. Perhaps his failure to mention any personal fault was his personal fault. However, I should...
Posted at 14:30h
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My wife came home with the words that every man wants to hear. “The car is making a strange noise when I turn.” Now being male, (just by genetic endowments all men immediately know what is wrong with a car) I headed for the garage...
Posted at 16:10h
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I have never been to the Holy Land. Through the years I have resisted the urging of friends to accompany them on a tour of walking where Jesus walked. It is a desire to allow my imagined vision of Galilee and Jerusalem to remain intact. ...
Posted at 16:58h
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Can you believe it? I was ten miles away from home and I threw away my car keys. I had not eaten since breakfast. No, it wasn’t 9:30 A.M. It was 3 P.M. I was driving past the Taco Bell where we usually ate lunch...
Posted at 16:33h
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There is something very tempting about completely adopting a completely logical frame of mind that only relates to that which can be proven scientifically. For several hundred years the scientific method has served us well; with it we have unsecreted knowledge and built modernity. Our...
Posted at 16:51h
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There was an inscription on the inner wall of the temple forbidding any other than a Jew to pass inside on the pain of death. Jewish midwives were forbidden to aid any woman but a Jew lest they were responsible for bringing another gentile into...