The Red Light I’m a driving examiner for the state of Indiana and while I was giving a road test to a young man, he went through a red light without stopping. I told him he had automatically failed the test. We met up with his mother back at the […]
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On my four-year-old daughter’s first trip to Disneyland, she couldn’t wait to get on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. As the car zoomed through the crazy rooms, into the path of a speeding train, and through walls that fell away at the last second, she clutched the little steering wheel in
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For the Last Time “How are you getting along with trying to date that new co-worker?” “Not so bad. I’m getting some encouragement now.” “Really? Is she beginning to smile sweetly at you or something?” “Not exactly, but last night, she said she’s said no for the last time.” Safety
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When I was in college I was poor. So poor, in fact, that I often found myself out of food. One day I spent my last two dollars on four loaves of bread, and didn’t know where my next meal would come from once those were gone.I decided to call
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
I had my note sheet with several totals
that were quite a bit more than the twenty, one dollar bills I had rolled up in
my hand that held my pencil. Twenty one-dollar bills, my reward for picking a
ton of cotton which would wind up as one bale.
I went back over the racks of shirts
looking for some a little less expensive, writing the price down in the column.
Then to the pants, shoes, underwear, same thing. I could do without a new belt
as I could buy a smaller waist size and get by without one. The total was still
too high.
I sat down to rest in a chair used for
fitting shoes while staring at the holes in the knees of my pants. Those
weren’t holes I mused, there was only a strip of pants cloth two or three
inches wide holding the bottom of the pants on below my knees. The holes in the
toes my shoes gave witness that I still had ten of them. Worn from dragging the
cotton sack while on my knees for miles and miles down those hot dusty rows.
“Hi! Have you decided which items
you’d like to buy?” Mrs. Liebermann kindly asked.
An older lady was in the hospital reading her Bible when her doctor came in for his visit. She asked him how she was doing. He told her to read Hebrews 13:8, which says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever”, meaning she was about the same.
However, she reversed the numbers and read Hebrews 8:13, “Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away,” which concerned her very much.
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The 17 prophetic books take up about one fourth of the whole Bible. They are divided into 2 parts. The first 5 are ‘Major Prophets’ and the last 12 are the ‘Minor Prophets’, but only because they are shorter.
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