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A Chambered Nautilus
“The Chambered Nautilus” is a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes which has been taught and discussed in school rooms for generations in America. In it Holmes writes of the “silent toil” of the nautilus to construct an ever growing shell, into which the creature continues to inhabit and to grow. At the very last stanza…
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Ponies And A Person
Ally, a friend of mine from California told this story about herself when she was a child. Ally overheard her father tell her mother that they would “take the Pontiac up the coast to San Francisco and catch the circus there” on their summer vacation. What she thought she heard was, “We’ll take the pony…
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Love That Migrates
“Your love must migrate; cast off your moorings from creatures, moor yourself to the creator. Change your love, change your fear; the only things that make good or bad lives are good or bad loves.” (St.. Augustine, sermon # 313A) The only direct preparation given to Peter in order for him to become on apostle…
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Walking the Earth
The eighth person to walk on the moon, and the first to ride on it was James Irwin in 1971. While Irwin was on the moon he experienced the presence of God in such a way that a year later he left the space program and began to preach his faith, repeating his famous statement,…
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Knowing the Way
When the weather became cooler we decided that it was safe to paint our new kitchen door which receives full sun in the afternoon. The exterior is surrounded by multicolored brick and so I matched the paint to one of the brick colors. Halfway through the painter’s job, Jack came to me and said, “Come…
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Peace From Chaos
Trying to print out a pamphlet in the church work room I was frustrated with the slow progress and the repeated stops of the machine, and I said to the aid who was better qualified than I, “It seems to me that in some times and places, some machines are truly capricious and arbitrary.” Walking…
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Halloween
We turned off our porch light and extinguished the candles in the jack-o-lanterns at about 9:45 Monday night, as the doorbell had stopped ringing and the last “children” were teenagers; but this was the first Halloween since covid that we had trick-or- treaters with costumes and even full face (gruesome) masks. Spirits were buoyant ,…
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Christmas in October
This week I went to the hardware store and, to my surprise as I saw shoppers buying hardware and Halloween paraphernalia, I heard Christmas music being “piped” into the aisles. For a moment it was nostalgic, but then I thought, “How extraordinary! Some two thousand years after the birth of that obscure Jewish baby born…
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The Polar Bear
A story is told about a polar bear in the Bronx Zoo in New York that began to decline. He lost interest in his food, and no longer cared to take a swim in the pool. He gradually refrained from coming out of his enclosure, and was seldom seen. The veterinarian found no illness or…
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Reset For Love
Reset for Love In the 1937 movie “The Amazing Adventure” Cary Grant plays Ernest Bliss, a fabulously wealthy young man in London who is told by his doctor that the only cure for his lethargy and boredom is to “disappear” for a year, and live as a person on a very limited income working for…
Bible at Home 