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The Milky Way
One night this winter I stood on a deck over-looking Possum Kingdom Lake, and looked up to see a sky that had almost disappeared behind the density of stars in constellations above and apparently around me. For the first time I felt as if I were truly in the midst of the Milky Way galaxy,…
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The Cornerstone
In 1558 when twenty-five year old Princess Elizabeth Tudor was confined to house arrest by her half sister Mary, Elizabeth was sitting one day out doors reading a book when she was approached by a group of riders who were men of importance at court in London. She didn’t know if they would require her…
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Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling is the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled fifteen year old son of a railroad baron. The boy falls overboard from an ocean liner on his way to Europe with his mother. Unknown to anyone on the liner, Harvey is picked up alive by a nearby fishing boat…
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A Red-Headed God
My sister Nancy has a buoyant and friendly personality. Until recently she also had bright red hair so that she stood out in a group. When she was first married she taught second grade in the public school. One day in October while she was teaching, her principal entered the room with a red-headed second…
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What Surprises Jesus
In the spring of Stephanie’s junior year in high school when she was a villager in “Brigadoon”, a few senior football players were also villagers. They didn’t have lines to speak, but they sang and danced. One day Stephanie told me that back stage, before the “villagers” went on, she heard Brad, a senior varsity…
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Finding St. Augustine
On the walls of the cafeteria in the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, hang a collection of mosaics taken from a church or churches in Syria. They were made in about the year 400, the same year that Saint Augustine was alive and preaching in Carthage. I like the lunches at the Kimbell, but even…
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