The Eagle & Child

Wow.  I’m not sure how this woman (Linda at Kingdom Grace) got into my head and then took what she found there and made it so beautiful and succint: This might be kind of quirky, but I really am enamored with this topic.  For over a year now,  it has been like a shiny object [...]

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Just a thought I had as I was ruminating on these words of Jesus: “Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which people may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of [...]

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A couple of years ago, I pondered the meaning of physical death in terms of the predicted result of eating the forbidden fruit. Given that in the Genesis story Adam and Eve lived on several centuries after eating the fruit, the prediction seemed wrong unless it was spiritual death of which God was speaking. Bob [...]

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Well, they were sparrows. Early Sunday morning I was out on our deck and I watched Mama and Papa Sparrow taking turns flying off for food and watching over the back yard;  I saw them dart in and out of the Virginia creeper. Definitely sparrows. Sunday evening, Dixie and the kids watched the little sparrow [...]

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Dixie’s granny’s funeral is tomorrow morning.  Tonight, 40 descendants (and spouses) of Granny and Grandpa, including 12 children under age 14, converged upon one of the local family dwellings.  Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all gathered for a few hours of wonderful chaos.  People eating and talking in the living room, in the dining room, in [...]

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