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Croesus, My Country
Croesus, My Country Croesus stumbled and laid back a war torn skin for public autopsy. With bruises bested by emotional welts too deep to be visible, he wept. In the eye of the cyclone, the earth’s erratic heartbeat was his heart; the blood drenching the soil was his blood and the screams of the mothers…
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A Touch Of Grace . . .
June 14, 2016 Tuesday 5 a.m. What is Grace? Grace is a benevolent gesture bestowed to relieve a yearning, a burden shadowing a heart that is struggling for relief. It is a knowledge, an insight given to be applied to oneself to help understand and give this relief to someone yearning for answers, …
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To Embrace The Essence. . . .
To Embrace The Essence He was a young man when he went up to the top of the mountain and a very old man when he came down. What he saw we will always wonder but how close was he when he embraced the essence of God. It was no mean feat we…
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Answers That Know The Questions To Ask
The Lady Of The Blue Cloths Can we go today, he asked? Perplexed, I looked at him and wondered now where since most of the errands were done that we considered a must. Soon the holidays would be upon us. To the lady with the blue cloths, he said. To the lady who knows things. …
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Thanksgiving
How Much Of A Difference It was morning though the night still hung heavy, the clouds hovered, the sun unable to rise. The children gathered for breakfast, morose, unhappy and angry, heavy still with sleep. Mother looked with unhappy eyes and father, already delayed flew out the door. What could she plan for…
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The Uncovering
PHILIP FRAMED THE MYSTERY Genesis 1.26 Then God said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air and over the cattle , and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that…
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Many Truths
Many Truths I once heard an elder say that people only know what it is you let them know. I gasped, because I thought she actually believes this. She still believes that her thoughts are private and that secrets are truly secrets. She does not know that privacy of thought is the last illusion. That…
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Argument With Crossed Signals
Another Argument with Crossed Signals There was a maxim often repeated when I was growing up that one never ‘tempts the gods.’ My ‘sense of’ justice and unfairness peaked early for me for which I was punished. When I was a child, I was puzzled that the big people did not take issue with this…
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Suffer The Little Child
The Teacher Speaks. . . . Any human action which must delve into its past for a pattern for progression is bound to fail. There must of needs be new attitudes, new forms of behavior that speaks to the new man and new times. A reaching back to the cradle for behavior, for mannerisms befitting…
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You Cannot Teach Thirsty. . . .
The Teacher Speaks. . . . you cannot make a horse drink when it is not thirsty. You cannot do it. Only when the thirst is there will the horse or the person or the being know to drink to satiate. But you cannot teach thirsty. You cannot teach learning. You cannot teach hunger. You…