There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. — Ecclesiastes 3:1 It’s summertime here in New England and the smell of BBQs wafts through the air. It’s a nice reprieve from the harsh winters we often endure. So go the seasons. By the end of the summer, […]
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At precisely twelve noon on September 16, 1893 a cannon’s boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw. Carried by all kinds of transportation – horses, wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot – an estimated 100,000 raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the
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In my final years of playing organized baseball, I was the leadoff hitter, which means that I was the first batter up to the plate. My job was to get on base. Physically, I was a “late bloomer”, standing around 5’4” tall and weighing somewhere in the 130 lbs. range. When I’d take a pitch, I’d
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Character: the way someone thinks, feels, and behaves : someone’s personalityIntegrity: the quality of being honest and fair — Merriam-Webster People sometimes say things like, “Oh, that man right there…he’s a man of character and integrity!” And the typical context for such an accolade is the speaker giving someone else their own stamp of approval,
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Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it; and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah [Jesus Christ], the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard
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Leaven — Merriam-Webster.com I recall the first time I read of leaven in the Bible and was like, “Huh? What’s leaven?” Like anything in scripture, there’s always a context that we must understand before we can gather the fullness of its meaning. When Jesus, for example, used the term, it would’ve resonated immediately with His contemporaries. “He
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The assistant coach penciled in “K”, for strikeout, on the scorecard… “C’mon, Johnny…damnit!!!” The assistant coach’s shoulders sagged as Johnny’s father, the head coach, threw his hat onto the cinder in front of the little league dugout, creating a little dust storm near his feet. The degrading, tyrannical speech continued publicly, as Johnny slipped by his
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He made the moon for the seasons; The sun knows the place of its setting. You appoint darkness and it becomes night, In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about. The young lions roar after their prey And seek their food from God. When the sun rises they withdraw And lie down in their dens. Man goes forth to his work And
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“Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.” — Jem Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Whether you agree with His choices or
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