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We make an appointment and our watch stops.
We go fishing and the only things we catch is a bad cold in a rainstorm.
The inevitable is always with us, even though it is not always kind. It is why I pray often, “Lord, if I cannot like it, let me learn from it. At least, then it will not be a total waste of time.”
One day I will die, but I am not afraid because I will but die to live again. Too often I sin, yet every time God forgives me, and works with me to help me sin less often. If God be for me, who can be against me. I believe that. Just as I believe that----
Once there was an oyster whose story now I tell,
And about a grain of sand that worked beneath his shell.
Just one little grain, but oh such pain for yes,
Oysters have feelings, even though they’re so plain.
This oyster, however, didn’t curse the heavens for such a deplorable state.
Nor berate the government, or call for an election,
Or demand the sea give him immediate protection.
No, he just lay down on a rocky shelf
And talked again and again to his irritated self.
Saying, “If I cannot remove it, I’ll try to improve it.”
Then the years rolled by, as years always do,
And he came to his ultimate destiny in a restaurant stew;
And in place of the sand that had bothered him so
Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
The tale you have heard has a moral, isn’t it grand
wonderful things oysters can do with only a morsel of sand.
What couldn’t we do to make life better,
If we’d only begin with all the things
that get under our skin.
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Into this fray, a political Lincoln, a military Lincoln and a spiritual Lincoln moved toward monumental decisions.
Struggling for truth, sometimes befuddled by reality, this man who knew his Bible as well as some preachers would often be asked if he thought God was on the side of the North.
His reply always remained the same. “My concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God’s side.”9 It would be difficult to place too much emphasis on the spiritual undergirdings he brought to every decision.
This child of the wilderness had had no city lights to mute the stars or compete with moonlight.
He had watched his own growing, side by side with all the other growing things in field and forest. It seemed natural to him to ponder that human life must be more of mind, and soul a reality.
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