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                    A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire.  Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane.  Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting.  When he arrived at
                    
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                    During Super Bowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker, whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years.
Looking like Tom Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the commercial goes up to the door of a
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hutto on Jan 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Years ago, my youngest daughter, Marilyn, and I went shopping for Connie. It’s hard. You wives, it’s hard for a man to shop for his wife because we don’t know what you want, and we don’t want to get that for you, anyway.
But Marilyn and I thought we had found the perfect gift: a nightgown. You can
                    
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                    Dear God, So far today I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped, I haven’t lost my temper, I haven’t been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. I’m very thankful for that. But in a few minutes, God, I’m going to get
                    
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                    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
                
                
                
                    God tells us in II Co 6:14-16a "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.”  Did He mean it?
"Yes, but I’m going to date him and marry him and lead him to the Lord."  Tell me one person for whom that has happened and I’ll find you 20 where it didn’t.  "Yes, but I know someone who did it and he
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
                
                
                
                    I can’t say I have ever felt afraid of God, but I have felt the awe of His presence, and I have been overcome by a sense of His majesty. I remember standing out on a mound of earth out on a property and looking up at the stars. Away from the city, the stars seem so much brighter, and I cried out to
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 14, 2025
                
                
                
                    [062A].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DOES SUFFERING CANCEL OUT A GOD OF LOVE?
THE POEM AS IT IS WILL NOT FIT IN THE ILLUSTRATION SPACE AVAILABLE.  I HAVE HAD TO SPLIT IT INTO THREE PARTS.  THIS IS THE FIRST PART
PART 1
INTRODUCTION TO THIS POEM
This is my most serious poem because it addresses
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 14, 2025
                
                
                
                    
[062C].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DOES SUFFERING CANCEL OUT A GOD OF LOVE?
THE POEM AS IT IS WILL NOT FIT IN THE ILLUSTRATION SPACE AVAILABLE.  I HAVE HAD TO SPLIT IT INTO THREE PARTS.  THIS IS THE THIRD PART.
THE INTRODUCTION FOR THE POEM IS IN PART 1.
PART 3
SECTION C - PART 1  (GOD
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 27, 2025
                
                
                
                    Background on Psalm 37 - How to Have God's Peace in Horrible Times
Anyone who has read a good portion of God's Word knows that there are a lot of prayers provided for us in the Bible. The Dake Annotated Reference Bible lists 222 different prayers in the Bible: 176 prayers in the Old
                    
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                    "He gives more grace when the burdens grow greater.
He sends more strength when the labors increase,
To added affliction He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed 'ere the day is half
                    
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                    Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When the now-famous poet Elizabeth Barrett became the wife of Robert Browning, her parents disowned her because they disapproved of the marriage.  Their daughter Elizabeth, however, wrote almost every week, telling them that she loved them and longed for a reconciliation.  After 10 years, she
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 19, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "In late 18th century Poland, the Kaiser’s forces were burning all the Jewish villages. One village had been burned and nothing was left standing. As the sun came up the next morning an old Jewish gentlemen pounded a few boards together, made a sellers stall and opened it up for business. A young
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 30, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Mankind has been trying to get satisfaction for an inner longing.  Someone put it in terms of our having a "God-shaped gap" in our make-up.  The famous poet, Lord Byron, described his experience vividly: he "Drank every cup of joy, drank early, deeply drank, drank draughts which common millions
                    
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                    Contributed by Wayne Burnett on Jan 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Life’s a little thing! Robert Browning once wrote. But a little thing can mean a life. Even two lives. How well I  remember. Two years ago in downtown Denver my friend, Scott Reasoner, and I saw something tiny and insignificant change the world, but no one else even seemed to notice.  It was one of
                    
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