Contributed by Betty Johnson on Aug 18, 2008
                
                
                
                    GET DOWN IN THE DITCHES
A few years ago when I had my motorcycle accident and ended up in a ditch full of dirt, I was lost in the same way the Bible uses the world "lost." I could not get out of that ditch, even though every fiber of my being wanted to. My HEART wanted to. My spirit wanted to.
                    
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                    Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Feb 12, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There once was a brier growing in a ditch when a gardener came along with his spade and dug it up.  He dug around it and gently lifted it out of the ground, bringing the brier to ask itself, “What is he doing?  Doesn’t he know I’m a worthless brier?”  But the gardener took it and placed it in his
                    
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                    Introduction: Ask any veteran or anyone who served in the military for the strangest duty they ever performed and you may get some interesting replies! The soldiers in this story were asked (!) to put down their swords and take up some shovels in order to dig a lot of ditches!
This story also has
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 20, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TWO MILES OF DITCH
I was headed home late from a wedding reception and had about a two hour drive when a friend said to me, "Remember that for every mile you drive there are two miles of ditch". 
I was in the car before that really sunk in, and then it hit me, for every path we walk, there are
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Glass on Nov 2, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ONLY ONE PULLING
A guy drives into a ditch, but luckily, a farmer is there to help. He hitches his horse, Buddy, up to the car and yells, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy doesn’t move.
 
"Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy doesn’t budge. 
"Pull, Coco, pull!" Nothing. 
Then the farmer says, "Pull, Buddy,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Working with Buddy:
An out-of-towner drove his car into a ditch in a desolated area.  Luckily, a local farmer came to help with his big strong horse named Buddy.
He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy didn’t move.
Then the farmer hollered, "Pull, Buster, pull!"
                    
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                    Contributed by Patrick Mccosh on Jul 23, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was preparing his breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Anover, OH home.  He knew that downstream the ditch disappeared with a roar underneath a road and then emptied into the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sean Lester on Jan 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    SULLENBURGER: WHAT MAKES A HERO?
What makes a person a hero?  A year ago, Chesley Sullenberger ditched his airplane into the Hudson River and saved the lives of all 150 of his passengers when both engines were knocked out by a flock of geese.  It was the first time that a major airliner was
                    
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