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                    A BOY WAITS FOR THE BUS
There's an old story of the boy who stood on a sidewalk, waiting on a bus. A man walking by spotted the boy, and gave him some gentle instruction. "Son," he said, "if you're waiting on the bus, you need to move to the street corner. That's where the bus stops for
                    
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                    AN OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF AN INWARD EXPERIENCE
David Ring was born with cerebral palsy.  He had complications at birth and he was technically dead for 18 minutes after delivery.  No oxygen reached his brain and a portion was permanently damaged.
His family’s story was catastrophic – his father had
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    The Carpet
True story, hard to believe, but true. We had friends at seminary who got a house sitting job back home in Ontario, Canada. It was a great gig, free housing for a whole summer. It was just like any other house sitting job except for one detail – the carpeting. They were instructed that,
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 11, 2007
                
                
                
                    "It is Well with My Soul" is one of my much loved hymns. I don’t know if you might be familiar with the chronicle behind it or not, but the man who authored the lyrics of this beautiful hymn lost his whole family at sea. Horatio Spafford, a successful businessman, had dispatched his family ahead of
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    At Liberty University this summer, I shared an apartment with a Navy chaplain who was taking the same course I was.  He is assigned to a Marine battalion, and had recently come back from Iraq.  One of the many things he did was have prayer with his men before they went out on patrol.  I asked, “Did
                    
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                    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
                
                
                
                    DANCING WITH GOD
One of my very favorite stories is told by Gertrud Mueller Nelson in To Dance with God: Family Ritual and Community Celebration.  It’s the first thing she says at the beginning of Chapter 1:
"Some years ago, I spent an afternoon caught up in a piece of sewing I was doing.  The
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
                
                
                
                    The Jewish teachings echo Peter’s words…The Talmud says {Sepher Musar apud Drus. de Quaesitis, Ep. 54. & in loc.}, "the wife ought to take care of the family, to educate her children, to serve and minister to her husband in all things, "calling him her own lord"; which is
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 12, 2009
                
                
                
                    GENTILES V. JEWS
It is said that a prominent rabbi, when asked why God created so many Gentiles, replied, "So there might be fuel enough for the fires of hell." 
It was unlawful for a Jew to help a Gentile who was giving birth, thus helping to bring another Gentile into the world. If a Jew
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 10, 2010
                
                
                
                    ADOPTED BY GRACE
I have three daughters. Oh the cats that we took from the pound.  They are in cat heaven!  But they could have been left at the pound, except that we DECIDED to take them because we WANTED to love them.  There was nothing those kittens could do to make me love them! 
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 30, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE MEASURE OF GOD'S WORD
The Word of God is the measure of our lives. Imagine different teams of men building a house with everyone measuring by their foot, not tape measure. The carpentry, flooring, coverings, windows and doors would be a mess. It simply would not come together. That's why we
                    
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