Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
                
                
                
                    [199].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – ON STONY SHORES
This is a short poem and I do not wish to add to it.  I live close to the beach and the rainforest.  Some beaches in the tropics here have a lot of smooth rocks on them, basalt in origin from past volcanic activity.
In the tropical rainforest you
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [198].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – O FOREST, HOW YOU WEEP IN PAIN
This is a serious poem and I like it very much.  Like most of my poems it comes out of some personal experience.
If this was a musical composition it would be in a minor key.  The summary is, “O forest, how you weep in pain, but
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
                
                
                
                    In the last decade, over 1,000 species of animal were discovered in the Mekong jungles and wetlands of Asia. That averages to a species a week. Among them were never-before-named types of:
•	Spiders
•	Rats
•	Bats
•	Rabbits
•	Snakes
•	Fish
•	Frogs
•	Lizards
•	Plants
•	Birds
...and the list goes
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 2, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A couple was strolling along an ocean side beach and noticed a bottle floating in the water.  They waded out toward it and saw it contained a note.  They eagerly opened the bottle and read the note. It said:
"I’m marooned on a tropical island.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A couple was strolling along an ocean side beach and noticed a bottle floating in the water. They waded out toward it and saw it contained a note. They eagerly opened the bottle and read the note. It said:
"I’m marooned on a tropical island.
                    
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                    WE DON'T NEED A MAP; WE NEED THE GUIDE
In A Slow and Certain Light, Elizabeth Elliot tells of two adventurers who stopped by to see her, all loaded with equipment for the rainforest East of the Andes.  It was the first time they are trekking the forest but they sought no advice, just a few phrases
                    
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                    Contributed by David Selleck on Nov 17, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sulfur Caves
In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sulfur Caves
In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
                
                
                
                    Sulfur Caves
In Southern Mexico lies the Cueva de Villa Luz, or Cave of the Lighted House. As you make your way to the cave you walk through a veritable paradise of tropical birds and lush rain forest. Underwater the cave is fed by 20 underground springs, beautiful watercourses which teem with tiny
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    2002: a busy year for those who help in times of disaster
With barely two weeks left in the year, only six of the 50 states have 
not needed what the American Red Cross calls a large-scale disaster 
response, a new report says. The agency says, however, that 93 percent 
of its responses are to
                    
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                    How would you feel if an animal spoke to you?  The story is told of a man who bought a beautiful, exotic, tropical parrot from a local pet store.  The pet store owner said that the parrot could talk and after demonstrating a few sentences the customer was impressed so he bought him and took him
                    
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                    Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 9, 2025
                
                
                
                    [107].  A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOSPEL REFLECTIONS
This poem begins with reflections them moves to creation, then the death of the Lord followed by salvation and ends with a very pleasant scene in peaceful waters and sunlight.
The inspiration for this was recall of the tropical scenery around me
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    As many of you know, we Vasiceks temporarily housed a pet pig for over 6 months.  So when this Australian story hit the press on Friday, I noted it.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A pony-size pig who held an Australian woman hostage for 10 days inside her home will be removed on Wednesday to a piggery…
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    Recently Julie expressed her desire to go on our Church missions trip to Cambodia. She was excited because we expected that the Government’s stimulus package of $900.00 for each person would cover the cost. All we had to do was put in our tax returns. My $900.00 came as expected, so we had more
                    
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                    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Apr 2, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    You understand the relationship of cause & effect. If that happened, then this results.
When you enter a dark room and flip a light switch you expect the room to brighten.  If you flip that switch and the windows open, you’re pretty surprised because the two aren’t related.
When you get in your
                    
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