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Guttersnipe
In a dream one night having laid down a volume of Dickens, Sympathetic, almost romantic stroll through London of yesteryear. Charles is walking beside us, narrating, ruminating, gently nudging My conscience; I cannot speak for yours. We walk. We walk… Continue reading
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I Want to See Again Believing Is Seeing Mark 10:46-52 “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” – Erasmus What is in a name? They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and… Continue reading
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Spoken
"El Elohim, YHWH has spoken … " מזמור לאסף אלאלהים יהוה דברויקרא־ארץממזרח־שמשעד־מבאו׃ "The Lord, the God of gods, has spoken; he has called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting."– Psalm 50:1 El, who can just… Continue reading
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Believing Is Seeing
Your Faith Has Made You Well "And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way." – Mark 10:52 What sort of faith can… Continue reading
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Southern Horrors by Ida B. Wells
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases By Ida B. Wells-Barnett PREFACE The greater part of what is contained in these pages was published in the New York Age June 25, 1892, in explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites… Continue reading
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Come, Sinners; You Are Welcome
Photo by Ahmet Kurt on Unsplash You clean up, fix up, or straighten up and it goes well for a while and then … you relapse into a worse state than before. There is a futility in constantly cleaning up… Continue reading
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Hear and Obey
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. – Luke 11:28 Jesus could handle controversy. He had just demonstrated that He could do so. He could handle direct attack. Now He… Continue reading
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Joyful noise- Man in the mirror I Hate Truth … sometimes. Sometimes I hate truth when it hurts and when it indicts me Sometimes But only the way a kid hates his parents for a flash of a moment when… Continue reading
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October 24 in the History of Public Thinking and Acting
Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine – Own work History. I read it every day. I take, at least, a shallow dive into the history of events on the day of the month I am experiencing, looking back over the… Continue reading
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Close and Reliable – God Is Near – Psalm 119-51 Continue reading