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ISAIAH 59:2,3,4,8 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. The way of peace, they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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THREE SOCKS 595 The other morning, after shaving and brushing my teeth, I came back to the bedroom to change from pajamas to school clothes. After getting three cats and one dogs off of them (the clothes), I noticed that, in addition to the pants, shirt and handkerchief, there were...three socks. I went to the top of the stairs and hollered to my wife, Donna, "How come you gave me three socks?" "I thought you might need an extra one for the foot that you've been accused of putting in your mouth," she replied. Needless to say, my wife didn't get any allowance that week. (Just kidding!) (Written on March 11,1979 with revisions on August 10,2019) THE SUN COMES UP IN THE MORN 581 "Always again," wrote Richard L. Evans, "there is another day. Always, eternally, there is hope and faith...and tomorrow morning." Regardless of the clouds banked against us Whether things go all right or all wrong We have this witness to bear The sun still comes up in the morning The sun comes up in the morn Even if our day has been discouraging And our paths have been strew with stones This is the truth we love to share The sun still comes up in the morning The sun comes up in the morn So, if today's thunder has muffled our song And shaken our soul and rattled our bones With you we rejoice and with you declare The sun still comes up in the morning The sun comes up in the morn (Written on January 30, 1979) ISAIAH 58:13,14 If thou turn [not] away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shall honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words... Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it NO BILLS! 594 Wow! The things some people do just utterly amazes us at times. We just finished reading about Dr. Minnie Cohen, of Toronto, Canada, who, since 1922, has treated thousands of patients...and has never sent a bill to any of them! Over the long haul, humanity has gotten stuck with some pretty bad names, many of them deserved. But, it's the Minnie Cohens of the world who continually inspire us to be better and to do better. Thanks, Doctor Cohen for touching our lives as you have. (Written on March 4, 1979)
ISAIAH 58:9,10,1,12 Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer Thou shalt cry and he shall say Here I am If thou take away from the midst of thee, the yoke, the putting forth of the finger of scorn, [while] speaking vanity And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul Then shalt thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noonday And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thou soul in drought and make fat thy bones And thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not And they that shall be of thee shall build [again]the old waste places Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations And thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach The restorer of paths to dwell in ISAIAH 58:9,10,1,12 Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer Thou shalt cry and he shall say Here I am If thou take away from the midst of thee, the yoke, the putting forth of the finger of scorn, and [while] speaking vanity And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul Then shalt thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noonday And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thou soul in drought and make fat thy bones And thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not And they that shall be of thee build the old waste places Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations And thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach The restorer of paths to dwell in THE BREEZE, THE BREEZE The breeze, the breeze rustles through the trees Making soft harpish sounds as it moves around the leaves, turned green So cool, so calm, so neat, bringing solace through the days, into the night The breeze, the breeze oh, what a delight (Written on Sunday morning, July 28, 2019) HELLO, I'M HOME 591 Did you read where President Carter recently attended the National Prayer Breakfast, and all but one person, Miss Lillian, his mother, rose to their feet as he entered the banquet hall? We can certainly sympathize with Mr. Carter in this situation, for we often encounter similar circumstances. Here's how it goes at the end of our workday... "Hello, everybody, I'm home." (Silence) "Hey, anybody home?" (More silence...The passages of the first century catacombs were never quieter than the halls of my home.) I enter the living room...all eyes are glued to the TV. Then it hits me... All the kids are stone deaf when a good television receiver is placed within six inches of their eyeballs and the volume is turned up extra loud. Then I go into the kitchen... "Honey, I'm home." "Shhhh! I'll be with you in minute." Can't you see I'm on the phone?" "You wouldn't treat me this way, If I were the President of the United States." "O really...Come on now, be serious." "Now, I ask you, Jimmy, whatever happened to the good old days...There's just no respect any more." (Written on February 22, 1979) |
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