In the budding of a greening spring, bringing life and color to these naked woods, a lot of decay happens. We counted five dead deer on the way to church. Vultures are having a feast. Sure, death scares me somewhat. But it is the curse of decay that I find most terrifying. Mine in particular. […]
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Have you, like me, noticed how very popular the emblem of the cross is in jewelry and clothing? Both men and women wear crosses around their necks, fingers, waists, and wrists. Crosses adorn everything from shirts to mugs. They are so popular in fact that some who sport the cross have no idea what it […]
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“There is certainly a lot of uncertainty,” the television news commentator reported. Well…that pretty much sums up life, doesn’t it? The reporter went on to elaborate on his statement, all the while sounding quite certain about his uncertainty. Certainly, we all know, there is uncertainty. Not just now. Not just us. Not just because of […]
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We started married life in an upstairs apartment of a small house in a small town. Below us lived our landlady and her son. I always heard her puttering about in the kitchen. She puttered and muttered in German, which is a whole other story. Our first apartment wasn’t chic, but we were just happy […]
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