Tag: parables
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Modern day parables: a JEWEL among JEWELS
This is a story about my mother, whose birthday it is today. Anytime I go home back in Mississippi, my mother and father commit them self’s to filling my car with as much stuff as possible. Clothes, shoes, jewelry, food—you name it, it gets jammed into my Cadillac XTS. I have always been a master…
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The Folly of Faking It
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:1-2 I had this student who mastered the art of looking busy. You rarely saw him…
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A Tree Asked A River
It is always such a pleasure to find beautifully written things. This is one! Find your way to Frank Solanki’s page. A tree asked a river“How beautiful it must beTo travel to different placesTell me what do you see?Is the sun as generousAnd bright as he is here?” “… A Tree Asked A River http://franksolanki.com/2022/07/16/a-tree-asked-a-river/
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Don’t Abort The Process
Chrysalis to Completion. Butterfly caterpillars create something called a “Chrysalis” – a hardened exoskeleton that protects it whilst it changes. It’s cellular structure has already prepared it for the changes to come, and once the process has ended successfully? You have a butterfly! But if you cut the chrysalis open before the transformation is complete?…