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A stone presented a formidable problem that first resurrection morning. Massive and threatening, it blocked the entrance to Jesus’ tomb for the women needing to anoint His body. “Who will move it for us?” they puzzled–but found no answer. When they arrived at the garden, however, astonishment gripped their hearts. The stone had already been set [...] It’s been a year since I sent out one of my regular newsletters, so I thought I might give you a brief update as several have inquired about how I’m doing. My ability to concentrate on “creative” sorts of things is slowly returning back to more of a “normal” state. I do understand that the loss [...] “I’d like to live my life over again,” some assert, “if I could just know what I know now.” Not me! Nevertheless, I’ve purposely relived a few brief hours this past week through a number of old video tapes I’m trying to convert to more durable DVD. We loved our Jenny intensely in life, but the films [...] Sunday, December 31, 1995. The big backpacking trip is over. It was exhausting, and I am still weary and sore. We rose at 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning and got an early start. Unanticipated logistics in shuttling cars, however, made us almost two hours late in getting on the trail. This put us way behind on time [...] The news jolted me into another world–a world of long-forgotten uncertainty and anxiety. Dormant memories emerged as ghastly specters. The news that two sets of friends have discovered life-threatening health problems with their children rewound my mind 28 years to our daughter Jenny's birth. Suspecting nothing, we hardly raised an eyebrow when the doctor reported "complications" [...] We have just returned from a hiking trip to the Leatherwood wilderness area. Temperatures were unseasonably warm for January–even record highs. It never got below 40 at night, and the temperatures during the days got up into the 70's. We took far too many clothes, thinking that it would be much cooler. I don't know how [...] In Spring, when sunlight gently falls This Spring, on such a wistful day Each Spring, that blooming rose's pow'r |
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