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“Fences”

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“Fences”

My wife and I used to live in south Alabama. We owned ten acres of land. We had chickens and some sheep. Chickens have natural enemies and so do sheep. Chickens seem to enjoy staying close to the house when we let them out to feed. Although they have to watch out for hawks. Their house is protected at night with fences around it to keep out raccoons and opossums that love southern fried chicken. The sheep have free reign to graze. Sheep have natural enemies also, such as dogs and coyotes. Our property had legal boundaries, of course the sheep don’t care where they start or stop. So we put fences around it. Now some of the sheep were perfectly fine with that, but a few were not. I spent a lot of time cultivating the fields, to provide fresh grass for them. To my surprise, that was not good enough for some. Continue reading ““Fences””

“Calling in the Slaves”

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“Calling in the Slaves”

 

After all these years I still have a vivid picture within myself, of 1963 slavery. I was driving through the middle of a prominent state. Most of that area is flat land as far as you could see. I looked to my right and could see a group of people, horses and wagons all in single file. They were young, middle aged, white haired old folks, women and children. They were bringing in the cotton after a hard day’s work. This may sound like a story back in the eighteen hundreds, but it wasn’t. We were visiting some relatives there. As we drove down through the old town area there were many black people sitting out front of the company store. They worked all day for the farm owner and shopped in the farm owner’s store in the evening. I know they were not called slaves in that day, but it sure had the characteristics of it. I wondered what it would be like to be a slave. I would soon find out. Continue reading ““Calling in the Slaves””

“Inside Out”

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“Inside Out”

Reaching our full potential

            I was standing by a concrete wall, thinking about getting older and that one day I would be leaving this earth. As I glanced toward the ground, I saw a small blueish white flower it was about five inches tall and all alone. As I looked at it I said, “I will miss that.” Then God spoke in my spirit and said, “That little flower will be ten times taller and ten times more beautiful in heaven”. As I thought about that, I could just see fields and fields of head high flowers exactly like that little flower. Continue reading ““Inside Out””

The Hewer And The Polisher

beautiful-garden-pond-samplesMy creation is polluted with sin, as a pond full of green algae, even a frog couldn’t live in it. In heaven there is no sin at all, where everything is many times more beautiful, clean and full of life. It was my plan for the earth to be this way also.

As the pond, without fresh water, stagnates; when fresh water begins to flow into it, it comes to life.

As with natural stone, it appears unsightly to man. He sets out to hew and polish it to make it beautiful. He also attempts to hew and polish himself due to his dissatisfaction with his appearance, personality, monetary state, spiritual state and such. Continue reading “The Hewer And The Polisher”