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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””

“Unnatural Changes”

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“Unnatural Changes”

I worked for a company back in the 70’s building luxury condominiums in a factory. We would build the floor sections and push them down the track. Then set the prefab walls on them and push them down the track again. Next, we put all of the appliances in and push again, fabricate the roof and so on. When they came out of the building, they were finished. I was in charge of a large number of workers. The assembly line was long and spread out. I had so many people working up and down the line that I couldn’t keep track of them. Well, it was easy to congregate, hide and talk. A lot of the people were young and inexperienced and the job didn’t pay a lot. But, production had to be kept up. I couldn’t see them all and this made it difficult. My brother Charlie was a welder in the jigs and fixture department, so I had him build me an office on a 12 foot tower. Problem solved, I could now see over my whole department. I now had an overview. This didn’t set well with my workers, but it sure kept production up. I knew what natural production should look like, so I always looked for unnatural things that slowed down production. There were always those few people that brought unnatural changes in. My job as an overseer, was to have the know-how to build and keep production up. Unnatural changes can damage a business, a family or a nation. Continue reading ““Unnatural Changes””

“A Boat or An Ark”

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     “A Boat or an Ark”

When I was young, my brothers and I loved boats. We liked riding in them, looking at them and fishing from them. Of course we couldn’t afford one, so we built some. We made one out of an old suitcase, put it in the 4’ fish pond and it sunk. Than we made one out of 1×4 pine flooring, put it in Gunnerson creek and it sunk. We helped our Daddy some, building a houseboat, and it sunk. Continue reading ““A Boat or An Ark””

“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””

Revelation-Finding our way

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“Revelation”
Finding our way

A revelation is a word, a phrase or a vision. All come unexpected. They are not from the mind, they come from the spirit. The makeup of man is; the outer man which is the body, the inner man, which is the soul, the mind, will, and emotions and then there is the spirit. The organ that makes us aware of God is the spirit. Only in the spirit can we hear and really know Him. Our bodies and soul are rejuvenated through baptism in repentance and water. Only baptism of the spirit can rejuvenate our spirit to know the person God. Spirit bears witness to spirit. Our communication with God is through the spirit. We worship God in spirit and truth. The word truth means, reality or real. Continue reading “Revelation-Finding our way”

Seeing The Unseen

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Seeing The Unseen
An Awakening

The most excited people I know are those who have seen what they couldn’t see. We can read about God and his ways and hear about Him from different preachers. We can have great knowledge of Him and not really see and know Him the way He really is. I hear those many voices saying, He is this way or He is that way. So, how do we really know who and how He really is? Continue reading “Seeing The Unseen”