Daily Archives: August 3, 2013

THE TONGUE (Fiction)

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Some time ago I wrote a story for a Reader’s Digest competition. The story had to have exactly one hundred words.

Here is the story. It has exactly one hundred words, the computer tells me, but it is not exactly as it was sent off to Reader’s Digest, but very close. Unfortunately I did not keep a copy.

“They have found him dead in THE VALLEY!”

It was one day before Christmas, when the sad news spread like wildfire through the little remote village in the mountains of Switzerland.

Sepp was one of the best mountain climbers in the village, and was missing for quite some time. Now everybody asked the question, “What happened?”

Christmas Day Ida rushed into her neighbor’s house, where she found her gossiping with Lotte and drinking tea with the latest news, “They found a paper in one of Sepp’s pockets on which was written, “The tongue has the power of life and death.”

 

Child Abuse and Homicide

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Child abuse and homicide are on the increase in New Zealand writes our MP at the beginning of his column in one of our local papers. (The Northland Age, Thursday, August 1, 2013)

In the middle of his column he writes about the action, the government is taking to prevent child abuse.

He finishes with this:

“Beyond this it is incumbent on us to create homes, communities and a country that prevents what is totally preventable carnage. WE ALL HAVE A ROLE IN THIS.”

How do we create homes, communities and a country that prevents child abuse and homicide? 

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“Dark providences, never understood before, will then be clearly seen, and all that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the lamb.” – C. H. Spurgeon