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Golden Nugget
“Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? – Lamentations 3:38
That is a question and what is YOUR answer?
THE TONGUE (Fiction)
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.”
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HARAKEKE – FLAX
“Der Mann, der den Berg abtrug, war derselbe, der damit angefangen hatte, kleine Steine wegzutragen …” – Chinesische Weisheit
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HARAKEKE – FLAX
“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” – D. L. Moody
Child Abuse and Homicide
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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HARAKEKE – FLAX
“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
“Come Dine With Me”
“Come Dine With Me” and “MasterChef Australia” are two TV programmes here in New Zealand, where I live.
FOOD FOR THE BODY
(We don’t have TV in our home, but there is a TV in the coffee shop, where I go for coffee, and sometimes you can see people eating in the coffee shop and on TV.)
Reading today about Christoph Blumhard reminds me of the two TV programmes.
Christoph Blumhard lived in Germany from 1842 – 1919 and was not only a clergyman but also the leader of a well known place for the needy (Bad Boll).
And this is what struck me when I read his story:
Not only his sermons, but also his devotions in his home for the needy were daily nourishing meals (In German: “bot er in kraeftiger Auslegung Gottes Wort als taegliche SPEISE dar, …”) and the Lord confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
I would have liked to dine at his table!
FOOD FOR THE SOUL