When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wished, but when you get old you’ll have to stretch out your hands while someone else dresses you and takes you where you don’t want to go. John 21:18
2/3 of all church plants fail within the first year. That's why we switched to plastic ones. Don't have to water them.
Ringwald was in fact 16 when she did sixteen candles, 17 for the breakfast club and 18 for pretty in pink. steinfeld, on the other hand, at twenty is probably exactly right for a 2016 movie about a seventeen-year old, for after all twenty is the new seventeen. And so is 21, and 22, and so on.
What has darby done for us lately? Well, she got old and quit playing teen roles.
social media: where any intersection with the truth is brief and accidental.
Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Ephraim stomped his feet several times then dragged the soles of his boots, first the left, then the right, across the bootscaper embedded in the edge of the concrete slab. He turned each foot in turn to check the result. Satisfied, he pushed the backdoor open and stepped into the mudroom.
Ephraim shrugged out of his heavy wool-lined canvas jacket and hung it on a hook. The red and black checked cap he whapped atop the jacket. Wearily he sat on the wooden stool and removed his boots.
Ephraim was not a happy man. He had worked through long night hours the barn lighted by only a single kerosene lamp trying to help Lucy, his favorite milk cow, deliver her calf. Though he had twisted, turned, pulled and struggled the infant animal his efforts were for nought. It never drew a breath despite Ephraim's near-frantic efforts to bring it to life. Worse, the man was not certain that the cow would survive her ordeal though he had stayed with her until the light of dawn.
(finis-- for now)
3 comments:
When I read that 2/3 of all church plants fail within the first year, I was prepared to read something profound. And that's what happened. These sticky notes have been fun. Thanks.
Chuck, profundity promoted here. Thank you.
Want more of Ephraim's story, of course
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