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ANGELS: celestial beings who serve God

December 19, 2012

Over the past week there have been numerous comments from people reflecting on the tragedy in Connecticut which have referred to the role of angels.  For the most part, grieving people have said that the 20 children gunned down in their classrooms have “gone to Heaven to be angels.“  It is a convenient idea which [...]

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PRAYER: a spiritual communion with God

May 31, 2012

Today someone told me that he prays for me every day. He is a person I respect and consider one of the finest people I have ever known, so I was not immediately put off by his comment.   There have been times when people have said that to me and I have bristled or curdled, [...]

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TAKE A KNEE: a public gesture of bowing in prayer

January 11, 2012

The story rage in NFL football over the past several weeks has not been brutal defeats of reigning teams or even scandalous reports of inappropriate behavior by coaches.  To the contrary, the media has been focused on one man, Tim Tebow, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos.  And it’s not even his playing that has [...]

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GODSEND: a person or thing that comes unexpectedly but is particularly welcome

December 14, 2010

My friend, Newport Betty, sent along some nice comments to a recent blog posting and included the word godsend in one of them.  She indicated that it would be an interesting word to pursue, and I agreed. The World English Dictionary points out that in its earliest days the term was directly related to God [...]

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SPARED: to deal gently or leniently with; show consideration for

December 9, 2010

I was commenting on the fact that so far we have been spared the kind of snowy winter being experienced in Upstate New York when it occurred to me that the word spared is kind of interesting.  It is one of those words we take for granted because we use it so much.  But when [...]

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MIRACLE: an event realized, despite it being out of the realm of expectation

October 13, 2010

Earlier this week I had indicated that it was my dream to know that the 33 miners trapped in a copper/gold mine in Chile were rescued.  I knew it was a slim possibility, and that there were experts working hard to make it happen.   But it had never been done before, and the risks involved [...]

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PANOPTICON: a circular prison, giving the guards maximum visual observance of prisoners

October 8, 2010

The idea of constructing a prison in such a way that one, lone guard has 360 degree observation of the entire population makes all kinds of sense.  I’m kind of squeamish about it being only one guard; maybe there could be two or three just in case.  But there’s no question that it minimizes the [...]

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