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Unknown Purpose
(3-minute read) During World War 2, my father worked at an Oak Ridge, TN, government facility. I don’t know what he did there; he was never allowed to tell us. Since then, we’ve learned that the facility was used as part of the Manhattan Project. Their primary project was to produce the enriched uranium core…
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Taking His Arm
(1-minute read) My wife and I were in Dublin, Ireland, and had the opportunity to attend the Lord Mayor’s Ball to celebrate the Centennial of Dublin. After dinner, a group of us men visited the men’s room. As I exited the men’s room, a friend introduced me to Tony Blair. I had no idea who…
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Man in the Middle
(5-minute read) One day I was talking to my brother Bob on the phone. Bob was living in New York, and I was in Pennsylvania. We started talking about our mom, and I decided to use my desk phone and patch the three of us together in the conversation. As soon as she answered, it…
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Weight
I’m a stress eater. The past few years have been quite stressful for our family, and my weight has ballooned. I decided to go on a diet, and although I was following the diet for several weeks quite strictly, I wasn’t losing any weight. I would lose a little one day and gain it back…
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St Petersburg Church
(3-minute read) Last Saturday night, we were invited to go with our friends Dean and Patti to their church in St. Petersburg, FL. The church had started a new thing in which, once a month during the service, they brought prayer teams to the front of the church and opened it to anyone wanting prayer.…
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The Lord’s Supper or Communion
At sunset on April 5th this year, Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover. On that night during the Passover meal, they will be demonstrating the gospel without realizing it. One of the things that stood out to me most prominently was the bread. At the Last Supper, during a Passover Seder, Jesus instituted what we now…
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Practicing Faith
(2-minute read) Back in the 1970s, I had the opportunity of traveling with an older minister. I went with him to 15 different churches, and at each place, there would be women wanting him to pray for them for something to do with pregnancy. Although the minister never mentioned it during a sermon or gave…
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Rolling Thoughts
(2-minute read) Controlling my thoughts has always been a problem for me. Sometimes I need to concentrate, and my brain does not want to cooperate and brings up things that are not a part of what needs to be considered. Even during the night, when I want to sleep, my brain will suggest that we…
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Love and Friend
Jo and Don White (3-minute read) Before we were married, my wife Jo and I were next-door neighbors. We were dating different people, and we would come home after a date, sit on our little porch and talk about our dates and everything else. After a while, I realized that she had become my best…
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Mom and God
(3-minute read) Years ago, my brother Bob and I decided to visit my mother, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama. I was living in Pennsylvania then, and Bob lived in New York. On the first day there, Bob kept teasing all day, saying that our mother loved me more than him. He would make up numerous…
Walking the path 