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Cigar Box Bands
A lidless cardboard cigar box and a fistful of rubber bands became a homemade guitar when I wrapped the open box in one rubber band, then another. The craftsmanship and skill came in arranging the rubber bands in just the right order of width and tension for plucking a scale without crushing the open box.…
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Crying Out
“They cried out in a loud voice, ‘Salvation is from our God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb!’” (Revelation 7:10, LH)
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Grid Riddance
The tiller’s steel teeth bit into the soil, chewing across the garden in rows like teeth biting off kernels on a buttery cob or like the steel bits of an old Smith-Corona typing letters in neat rows across a blank page. What is it about us, or perhaps about our tools, that we impose ranks…
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Like Figs
“The stars in the sky fell crashing to earth like figs shaken loose by a mighty wind.” (Revelation 6:13, LH)
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Coffee Cans
Rectangular labels with red borders and white field bore hand-lettered notes–nails, screws, bolts. Dad stuck them to coffee cans, full one-pound blue tin cans rinsed free of their Maxwell House residue. Heavy with hardware, the bits of shaped and purposeful steel that reproduced like workbench dust bunnies, the cans stood in a row on the…
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A Worthy Life
“I plead with you, as a prisoner for the Lord, to live a life worthy of the calling you have received, with perfect humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another lovingly.” (Ephesians 4:1-2, LH)
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No Signs Along the Way
SW 80th Ct W Old Cheney Rd 6262 No Hunting Caution Buried Cable Before digging in this vicinity please call telephone company Warning Underground Cable Call Collect 402 477 0547 Lincoln Telephone No Hunting No Hunting No Hunting or Trespassing STOP Warning Up to $500 fine and imprisonment for removing or tampering with this sign…
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Worthy
“O Lord our God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power! For you have created all things; by your will they came to be and were made!” (Revelation 4:11, LH)
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Patient Waiting
The black wire rack stood in the corner of a small room near the cafeteria and waited patiently with books in arms for me to come with a few coins moist in my fist and spin it around with my free hand to bring the blue cover of Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine squeaking…
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Holding Fast
“I know that your strength is limited; yet you have held fast to my word and have not denied my name.” (Revelation 3:8c, LH)