Not to be outdone by a bunch of scrawny pigeons, Isabel ran at them, waving her hands and kicking her feet.
This had better results. The pigeons flew away.
But something else also flew.
Sermons
In the Arms of Simeon
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I opened the door and placed the milk jug into the snow.
We sat there, in the quiet, looking out at the empty ball field.
“I used to play here when I was a kid,” he said.
Giving Ourselves Away
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The Baptism is not something external that happened to Jesus. It is now something personal. Something internal that happened in Jesus.
Safe Keeping
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If love is the most human of emotions, then separation from love, certainly, is among the most profound and universal of the human sorrows.
Benedictus
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Luke may not have had a WIFI connection… He may not have had access to an email distribution list or a cloud back up
But he had something greater than all of that. He had the truth.
The Nobel Prize in Vacuuming
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It is not enough to vacuum… everyone vacuums. The smallness of my action did not matter — I was doing something magnificent!