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THE TESTIMONY OF DUCT TAPE
I’m seated towards the front of the church, among the elderly of the congregation, seated behind a lady with winter in her hair. When you reach her age you’ve obeyed the rules long enough
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LO, I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
Early in my workday I said hello to people who are dying. We joked, we hugged, talked about the mid-20’s weather, felt sorry for the plants, there was a little conference about a four-dollar
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THIS BEING A FRESH JANUARY …
Let me stand, but bend to truth. Let me write my conclusions in pencil, and have no shame in a well worn eraser. Let me see myself true and fit my britches. Having paid
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FOOTLOOSE CHRISTMAS
Thinking back on it, the only thing missing was Kevin Bacon. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ My father was Big on honesty, which came under some social erosion with all
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FAMILY REUNION
We lived on the old home place, our little red house built new in the year of my first year in school, set up under a trio of gorgeous oak trees, a plot of
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Amazing Grace
She’s on my mind tonight — she being the old song — just notes on a piano, no singing, no need. If there is a more powerful song in the history of all songs,
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That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong Church
This is how the memory goes … I don’t know where we’re going, or why, but we’ve been going all day, I’m just the little kid in the big back seat, Mom and Dad
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Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?
I really hope God still lets us get hungry Up There, not starving, but that good kind of hungry, like when I was a kid, working or playing, just burning calories like a tornado
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