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Today
Ben Franklin may have said it best: “One today is worth two tomorrows. “That is because today is the only day we have. Yesterday is gone. We can’t call yesterday back to do what we failed to do. Nor...
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Mango
He does great things past finding out, yes, wonders without number. Job 9:10, NKJV. Some friends periodically blessed us with a box of fruit from trees in South Florida. They are the most exquisite...
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Attitude of Gratitude
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and is courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Ps. 100:4. NIV In the rich garden of virtues, gratitude is not only the soil but the sunshine and...
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Heartwood
O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray. Judges 16:28, NKJV For the most part, trees mind their own business and just stand there in the same spot year after year. About the only way you...
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Bitter Herbs
Poinsettias are members of a large and diverse family of flowering plants called Euphorbiaceae which has more than 7,500 species. The largest genus in that family, Euphorbia, has more than 2,100...
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Cuetlaxochitl
(Pronounced cute-el-axo-chit-el) He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end....
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Hideous Flower
For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. Isa. 53:2, NKJV. I...
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Performance Anxiety
But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy...
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I was waiting in line to clear security at Ontario International Airport on an outbound flight to Chicago when I was saw him coming down the line of passengers, nose low, head casting back and forth,...
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Once you see it, its hard to take your eyes off of it. It’s just a black-and-white etching and graving attributed to the sixteenth-century Spanish artist Gaspar Becerra now in the Royal Academy of...
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Extermination
When ants heard the Lord’s command to be fruitful and multiply, they took it to heart. Myrmecologists (those who study ants) estimate that there are far more ants than any other kind of insect. So far...
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Honey, there are ants in my kitchen again! Just look at them!” The anguished wail from my wife brings me running from my study. Sure enough, an occasional ant hurries along the countertop, around the...
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Smelly Feet
The female African malarial mosquito “prefers” getting its blood meal from the feet of its sleeping victim. Could the reason be because the buzzing of a mosquito around the head might alert the victim...
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Bird Migration
Just how do birds return to the same nest year after year after doing their long distance seasonal migration? Do they have a built-in map in their head? Perhaps they have magnetic compasses in their...
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