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21 years ago

21 years ago, originally uploaded by wenabell.Can you guess what this is?

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Family, Photography

Like

“The use of like for as has its defenders; they argue that any usage that achieves currency becomes valid automatically. This, they say, is the way the language i...

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Quotes, Writing, Words

Cursed Be the Day on Which I Was Born

I am very thankful that the Bible does not sugarcoat anything. Even the greatest of prophets hated their life and the work to which they were called. Just before ...

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Bible, Jeremiah, Suffering

We Are an Indissoluble Union of the Two

“Here Tolkien enables Andreth to remain profoundly faithful to both the Bible and Christian tradition. Genesis’s second creation account envisions our humanity as...

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Quotes, Literature

rhododendron

rhododendron, originally uploaded by wenabell.I love that Wendy has such talent with nature shots. She captures things I usually just walk by. This picture has NO...

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Creation, Photography

Few Bearers of His Cross

“Jesus has many lovers of his kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of his cross. Many desire his consolation, but few desire his tribulation. He finds many c...

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Quotes, Jesus, Suffering

Thrown Away a Better Intro

Christopher Hitchens with advice to writers in a recent Vanity Fair article:“Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of...

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Grammar, Writing

The Gorgeous Insanity of it All

I snoop around the Rabbit Room because I like its proprietor.There are two beautiful paragraphs in an excellent article written by Lanier Ivester that I am going ...

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Art, Creativity, Writing

Questioning Azazel

In Leviticus 16, the word Azazel is used four times. In fact, Azazel is only used four times in the entire Bible, all in Leviticus 16. This wouldn’t be too big a ...

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Leviticus, Jesus, Sin

The Evident Wonder of God's Great Provision

“Sometimes it’s books or songs that tear away at the carefully crafted shackles we have allowed around our wrists, the bonds that blind us to the evident wonder o...

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