shortness of life
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To save one life
Occasionally, I take note of obituaries and death notices. It happens with greater frequency now that the days of my life have passed the biblical seventy years (Psalm 90:10). Whether I’m one of those strong enough to pass eighty is yet to be seen, but it has long been perfectly clear to me that those Continue reading
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This one short life
When writer Annie Dillard was a young child, she would hide a precious penny of her own for someone else to find. She’d cradle it in the roots of a tree or a crack in the sidewalk, then with a piece of chalk she’d draw huge arrows leading up to the penny from both directions Continue reading
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The Sauntering Pilgrim 