YOU AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A HOUND DOG performed by Elvis Presley: You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog Cryin’ all the time. You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog Cryin’ all the time. Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit And you ain’t no friend of mine. Well they said you was high classed Well, […]
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Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ——————– Robert Coles is a psychology professor at Harvard, an author, and a Christian. He tells the story of a little girl he met in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He described that poverty stricken village as follows: “Death haunted every
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SLOOP JOHN B by The Beach Boys We come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me. Around Nassau town we did roam. Drinking all night, got into a fight, Well I feel so broke up, I want to go home. (Chorus): So hoist up the John B’s sails, see how the main sail sets,
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Frank McCourt (1930-2009) (…continued) Frank McCourt was a man skilled in the writing and speaking of words. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling book Angela’s Ashes, in which he tells hilarious stories of his miserable childhood growing up in Limerick, Ireland. It is not all hilarious, of course, as
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(…continued) Where is Eddie now? Let’s look at the question from a different perspective, from the other end of life. Imagine a little newborn baby, let’s call her Aisha. Let’s say Aisha was born just this morning, so she is here now; but where was she a year ago? How did she get
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In Ezekiel 37 the prophet is given a vision of a valley filled with skeletons, the remains of thousands of dead people. The Lord asked Ezekiel if those dry bones could live. ‘Can the dead really live again?’ was the question. “O Lord,” Ezekiel replied, “only you know that.”
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Today’s song is not from the 60’s or 70’s, but it is by one of the best songwriters from those years, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty began a solo career after CCR broke up in 1972. He wrote “Don’t You Wish it Was True?” for his 2005 album Revival. While John
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“Eternity is in our hearts,” was the theme of yesterday’s meditation. We are frustrated and saddened by the swift passage of time, and the Bible tells us of a place beyond time that God has prepared for us. But John Lennon was not interested. In one of the biggest hits of all time
THOSE WERE THE DAYS by Mary Hopkin Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And think of all the great things we would do. Chorus: Those were the days, my friend We thought they’d never end We’d sing
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A Funeral Sermon by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), (see meditation #270 for a brief biography), from God’s Trombones, 1927 Weep not, weep not, She is not dead; She’s resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heart-broken husband– weep no more; Grief-stricken son– weep no more; Left-lonesome daughter– weep no more; She only just gone home. Day
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