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301) I Want to Go Home (part two)

     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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300) I Want to Go Home (part one)

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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299) If There is a Heaven (part two)

       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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295) Don’t You Wish It Was True?

     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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294) Imagine That

     “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

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