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81) Evil Allures, But Good Endures

By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), 1885      There lived in olden times a good and kindly man.  He had this world’s goods in abundance, and many slaves to serve him.  And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying, “There is no better lord than ours under the sun.  He feeds and clothes us well, […]

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76) St. Francis and God Discuss Grass and Trees

Today’s meditation is just for fun.  I do not know who wrote this piece, and so I cannot say for sure whether or not the following conversation really took place.  But it contains such good theology and so much that I agree with, that I believe it may indeed be divinely inspired.   –Leon Stier

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1) How Do You Know? –an old story

     There once was a farmer. One day the farmer’s only horse broke out of the corral and ran away. The farmer’s neighbors, all hearing of the horse running away, came to the farmer’s house to view the corral. As they stood there, the neighbors all said, “Oh, what bad luck!” The farmer replied, “How do you know this

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