a PRR 2013 calendar, a couple of weathered freights cars, and a NCC-1701 Star Trek Enterprise pizza cutter.
My son and his 6 kids came up from Florida for the holidays, so I had all 4 of my children and 12 grandkids together again! God's blessings continue to flow in this special season. It doesn't get any better than that for me!
He grew up in another obscure village where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.
He never wrote a book,
He never held an office,
He never went to college,
He never visited a big city,
He never travelled more than two hundred miles from the place where he was born,
He did none of the things usually associated with greatness ,
He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty three, his friends ran away.
One of them denied him .
He was turned over to his enemies, and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth
When he was dead,
He was laid in a borrowed grave,
Through the pity of a friend
Nineteen centuries have come and gone.
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race, and the leader of mankind's progress.
All the armies that have ever marched,
All the navies that have ever been built and sailed,
All the parliaments that have ever sat,
All the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life!
Adapted from a sermon by Dr James Allan Francis in “The Real Jesus and Other Sermons” © 1926 by the Judson Press of Philadelphia (pp 123-124)
nice present, but do you use it as a pizza cutter? ;)
ReplyDeleteThe Spatula is probably too flimsy to use on a hot stove. The Pizza cutter is a sturdy beauty that could be used but my wife objected to using it since it was a special gift from my son/daughter (cannot remember which; one saw it in gold and couldn't afford it; the other saw the silver version and got it for me!).
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