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Numbered Days: October 2011
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Normandy, Eagle's Nest, Pisa, and Cinque Terre. 8212; was on loan to Singapore, so I didn’t get to see it. But it was still time well spent. En route to the museum, I found the Parisian “Cleopatra’s Needle.” There are similar Egyptian obelisks in London, Rome and New York. After leaving the gun emplacements, we went down to Omaha Beach itself, then up to the achingly beautiful American cemet...
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Numbered Days: Thinking of Normandy
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Wednesday, October 12, 2011. It is hard to believe that another week has passed since I updated. I’ve got about 40 minutes until I leave the villa for Normandy (via Paris and Caen) and Berchtesgaden on free travel, and I am pretty well packed, so I thought I’d give a quick update. Monday, Oct. 10 — We had classes in the morning. Then after a quick but largely fruitless trip into town looking for a video ...Tuesday, Oc...
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Numbered Days: February 2011
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Wednesday, February 23, 2011. I have decided to change the name of this blog to "Numbered Days." See yesterday's entry. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Teach Us To Number Our Days. The 90th Psalm is unusual, in that it was written by Moses himself. It is a meditation upon how small a thing human time is, compared to the eternity of God. 1) Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Isn’t it interesti...
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Numbered Days: December 2007
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Wednesday, December 19, 2007. I love the story of the woman in Mark 5 who had a hemorrhage of blood. She had gone to many physicians of her day and spent all of the money she had but the problem had only grown worse. In her desperation she turned to Jesus. She only touched His cloak (vs. 27), but this was enough to instantly heal her. I like the way the Amplified Version renders 2 Corinthians 9.15: “Now than...
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Numbered Days: Black Oak
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Today, my father, brother, and I drove down into “the country,” that part of rural Washington County, Ark., which produced several generations of the Dockery and Bradley families. After stopping for a brief visit with my dad’s sister, Aunt Mary Louise, we made our way up the hill to the Black Oak church of Christ and cemetery. It was a good day, and a poignant one. 1 Thessalonians 4.13-14/...
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Numbered Days: Teach Us To Number Our Days
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Teach Us To Number Our Days. The 90th Psalm is unusual, in that it was written by Moses himself. It is a meditation upon how small a thing human time is, compared to the eternity of God. 1) Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2) Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. If I nu...
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Numbered Days: August 2008
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Saturday, August 23, 2008. I recently watched Piece of Cake. Again, a British-made miniseries about the Battle of Britain. I originally watched it several years ago while I was in high school, when it played on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. I enjoyed it then, and enjoyed it again. Without giving too much away, the title is ironic. Stopping the Luftwaffe was anything but a piece of cake. Saturday, August 09, 2008. Halbers...
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Numbered Days: June 2009
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Wednesday, June 03, 2009. Last week I took a road trip down to Louisiana, taking in some sites pertinent to American military history, a subject I am slated to teach this fall at Harding. I left Monday morning, stopping at Vicksburg, Miss., en route to New Orleans. I had been to Vicksburg. The next morning I visited the site. My next stop was at the National World War II Museum. In New Orleans. The late Stephen Am...
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Numbered Days: September 2008
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Monday, September 01, 2008. I just finished re-reading Jeffery Deaver’s novel, Garden of Beasts. Set in 1936 Berlin, as the Germans are preparing to host the Olympic Games. Deaver tells a riveting story, featuring two very compelling characters. Pp 122-123, paperback version). Kohl is not the only good German in the book. Another, heartsick at what the Nazis were doing to her country, mourns:. View my complete profile.
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Numbered Days: February 2008
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8220; So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90.12). Saturday, February 02, 2008. Horse Soldiers and Youth Ministers. To the effect that the cavalrymen had attacked German tanks (not armored cars) with their sabers and lances. This was an exaggeration, but still: Polish cavalrymen were no match for German armor. Though I have largely failed as a youth minister, I am comforted by two thoughts. I realized evil forces were at work trying to destroy the teenagers I love...
