Reflections

"Then Moses answered and said, 'But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, "The LORD has not appeared to you."' So the LORD said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' And he said, 'A rod.'"1 I have read how a boy who loved to listen to music was bitterly disappointed because he could neither play nor sing. But a kindly gentleman encouraged him with these words: "There are many ways of making music. What matters is the song in your heart." That boy—Antonio Stradivarius—took the man at his word and became the world's greatest violin maker. I also read about "a well-dressed European woman on safari in Africa . The group stopped briefly at a hospital for lepers. The heat was intense, the flies buzzing. She noticed a nurse bending down in the dirt, tending to the pus-filled sores of a leper. "With disdain the woman remarked, 'Why, I wouldn't do that for all the money in the world!...

Think carefully about what you will be reading. This is a new one for me... MARY'S LAMB Mary had a little Lamb, His fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, The Lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school each day, T'wasn't even in the rule. It made the children laugh and play, To have a Lamb at school. And then the rules all changed one day, Illegal it became; To bring the Lamb of God to school, Or even speak His Name! Every day got worse and worse, And days turned into years. Instead of hearing children laugh, We heard gun shots and tears. What must we do to stop the crime, T...

The book is titled "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck and is a true story of a farmer in China before the revolution. This farmer was a poor man and he married a slave girl...not beautiful/ugly.. because this was the best he would do then. But eventually he became a rich man. In the process his wife was faithful and hardworking and having been a slave in a rich house knew many things of life at a higher standard in society. But she worked hard with the poor farmer while he became rich...they had to go through a terrible famine with four children and she was faithful to him all along. But eventually when the farmer became rich he came across a new thing in life... such as visiting tea shops with harlots. He fell in love with a beautiful harlot and then he started noticing that his wife is ugly. He even married the harlot and brought her home offering her a better standard of life. The first wife was heart broken and she cried saying she had borne him sons...even though the terr...