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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
If you’ve ever found yourself in a sticky situation where both choices are hard, I can relate. This can happen both with emotional choices, financial choices, but also with physical objects. I once worked for a furniture store. One day while delivering a couch I found my head stuck between the bottom of the couch…
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Joe O’Banion
Excerpt from Transcript http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.10417/transcript?ID=sr0001 If two fellows get in kind of a fight and they’re face-to-face and they think they’re going to punch one another out, if any one of them says, hey, I must take a lesson, let’s cut this out, most likely, they’ll back off and there’s no fight. And that was the…
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Is There Anything to Look Forward to in Life?
When you’re growing up, there are lots of things to look forward to: graduating from high school, starting college, finding a mate. You might look forward to having your first child, buying your first house, or getting your favorite car. But there comes a point in time when you have those things and you start…
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Lean on Me
It was an unusually warm December night in 1998. It was our first semester at Kentucky Christian College and a couple friends from high school had come to visit. After dinner, in the pitch of darkness, we all piled into my white, 1984 Caprice Classic, and drove out to Grayson Lake, which was a place…
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A Letter to Chris after Leaving First Merchants
9-11-2011 Things have been a little rough lately, but life doesn’t stop throwing you curve balls just because you change careers. Rather than focusing on the negatives though, which is easy to do, I’d rather tell you about the good things that have happened and what I hope will happen in the future. I have…
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The Story of Us
I started out in Kansas City on the east side of the Missouri where I grew till I was eight and in not so much a hurry My wife had just turned six when I moved out to Indiana Born and raised a Tiptonite she was a little bannana’s When I was twelve I moved…
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If You’ll Have Me
The living room glowed with excitement. They had bought bagels and cream cheese. It was a historic moment. Two weeks ago I had walked into my job, poured a cup of coffee, and been escorted out the door. Now I’m sitting on a couch. As Matt went around the room he mentioned each of the…
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2014 in Review
Winter is Coming When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will…
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Oh Life
2012-11-01 I got up at 5:30 this morning to be at Tea’s Me Cafe at 22nd and Pennsylvania in Indianapolis by 7:30. I’m currently sitting at the McDonalds at 96th and Meridian. I got the Big Breakfast, Biscuits and Gravy, and a small orange juice. There were three guys here having a Bible study or…