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by Kevin Burton If laughter is the best medicine, as Reader’s Digest suggests, sign me up for the laughter of Sarah. Not that it was all fun and games. I’m talking about Old Testament Sarah, wife of Father Abraham, patriarch of the nation of Israel. You’ve heard the saying about he …
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by Kevin Burton One of the greatest vocal performances in my time as a consumer of pop music is on a song that leaves me deeply conflicted; Stoney End by Barbara Streisand. The song grabbed me on some level immediately upon its 1971 release, even before I had the life experience to understand …
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by Kevin Burton From the tiny Old Testament book of Joel comes a big idea. It’s quite a good notion any time, perhaps more so on this New Year’s Eve. If you’re doing some soul searching this time of year, you’re not alone. Joel 2:13 is one of my memory verses. Alistair …
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by Kevin Burton Well, the big day has come, and I wish you a Merry Christmas! This covers today and all Christmases. Even after I die, if you’re still chugging along and remember me, remember that old Kev wished you a Merry Christmas. But on this Christmas Day I have a bigger …
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by dictionaryscoop.com We all remember palindromes from our childhood years. Funny sentences that read the same forward as backward. Some are short, some incredibly long, and while some do make sense, most of them are surrealist, to say the least. From the whimsical “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!” to the succinct …
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by Kevin Burton Even the Apostle Paul asked God the question, made the request. So I don’t feel quite as bad about not initially embracing my own weakness. In fact, Paul asked three times. My idea is to acknowledge weakness when I must, but then work to try to get rid of …
by Kevin Burton “I have been through hell,” was a quote from one of the Israeli hostages released this week by Hamas. Maam, you have been through severe trauma of a degree I can’t imagine, but you have not been through hell. You don’t get through hell. The Bible says hell is …
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by Kevin Burton As a legally blind man my mind never gets too far from vision as the five sense in general. That is partly because people often assume and talk about hearing being more acute for blind people than for others. That’s not true. It’s just that blind people rely on hearing …
by Kevin Burton The Scrabble words deployed against you that get you beat; those are the ones you remember the best. Something kind of similar happened with my Bible memory verses recently. I’ve written previously about my memory verses, typed on paper, taped onto index cards of various colors. I am up …
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by Kevin Burton In this life of deceit and disappointments, we pray for something solid we can hold on to, something that is true. We long for something we can trust. Trust according to Merriam-Webster is “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.” On the …
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