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Monday, February 23, 2015

Opus 2015-48: Ode to Old: Visions of Headstones Dancing in My Head?

As I get older I feel my aches and pains more.  I move slower but am blessed to be moving well for my age.  Since we live in a youth culture it is easy to begin feeling like there is little left for you to do in life except collect Social Security and run up hospital bills.  I thought the following was interesting as I was reading recently.
“For many years we seemed to be beating the air here; but a few months since, God so blessed the preaching of poor John Bredin, just tottering over the grave, that we have now a lively society, swiftly increasing both in grace and number.”  p. 368, Thursday, April 19, 1787
I am not quite “tottering over the grave,” in spite of what some of my students may think, but I can see the headstone in the distance.  Of course, with my vision, it may only be a USP truck.

It is good to know that in the year that the Constitution of the United States was written an old man was fanning the flames of revival in England.

Wesley, John.  The Works of John Wesley, Volume IV, Third Edition.  Kansas City:  Beacon Hill
    Press of Kansas City, 1979.

homo unius libri
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4 comments:

  1. Gorges SmytheFebruary 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM

    Heck, I've already set my gravestone. I had a notion to put a death date, just to flip people out.

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    1. PumiceFebruary 24, 2015 at 5:12 AM

      It might be interesting to do that just to see how many people would notice.

      Grace and peace.

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  2. chipmunkFebruary 25, 2015 at 8:49 AM

    Aww, it's probably just the UPS truck.

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    1. PumiceFebruary 26, 2015 at 5:09 AM

      I am not sure if that is good news or bad.

      Grace and peace.

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