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One is always on pretty solid ground to rely on the Bible regarding any subject, including love.  Love is mentioned over 670 times in the Bible.
 
We know that the New Testament is translated from the Greek. However, the Jews in Palestine, including Jesus and his disciples, spoke Aramaic,  after the Roman captivity came about.  Teh Greek language, say most writers and theologians, is close to the perfect language.  For instance, the works "believe" and "trust", are the same words in Greek.

Garey’s mom, Agnes, spent the past week with us.  My daughter, Natalie, is away for her two-week AT with the Guard.  Agnes came to help me with my granddaughter, Sabria.  Sabria loves her “Aggie.”  She lets Agnes read from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes book—something she won’t sit still long enough for me to do.
    Mother Goose rhymes are a particular love of Aggie’s.  As I listen, she recalls a musical that she took part in during elementary school.  A play in which she, Agnes, was Mother Goose.  She was chosen for the part because she loved to sing, and did, often.

Know the Expiration Date- This is not a story about spoiled milk.  Although, I suppose it could be.  I like to buy milk with the most distant date on the carton.  When you get home, there’s more time to enjoy the milk, juice, etc. Finally, it reaches a point where it just tastes sour and you have to throw it out.

How many of your birthday parties do you remember? Do you have a favorite birthday party memory? Birthday parties may be simple events or elaborate celebrations.

I got an email this week about our upcoming class reunion.  I don’t know if I’ll go or not.  I say it’s complicated.  It’s really not.  It has more to do with how I feel about myself than how I feel about my class or even how my class feels about me.

If anyone wants to know his actual value, consider the value God and Satan have placed upon you. You see, by words and actions, they have placed a value or worth upon each one of us. What is it?

    We get a good idea of what Satan thinks man is worth in Matthew 4. Read Matthew 4:1-11 (or Luke 4:1-13) for the entire context. We will focus upon Matthew 4:8-9. “Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. And he said to him, All these things I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”

The 2013 CMT Awards started off with a surprise duet by Lenny Kravitz and Jason Aldean of Lenny’s smash hit “American Woman”.  That was followed by a hilarious shrink bit involving co-host Kristen Bell advising co-host Aldean about his first time hosting.  Kudos to CMT for including Kelsey Grammer, Reba, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood, Dr. Drew and Vince Vaughn in this skit.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Mavericks were the house band! This might be a pretty good show.

About 80 to 90% of all persons in the United States have at least one birth sibling, and this excludes step-siblings or adoptive siblings (http://www.siblingsforever.com/sibling_facts). During childhood and perhaps adulthood, our sibling relationships teach us much about socialization.

When I was growing up, we kids each had three pairs of shoes: a pair of every-day shoes, a pair of school shoes, and a pair of Sunday shoes.  Each day after school, we would change from our school shoes into our every-day shoes, which had actually begun their lives as school shoes, but had become too worn to wear that title and had subsequently been demoted to every-day shoes.