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Taking Inventory
through life there is never
a
time when we
are free of them.
Dear reader, God had a unique purpose for
our days to this time. To smile and touch a
human being's life at his point of need, and to
give him hope, are just some of the great things
God had in mind for us. If we fear or question
the future, we have not come to a true
realization of Jesus' counsel,
"Let not your
heart be troubled; I go to prepare
a
place for
you
...
that where I
am,
there ye may be also."
God is, even now, nurturing us as part of an
Eternal Investment in us. He will give us the
wisdom to make sound decisions regarding all
the days of our life. As we go forward, may the
Lord bless us and keep us; may the Lord make
His face to shine upon us and give us peace.
Benjamin Franklin, before his passing,
composed his own epitaph which reads:
The body of Benjamin Franklin,
printer (like the cover of an old book,
its contents tom out, and stript of its
lettering and guilding), lies here ... Yet
the work itself shall not be los(, for it
will, as he believed, appear once
more, in
a
new and more beautiful
edition, corrected and amended by
The Author.
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