Category: Love
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The Best Word
In the entire scope of the Hebrew Bible, less than 9,000 words are used. Does that sound like a lot? Well, considering that modern Hebrew has more than 33,000 words, contemporary English lands closer to a quarter of a million words, and the “romance” or Neo-Latin languages all count upwards of a 100,000 words in […]
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“Dyma Gariad Fel Y Moroedd”
During the Advent season of 1904, the famed G. Campbell Morgan stood in the pulpit of London’s Westminster Chapel and said, “If you and I could stand above Wales, looking at it below, you would see fire breaking out here and there, yonder and somewhere else. It is a Divine visitation.” Morgan was describing the […]
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I Can’t Make You Love Me
“Big John, a Vietnam veteran with a disability pension, lifted the bottle of Thunderbird to his lips and said, ‘My drinking drove her away. Now I drink to forget her.’” So goes a written line with enough drama to fuel multiple seasons of a trite realty show, or at the least fill a two-hour Hallmark […]