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n Morris Managing Liditor
Alcwinc Opinion Page Editor
Editorial Board
1 Bolt Wendell Edwards Amy Sllis Malissa Endsley
ly Gombert Lucas W. Hcndrh son Wendy Hornbaker
Catherine Poteot Robyn Stul H. Todd Thomas
ans must be
red for change
a cold drab city trillion over the next 1 0 years or about
shrugged off its $ 12500 per German not to mention
ut on its warmer the $10 bill' m Germany is giving
the celebration Moscow in conomic aid. Under these
ment comes the harsh cconc nic conditions Kohl will
mated jobs and need to hav an abundance of wisdom
and crack advisers.
160000 former Kohl's tas is extremely important
do not have jobs especially ir serving as a role model
j even be asking for emergm socialist democracies in
Eastern Eui ipe that will be rcstructur-
rColil the man ing and rebuilding their own lands
in getting the But tliroti 'hout the reforming and
d needs to rebuilding ot careers and homes. East
Ion his new Germans nc d to remember that their
ist German peo- lives may h temporarily or even per-
il only mean eco- manentl) .t ained. The seeming joys
political catas- of capitalist wealth may turn out to be
the sadness if capitalist poverty: both
) companies in are harsh re lities.
d to go bankrupt Along with the good must come the
orkcrs arc bad and Ea t Germans as well as West
lobs. Germans ncd to harbor a remem-
uikl East Gcr- branceofth ir past dreams for the
environment and future and i mcentration on the present
io cost nearly SI task of pron oting a stable remarriage.
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Lost feeling rut limited to kids
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"OK we need to go to the store; make Linda be
sure you don't get lost from me." My feeling in it
mother used to tell me that when we had myself "Hi
to do the grocery shopping. I was a to the side i
small child in a large store and no way Linda be
would I get lost from her. The feeling I address. Tli
got in my stomach when I was lost was stressed slu
enough to keep me close. sick feeling
This summer I lived in Spain six
weeks. I had the best time but the sick
feeling in my stomach from being lost
came back to me.
My friend Linda and 1 were in Malaga
seeing the sights. After an all-day tour of
the Alhambra a palace for Moorish
kings we rode a bus back to Malaga.
From there we decided to walk to the
house where wc were staying. The fami-
. ly lived on the side of a mountain which
we could see from the bus station. Linda
and I thought wc would sec more sights
on the way home.
We were halfway home when we ran
into construction. We had to detour.
"No problem we can go around it
and back up toward the mountain" I
thought. Well we kept walking around
the construction but never found a street
leading back up to the mountain.
God gave
Because God is in control of the uni-
verse and all that happens in it he has
the ability to do some awesome things.
But he also can do things that simply
arc neat.
I wrote poetry in high school before I
was a Christian. One of my most memo-
rable poems was "A Second Chance."
look into the daiksky
drawn in by die light of the stars
and the gaze of the night.
I reach my hand high to the spangled
cloak
and scream into a black mas.
A white rip stieaks oveihead
and falling light fills my hand.
My eyes soak with the blight and the
sight.
when I look downpj the gorge
through which I lime passed One I lu
as it icseals. to see a
I am drifting beyond this night pa sst
Drifting upon the ethereal souls of the and dow
heavenly. I shut m
I look at myself and see only light to the si
and scream with no mouth masked
at a shape with nofoim and the
lie. I got that sick
li. I thought to
It could it be to get
untain."
k for the family's
e looked the more
n though I had a
) laugh it off and
"We were in a foreign
country. It was dark.
And we decided we
were in the bad part
of town."
Amy
Ellis
Sroove
or a miracle when we happened upon
the son's apartment complex.
We screamed with excitement. Mira-
cles do exist. We went straight to the
son's apartment on the third floor and
rang the doorbell but we were shocked
when some other man answered. We fig-
ured we were on the wrong floor.
We walked up and down to each floor
and still no luck. We decided to look on
the mailboxes for names and addresses.
We were not going crazy; it had to be
the third floor.
We couldn't remember the son's name
or his wife's but we did remember the
daughter's name.
We stormed back up to the third floor
and asked if that was the house of Mar
the daughter. The man looked at us with
confusion and said yes.
We were excited we were actually get-
ting somewhere. He was the brother-in-law.
He gave us the address of the fami-'
ly and we called a taxi. We had depend-
ed on ourselves enough for one evening.
This summer made me realize that the
sick feeling of being lost does not apply
only to children in grocery stores. I was
a child lost in Spain.
nd chance
God."
This poem resurfaced a few weeks
ago and I read it for the first time in
about two years. As my eyes ran through
the words I realized that God had
answered my cry "Please I'm not
ready!"
Though the poem obviously was not
based on any event in my life the words
did reveal the exact place I was in life. I
was not ready.
I had believed I would be going to
Heaven because I lived a clean life. I
thought that by living according to the
commandments I had earned a relation-
ship with God and I prayed to him
every night. But I did not know who
Jesus was is or will be. 1 did not know I
needed a savior. I was not ready.
nd look up I like to think God had me write that
nough which I poem and arranged things so I would not
read it again until after I learned the
ic ground. truth. Now I have a vivid reminder of
' open again how lost I was and how easy it is to be
dy white gowns lost not everyone knows Jesus.
I am glad God gave me a second
me's woids "Thank chance.
figured sop ould happen.
We were gn country. It was
getting dai ' no idea of the fam-
ily's name .. And we decided
wewcicin art of town.
1 he day j mother had taken
us to town luced her son to us.
Linda and in praying for help
vri I seco
"I'lea i ready!"
And the ipon came upon me
and I ful iiavity
with no i
until I t of spots dark amid
the lig
EMMS. But I did not know who
nHjSf' 'esus was Is or will be.
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miple terms.
I of thought that
urch with your
in a blue jean
you can Icam life's
tian living echo
ay lives.
lines can be found
or time from a local
Idies station
tthy of thought are
if these old twangy
tftcn pack a power-
in be traced back to
.vrote a few country
tow it.
"A dry crust eaten
steak every day
nd strife."
must have remind
ed Willie ai id Waylon of similar thoughts.
Uaby let' sell your diamond ring buy
some boots and faded jeans and go away.
This coat mid tie is choking me and in
your high ciety you cry all day. Maybe
it's time wt qoi back to the basics of love.
I'll admi' flic two aren't identical but
they aren't total strangers either.
Proverbs 17:9 offers a simple formula
for keeping a relationship together.
"Love forgets mistakes; nagging about
them parts the best of friends."
Earl Thomas Conley sings of a woman
who has perfected this same formula.
What slu sees Is only what she wants
to what shf has she thinks is enough.
What she does Is just look at the good
things whut she is is a woman in'love
I occasionally sing that one to my wife
despite her protests.
Proverbs 20:3 says "It is an honor for a
man to stay out of a fight. Only fools
insist on quarreling."
The coward of the county in Kenny
Roger's song by the same name received
similar instructions from his father.
Walk aw yfrom trouble if you can. It
won't mean you'ie weak if you turn the
other cheek. I hope you'ie old enough to
understand son you don't have to fight to
be a man.
Willie Nelson learns the hard way the
value of a good woman and the meaning
of true wealth in "Heartaches of a Fool."
'Perhaps the reason
some of these country
songs sound like
proverbs Is that some
of the proverbs sound
like country logic. "
Don
Morris
Plain and Simple
Made a vow that somehow I would find
fame and fortune well I found it but look
at me now I had a sweetheart who would
love me forever. Didn't need her I would
reign all alone. Look at mc I'm the king
of a cold lonely castle and the queen of
my heart is gone. Gather Wound me you
fools for tin isten to me a lesson
you'll leai i s happiness and love
sent from h ve.
Sounds li might have been
reading I'll 14.
"A father his sons homes and
riches but ord can give them
understand "
Or inaylv Trust in your money
and down ust in God and
flourish us
Or 1 6: 1 6 uch better is wisdom
than gold i standing than silver!"
Not all ci ics were divinely
inspired. 1 h o find the scripture
that says a ells sings "It wasn't
God who n y-tonk angels."
Selective can help pick the
good from id find an idea worth
thinking al
Perhaps some of these coun-
try songs s proverbs is that some
ol the prm d like country logic.
I've thou c the proverbs were
written by ich hand from West
Texas Tin 'know" have assured
me this isn e.
The Proverbs like many things in West
Texas are simple and easily understood
and understanding what you read is
encouraging. The Bible's message is
encouraging but the wording of it mixed
with my lack of knowledge has some-
times discouraged me.
I feel like I need an interpreter to pro-
vide the context for what I'm reading.
Frustrated I've broken vows to read and
decided they must have covered a lot of
material the summer I skipped vacation
Bible school.
In the introduction the Proverbs are
described as "nuggets of truth." I can
swallow a nugget; it's the boulders in
some of the other books that have kept
my Bible dusty.
Like a marathon runner who fails to
finish because of an overly fast start a
reader can tire from selecting material
that is more than he can handle.
Proverbs is a short race for those of us
who are theologically out of shape. And
you definitely do not have to be a theolo-
gian to pan these same nuggets from he
streim of country and western music.
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