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Wakefield

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  “In some old magazine or newspaper I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man—let us call him Wakefield—who absented himself for a long time from his wife. The fact, thus abstractedly stated, is not very uncommon, nor, without a proper distinction of circumstances, to be condemned either as naughty or nonsensical. Howbeit, this, though far from the most aggravated, is perhaps the strangest instance on record of marital delinquency, and, moreover, as remarkable a freak as may be found in the whole list of human oddities. The wedded couple lived in London. The man, under pretense of going a journey, took lodgings in the next street to his own house, and there, unheard of by his wife or friends and without the shadow of a reason for such self-banishment, dwelt upward of twenty years. During that period he beheld his home every day, and frequently the forlorn Mrs. Wakefield. And after so great a gap in his matrimonial felicity—when his death was reckoned certain, his estate settled...
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song from the night

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last night was the eclipse and i missed it not because i wanted to but because i had to as the clouds covered the sky and the moon and me played peekaboo until the blanket got too thick and finally the moon went out and everything was dark i knew it was dark because it was dark and things all around were not as bright as they before when the moon was out and was so blinding that when you looked at it for a while it burned a hole in your eye and everywhere you looked you could see a spot i went to bed then later i woke up and it was very bright outside because the eclipse was over but my wife did not miss it and she said that about 2 am it looked very red outside when the moon was coming out from behind the earths shadow my friend is in the hospital today having an operation because he has cancer so i woke up at half past 4 am and got ready to be at the hospital to pray with him at 6 am which is something i have never really done before and i am very tired i tried to think of something ...
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X-Box marks the spot

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"Eph 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--" Paul draws a line in the sand: once you were here, now you are here. Once you once lived in the lust of the flesh. Once you did the desire of the flesh and mind. Once you were by nature children of wrath, just like everyone else. Someone would say, “There you go—it’s not your fault. You were born in sin; therefore your addiction came from your parents.” Great! Then tolerate my sin! Why is everyone so “concerned” about me? While it is true that I was born in sin and I once thought and had the desires of the unregenerate heart, I do not have to continue living like an unbeliever, one who does not know Christ Jesus. Paul makes the distinction that “we also once lived”. We don’t live there anymore. Bob Coy (Calvary Chapel, Ft. Lauderdale) summarized it this way: growing up, the best video games in the world...
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