The Kiss

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  “Ryabovitch pulled the bed-clothes over his head, curled himself up in bed, and tried to gather together the floating images in his mind and to combine them into one whole. But nothing came of it. He soon fell asleep, and his last thought was that someone had caressed him and made him happy—that something extraordinary, foolish, but joyful and delightful, had come into his life. The thought did not leave him even in his sleep. When he woke up the sensations of oil on his neck and the chill of peppermint about his lips had gone, but joy flooded his heart just as the day before.” The Kiss By Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)

The Hammer of God's Word

"It is the pounding effect of the hammer of the Word of God that finally pulverizes the granite hardness of our rationalized hearts and breaks through to make us aware that God is trying to say something. It is the truth, driven home be a heart made earnest in prayer, that melts and softens and heals, and thus causes individuals to grow." (Ray Stedman)

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