- Mexican bodegas on every corner
- Dollar General stores in every little town, good prices, too
- Lack of skirts in churches and to buy, even in Belks
- I had forgotten how much it rains in NC
- The roads are all so nice and smooth and the highways so black and fast
- The USA might be having hard times economically but many malls and restaurants are full
- Everything is so green; must be all that rain
- All the little kids I remember have their own now
- Goodwill stores are busy
- Everybody has a cell phone that does things - even little kids
Job 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. This verse has been a favorite of mine since I was a teenager. When I was a high school senior at a Christian school in Virginia, Job 23:10 was chosen as our class theme verse. At our graduation commencement, the valedictorian and saludatorian in their addresses that day divided the verse in its two natural parts as a basis for the core of each one's address. I was the salutatorian of my senior class that year. I chose to speak of how God would one day reward our faithfulness and thus, we should always strive to remain true. For many years though, the first part of the verse haunted me in a way. As a missionary especially when times were lonely or difficult, I assumed it was my "trial" or "test," and as such must be accepted in all humility. As I have grown older, I have begun to look more toward the pearly gates and have reconsidered the thr...
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