... same stars through my window that you see through yours, but we're worlds apart, worlds apart. And you see the same skies through brown eyes that I see through blue, but we're worlds apart, worlds apart. Just like the earth, just like the sun, two worlds together ... , worlds apart. Together, but worlds apart. And a mockingbird sings in an ole yonder tree, twad-dle-ee ah dee dee dah dee dee dee." (Music and Lyrics by Roger Miller, copyright 1985 by Tree Publishing Company, Inc. and Roger Miller Music, 8 Music ...
... to truly hear it as something other than a Boy Scout good-deed story, we need to hear it in a modern context. Robert McAfee Brown suggests that Americans hear it as a “Good Russian” parable -- with a person (an “undocumented worker”) getting mugged and left for dead in a ... present reality of the Kingdom of God. 1. Robert McAfee Brown, unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (Philadelphia Westminster, 1984). 2. Dee Horn, in Alive Now, MarchlApril 1988, pp. 12-13 used by permission.
... about some burglars in Essex, England, who broke into the home of a woman named Dee Blythe. After stealing everything of value from her living room, the burglars discovered a plastic bag of powder marked “Charlie.” “Charlie” is a street term for cocaine. ... Bathroom Reader (Ashland, OR: Bathroom Readers’ Press, 2002), p. 137. 3. Robert Lauer and Jeanette Lauer, Watersheds (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988), pp. 30-31. 4. (New York: A Touchstone Book, 1970). 5. (London: Long‑mans Green and Co., 1902).6 ...
... was God's plan, not ours. God chose to make us male and female, right-brained and left, short and tall, oldest child and youngest, rural and urban, brown and white and black and yellow, speaking different languages and coming from different backgrounds. This was God's plan for reasons only God can know. And, if it ... OF JOKES AND ANECDOTES, (New York: Random House, Inc., 1990). 3. Dee Brestin, MOODY, July/August 1992. 4. James W. Moore, WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS..., (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1993), p. 78.
