... simply "either...or." I don't believe that the writer of I John meant that we should not use the words. Father John Powell tells about a beautiful friendship between two brother priests which ended in tragedy when one was hit by a car and killed. When told ... strong affection for or an attachment or devotion to a person or persons." Then he sat back down and resumed playing his piano. Lucy sat there stunned and then murmured sarcastically, "On paper, he's great." That is the kind of love that I John is writing ...
... 's love for us is immediate and it is intimate. Our response should be urgent. Now is the day of salvation. 1. Monica Powell 2. Brent D. Earles, THE GOSPELS FOR GRADUATES, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987), p. 97. 3. Dr. Leonard E. Stadler 4. ... York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1987), p. 131. 5. Bob Haslam, LIGHT & LIFE, October 1993, back page. 6. Gregory Cerio and 6. Lucy Howard with bureau reports, NEWSWEEK, April 1, 1994, p. 8. 7. Frank E. Leeper, First Presbyterian, Toccoa, GA in JOURNAL FOR ...
... paints the pictures on the walls of his mind. "It is these pictures of the mind that are the key." Joseph Powell, a Loyola University professor, expressed it well in his excellent book, FULLY HUMAN, FULLY ALIVE: "Fully alive people find enjoyment in what ... to take the first person I meet into my arms and dance merrily through the streets." Then, in the third frame, he meets very grumpy Lucy. Snoopy is silent. In the fourth frame, he is dancing again: "I feel that I want to take the SECOND person I meet into ...
... was childbirth, especially if any sort of infection set in after delivery. For example, John Milton’s first 2 wives, Mary Powell and Katherine Woodcock, both died in childbirth. Among upper middle class in 17th century London, one mother died for every 40 ... . By the early decades of the 20th century, things hadn’t changed much. In 1929, the wife of the Prime Minister of England, Lucy Baldwin, pointed out that pregnant women were as likely to die as soldiers had been in the trenches in the 1914-1918 war. ...
... life for us. Every one of us here today is brought into the world by a mother’s love, a love that is stronger than death. John Milton’s first 2 wives, Mary Powell and Katherine Woodcock, both died in childbirth. Among the upper middle class in 17th century London, one mother died for every 40 births. In 1929 Lucy Baldwin the wife of the Conservative Prime Minister of England, noted that pregnant women were as likely to die in childbirth as were the soldiers who had huddled in the trenches during World ...
