... didn't lose it completely. And as a result he experienced FEAR, FAILURE AND FORGIVENESS. I. Fear A. Did Peter feel that same cold better stab of FEAR every time he heard a rooster crow? I don't know. But we do know what fear caused him to do. Molly Ivins tells a story "The Fun's in the Fight," about two little boys, Johnny and Boots, that really gives good insight into the kind of fear Peter must have felt. When Johnny and Boots were 6 and 7 respectively and growing up in Texas, they played Texas Rangers in ...
... prayed, "Help us to do our very best this day and be content with today's troubles so that we shall not borrow the troubles of tomorrow. Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith." Newspaper columnist Molly Ivins tells a wonderful story of two little boys in East Texas: John Henry Falk and Boots Cooper. In their games they were Texas Rangers, so John Henry's mother sent them down to the chicken house to rout out a snake that had been doing considerable damage ...
... will be our Hero, too. 1. Harold Kushner, WHO NEEDS GOD. 2. "Now Rodman can be on tip of your tongue," LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, June 17, 1996, p. C2. 3. Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler, BEST, WORST (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1975). 4. Ivins, Molly. You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You (New York: Random House, 1998), 232-233. 5. MY FAVORITE ILLUSTRATIONS (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1990.) 6. James Charlton, (Avon). Cited in Pat Springle, MAKING CHOICES THAT HONOR GOD (Elgin, IL: David C. Cook ...
