Diverted by Lesser Things
Matthew 22:1-14
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by Julian M. Aldridge

Some years ago, Hollywood produced an exciting film titled The Bridge on the River Kwai. The setting was during the Second World War in a Japanese Concentration Camp for prisoners of war. One of the prisoners, the Senior British Officer, talked the Japanese into letting the prisoners build a bridge over the River Kwai. The officer realized that it would boost morale, give life some purpose, engender hope if the men had somethi…

Amazing Grace, by Julian M. Aldridge