RE: the oldest of the old

daniel, great story!

thanks,
kim
--- Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> Oh, a true story,. The man I bought my house from
> became a Christian while
> in prison as a teenage youth and was given a copy of
> the Bible. Years later
> he was given as a gift a nice leather bound one so
> he gave his old thumb
> worned copy to a new convert as a gift. He missed
> it since he shared a long
> life with it. Years later (he's in his sixties now)
> he was browsing the
> shelves of the local Goodwill thrift store and ran
> across a book that
> looked like his long lost friend. He flipped
> through it noticing all the
> familiar passages highlighted and sure enough the
> back cover had an
> inscription citing it as a gift from him over 4
> decades ago. After telling
> me his story he said it was cast bread upon the
> water, he felt his old Bible
> had some mission work of its own to do before coming
> home.
>
> Maybe those bantams will comeback with some
> experience in their margins.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> oh where are you, my four lost bantams?
>
> kim
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