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    Intervene in Prayer – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis Mother’s Day cards show up on store shelves April 1st through Mother’s Day, describing the most wonderful mothers of the world, but what about those mothers who don’t live up to the rosy sentiments on greeting cards? How can we reconcile those? Isn’t a mother’s love the closest there is to God’s love? Isn’t a mother supposed to put...
    by at May 14th, 2012 at 02:05 pm
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    The Rhino in My Heart – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis When I worked for the phone company, I went to the company school in Dallas at least once a year. In 1995 I joined a traveling crew, going all over the state. I left on Monday morning and returned on Thursday night. One night recently I dreamed of finding a bulging suitcase from one of my trips. It was full of neatly pressed blue jeans and work t-shirts....
    by at May 6th, 2012 at 02:05 pm
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    Onyx, Bdellium, and Gold – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis Gold is selling for $1660 today and silver for $31 an ounce. Gold-buying parties are popping up everywhere. Existing businesses are now buying gold and silver too. There’s big money to be made, whether you are buying or selling. A tiny handful of broken necklaces and earrings can bring you $100. The Bible story of Creation tells us, “Now a river...
    by at April 30th, 2012 at 08:04 am
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    Old Snake Skin – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis I have a snakeskin hanging over some deer horns in my living room. Some poor old snake is running around with no clothes on. No, really, the snake grew a new skin underneath and then shed the old skin. If he were to shed the old skin too soon, it might kill him; too late, it would hinder his growth. There is a gospel song named “Take Off Those...
    by at April 22nd, 2012 at 05:04 pm
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    The Way Up is Down – Jewels from the Word
    Lavon Hightower Lewis Zebedee’s wife came to Jesus with a special request for her two sons, James and John. She requested that her sons might sit on both sides of Jesus when He came into His kingdom. I wonder how her sons felt about that? Maybe their mother had been doing this all their lives, manipulating to get them promoted in life. Were they Mama’s boys? Did...
    by at April 16th, 2012 at 07:04 am
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    WAITING FOR THAT DAY – JEWELS FROM THE WORD
    Lavon Hightower Lewis Easter was always my favorite holiday next to Christmas when I was growing up. Besides the excitement of getting a new dress and new shoes for church, it was because we got to see our cousins from Wichita after a long winter apart. Our cousins came home to Vinita for Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Rodeo Week, and Labor Day, but they stayed in...
    by at April 2nd, 2012 at 08:04 pm
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    HIDDEN PICTURES – JEWELS FROM THE WORD
    Lavon Hightower Lewis One of my favorite computer games is a hidden picture game involving deep-sea diving to a ship-wreck to recover the Queen of England’s crown, which was lost at sea when the ship sank. To find the crown, the player has to find all kinds of hidden objects jumbled up during the wreck in the wrong compartments of the ship and bring them to the surface...
    by at March 25th, 2012 at 09:03 pm
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    ETERNAL TREASURE – JEWELS FROM THE WORD
    Lavon Hightower Lewis When I was a kid, we took dandelion bouquets to our mothers, which they graciously received as if they were bouquets of long-stemmed fancy red roses. We took the tiny white blooms from the clover and made them into necklaces that we proudly wore around our necks as though they were strings of the finest pearls. We took the tiny petals off the baby...
    by at March 18th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
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    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS – JEWELS FROM THE WORD
    I have lived in Vinita, Oklahoma, all my life. I went off to college in Tulsa for one year, but came home frequently on the weekends. Then I worked a year, commuting to junior college in Miami, Oklahoma, before marrying and moving to Okmulgee Tech school 100 miles away from home for two years. Faithfully every two weeks, as much as finances would allow, we drove home to...
    by at March 12th, 2012 at 08:03 am
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    GARDENING
    Lavon Hightower Lewis The seed catalogs came in the mail this week, a sure sign of spring. In fact, it is probably too late to plant peas and lettuce, but I have seeds from last year,  or maybe the year before, that I would love to plant this year. Surely some of them will germinate. This home I live in now doesn’t really have a very good place for a garden, but...
    by at March 5th, 2012 at 08:03 am
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