- Series
- Minds of men
- Air Date
- 1958-01-01
- Duration
- 00:28:58
- Episode Description
- This program explores religion's role as a dynamic in effective living.
- Series Description
- A series of explorations into effective living, combining dramatizations with commentary.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- KUT (Radio station : Austin, Tex.) (Producer)University of Texas (Producer)Norris, R. C. (Director)Schenkkan, Robert, 1917-2011 (Producer)
- Contributors
- Moore, Bernice (Speaker)Davidson, James R. (Speaker)Matheson, Raymond T. (Speaker)Morton, Janey (Actor)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1951-1960
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No outruns cried the minds of many situations
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while God walks is soft and grandmother who.
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Was.
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Each of us has undeveloped unrealized capacities for effective
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living. They await out true understanding of the mental and emotional
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forces at work within US forces which we share with the minds of men
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everywhere. It is toward a clearer picture of what goes on in our minds
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and our emotions that we work in these programs. Not that picture as it
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appears on the broad canvas of all humankind.
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But as it is revealed in the small dimensions of everyday in the lives of
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others very much.
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There's a Bible in every room in this house. Did you ever hear of such a
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thing outside of hotels I mean the Gideon people put him
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there.
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That's what daddy told me when we first started staying in hotels. He said the Gideon
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people put him there to solace the wayward travelers if they need solace or just to
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induce sleep if they needed sleep. But my grandfather put him here
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to keep everybody mindful of the word of the Lord. So wherever you are
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in this house he says the Lord can speak to you which
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I don't understand because it's a nice sized house but not as
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big as all that. Not like a hotel. There are
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lots of things about my grandfather I don't understand or the
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Lord either.
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They both seem to be two or three different people depending on who you talk to.
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I don't understand them. Maybe I will if we stay here long enough.
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If my grandmother takes whom sweet time about dying.
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Radio television and the University of Texas presents the minds of many.
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A series of explorations into effective living. Written by the Durham
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twins and directed by R. C. Norris. These programs are prepared with
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the assistance and counsel of the Hogg foundation for Mental Hygiene. And produced
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under a special grant from the Educational Television and Radio Center in cooperation
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with the National Association of educational broadcasters. Their aim a
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keener understanding of the forces universally a work in the minds of
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men.
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Each man fashions his fate to his own needs and in his own way.
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Boundaries do not set the line an ounce of belief nor Olson's mark that.
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They are confined alone by the invisible walls of the secret and seeking self.
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Today we have neither a story nor a sermon but a reflection from one small
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vantage point of faiths several and separate facets.
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It's odd to be in a house where somebody is dying. Because it
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isn't time for sorrow Kwai. But you can't be happy either.
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You don't know really just how to feel. At least I don't. And the
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others don't seem to except Uncle norm.
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He thinks the whole thing is just utter nonsense Madge just hanging around here and
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who knows for how long. I got a business to run. Well my mother is dying Norma
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and taking her own sweet time about it if we have to. If you'll excuse my saying so I
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won't call the cruel heartless look let's be realistic about this
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thing. Every day I'm here and I'm neglecting the store and for what. What good are we doing I never
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dreamed you thought so little of my mother. I think a lot of your mother. I always have.
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Haven't I always been good to a thoughtful considerate remember birthdays came up to see on Thanksgiving
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and Christmas. Yes but no right. But now what. What can I do
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for her. She's dying. But doctors can't do anything for us. They've said so. She's
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not in pain. She has everything she needs. She may live for weeks. We're going to hang around for
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weeks doing what. What can we do. Well we can pray for her nor pray what
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pray she lives pray she dies.
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It's all decided to pray for her so we're salvation. That is not decided no harm.
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How come it's not.
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She's a good woman the best I know why I know but she's she's not. Which is not a
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truly religious person not like Father Bruce and
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madge.
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Well not like I try to be who thinks very little of whose mother I
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love my mother.
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You know that that's why I'm so deeply concerned for her return also.
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And you think of the three of you vouch for as she's maybe got a chance to make it her like a large sigh or a
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fraternity or maybe a yacht club.
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Bush Norman that's SECRETARY CHU Well that's about what you had in mind was not what you don't understand these
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things you never will but you'd better take care for yourself norm.
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You're in danger too. God is not marked whatsoever a man
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so that shall he also reap but he that so with to the flesh shell of the flesh reap
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corruption. But he that so as to the spirit of the Spirit reap life
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everlasting.
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No no you don't. Every time I've ever asked you a straight question like that up
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goes a smokescreen of scripture. You say I don't understand these things.
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Well what's the matter Madge don't you understand them either. Or are you afraid to look at them head on to see how they
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translate in everyday terms and of course I'm not afraid. Why should I be. Because maybe if
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you ever stop to see what it is you're saying you believe you'd find out you didn't believe it.
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That's not true. What makes you so cynical so contemptuous of
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people with a steadfast faith.
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I don't think I am but by my lights you know what faith is to me Madge. It's
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something you live with all the way through. It's the feeling you've got that makes your life add up. It's just
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something you learn by rote in the nursery or something you're grabbing at in a pinch when things get rough. So
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so it seems to me that that's what your mother's got. She's not storing around at the last minute
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trying to cram for the exam or get enough sponsors to shove her through. She's got it made.
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She knows it. She's ready to stand on what she's got that steadfast faith to me
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Madge. And I'm not the one who is hanging around sneering at that I'm not the one who is claiming it's
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not enough.
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I mean inclined to agree with Uncle norm and so is dad.
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When I told him what I had heard he said you know baby Norm's righter than he knows about
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one thing. What's that daddy. What he said about grannies taking their own sweet time to
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die. That's what she's doing Steffi. She's dying with all the
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grace and the fineness and the sweetness she put in the living. It's a wonderful thing to
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see baby. But then your grandmother is a wonderful woman. She's not religious not
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by our family's meaning of the word whole but it depends on whose standards you take.
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I don't think I've ever heard your grandmother voice a biblical platitude. Then on the other hand
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I've never seen her do a mean or a petty or insensitive thing even in the name of
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righteousness. If living abundantly and joyously and
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selflessly running toward life with her arms open to get all it has to
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offer to give all it needs to take. If that's what you think of as religious
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Steffy then all her years have been devout.
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I can't see anything wrong with that. With Barry's reasoning I mean
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and I'm sure he believes what he said. He's never lied to me not
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about anything. But I'm not so sure he knows
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because he is after all the prodigal son.
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That's when I told a man that the prodigal son all over again
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mad off kicking up his heels all over the place giving nobody else a floor and
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dragging Stephanie with him. Goodness knows where that child is being or what
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she's exactly but putting the best face on it. The
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best days possible there were months went by we didn't hear from him didn't know where we were.
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As you hear all the time keeping things going taking over the load it wasn't
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easy.
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No sir it wasn't easy. When Dad had that long spell with his liver and somebody had to
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see the business and then mother's illness and trying to keep good help these
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things don't run themselves you know. We came up whenever we could Bruce but you know how it is with
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a store and all the norms so set on not blaming you marriage.
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I know how the norm is but where was Evan's turn out to
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right now when he thinks there might be something in it for him after mother is gone.
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Just like the prodigal son I tell you.
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Except that the Prodigal Son was repentant Evans isn't repentant.
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He just the same amiable charming pleased with himself on Pit not Heathen that he's
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always been. Maybe he hasn't got anything dory planned of what's that norm. Oh
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don't pay any attention Bruce it's just some of Norma smart alec ridiculing of things that
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are all things that he has no business making fun of.
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All I'm saying is Don't knock the man. A guy can't just repent. He's got to
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repent of something well Evans doesn't lack for that goodness knows. How do you know you've
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been following him around now don't be silly I can guess.
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After all he's just a well glorified travelling salesman you know the kind of thing
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they do. I know what the joke books are all right. That ought to be enough. And you know what the
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Bible says or you ought to except you repent. You shall all
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likewise perish that's what it says right in Luke the thirteenth chapter of Luke. It says
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something about charity too but we're not talking about charity we're talking about repentance.
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OK OK let's talk about repentance. Check me out on this one. Was that repentance
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pure and simple that sent the prodigal son home or was it a sudden growing thought that as
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things stood even his father's servants had a better shake than he did really know.
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If you can't speak of these things without blessed I don't think there's much profit in pursuing
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this. Not in the spirit.
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Oh don't let me break it up. I just wanted to get the facts straight. Madge will tell you I'm
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all for the fact it's a business man and you know that's the truth. I wouldn't
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expect you to know much about Evans or his motives. But you surprised me being so shaky on the
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prodigal son. And the truth is speaking of the truth mage you don't seem to savvy
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much about what's behind the homecoming of either one.
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The OS.
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Surprises me. I wouldn't think he'd know anything about the Bible
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any more than I do. Now. He was raised on it before he
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met Mother and had me but Uncle norm is a worshipper of Mammon.
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The store that's his religion my grandfather says a man can't
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serve two masters. He can't serve God and Mammon
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and uncle Norm has the store but there's no excuse for
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me.
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All those Bibles in the hotels and I never read them not
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once. I thought Daddy was all the solace I needed. And if I
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wasn't sleepy he'd tell me stories or sing to me till I was.
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Wish now I had read him because as it turns out I'm just a poor
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graceless child no spiritual training what ever. Really
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Evans I am profoundly shocked.
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I'm afraid I agree with Madge Evans Train Up a Child in the way he should
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go and when he is old he will not depart from your
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brother and sister here are proof of that son.
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It's always troubled my conscience that I left your own guidance in your dear
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mother's hands. She she doted on you so Evans.
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But her spiritual precepts were let's admit it lacks a lot don't
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agree and I don't agree about stuff either as a man thinketh in his heart
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so Izzy you'll agree with that won't you father. The Bible tells us
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that. Well if you could and I don't say you can but if you could know stuffies heart is
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I've been privileged to know what you would find it full of grace some creamed
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asparagus Taffy that was like Daddy not to let me down no
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matter what.
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Like the day I tripped going down the steps into the market and he
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picked me up offered me his arm and swept me to our table
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just daring anybody to live. But he couldn't pass it off this
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time. Not when we just sat down to our very first meal in this
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house and I had to be told that your head Stephanie man bow your
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head child.
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I don't think of your grandfather's going to say grace and our
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Father we thank thee for that which we are about to receive. We asked
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the to bless this food to thy uses and ourselves to thy
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service.
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Amen amen. All right Stephanie. You may raise
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your head now. Oh you mean you're not accustomed to saying
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grace. No man.
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They don't much I guess in restaurants and hotels.
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God gives us the food we eat Stephanie. It is only through his bountiful
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goodness that we have it to eat. Yes sir. That's why we was consecrated
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to his service. Remember that child.
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Yes grandfather I will. And a half. There is only
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one thing I don't understand why God doesn't give grandfather
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something that look great with him.
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Thank you.
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I don't know whether it was just grandfather's constant complaint with his stomach.
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He and Uncle Bruce take pills after every meal or whether it was my
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lack of grace that upset him so.
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But that's how I got my first visit with grandmother's grandfather usually goes in
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about this time of the afternoon for a quiet visit in to read Mother some comforting
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passages from the Scriptures. But he was rather indisposed
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just Allonby thoughts that you haven't seen or it might be a very nice thing for you both.
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Yes and it's so hard since you don't know any
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0.02 just stop with the psalm Stefanie there's a Bible on the table by her bed
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but don't stay too long. Now grandmother is very ill you know and she tires easily.
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Yes ma'am. I just knocked lightly on the door and tell you who it is.
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Yes. Who is it. J It's
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me grandmother. Oh come in dear come in.
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Hello Stephanie. Hello grandma. Come over here darling.
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Come close. Now sit there where I can get a good look.
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Oh you do. You do look like your lovely mother. Madge
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told me why your frightened child.
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Oh no I hate told you I'm dying and that frightened you of
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course. I remembered your age how I felt about dying. I
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set people off somehow. I didn't quite know how they went about her.
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And in those days I was terribly afraid of the things I didn't know about.
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And you're not now. No darling. I Phaidon mystery extremely
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comforting. Come 13 grandmother. Yes dear.
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We know so little. It would be dreadful wouldn't it if that were all
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but mystery now it is like tremendous bass and
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fresh air. You can breathe so much better knowing it's
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almost limitless. I see. Do your Stephanie
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high hopes will. Some people don't you know. Mystery makes
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some people uneasy. Just as space as your
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dear grandfather for one had to I'm afraid in Bruce.
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They can't bear those tremendous stretches of they are known so they've
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got to build a little shelter a sort of lean to
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absolute that they've known things to make them feel safe and
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cozy. Your grandfather for instance knows
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exactly what God looks like. He knows exactly what God
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thinks and how you feel. Don't you know. No I
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don't care. Do I need to.
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Well if you don't know what he's lived or how he feels
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how do you know you're not afraid of him.
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Just know I'm not afraid of dying though I hold
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mystery to. I've no reason to be afraid Stephanie.
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God walks very softly in this room. I know of him that
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he is loving and he will take care of me and that's all I need to know. But how
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do you know grandmother. How can you hold out your hand my
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dear my hand. Like this. Yes. Now
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tell me are you afraid that hand will do you harm.
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It's my own hand grandmother had sacked me dear it's part of you.
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So please God not who hold your head under the window dear.
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Just about there. Do you feel the breeze on your skin.
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Yes me and the sunshine yes. Can you
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tell where those feelings saw the dog. I
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know. God is a part of those things too.
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Can you feel anything so quiet and perfect
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merge with your own self. Stephanie No I
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think you must surely trust don't you. Of
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course you've just crossed yourself.
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I think it's odd don't you that somebody is unreligious as my
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grandmother would know so much about God. But then of course
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he's a very different person in her room. I doubt if she'd even recognize him in
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the library when he meets with the family for prayers in the library
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Nell. He is the most high. He thunders in the heavens and He
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gives his voice hail and stones and coals of far. And he is
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angry with the wicked every day. I'm glad this house is big and the
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walls are thick.
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Because grandmother much be afraid if she could hear God speaking in grandfather's voice
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he will not hearken unto me and will not do all these commandments and they
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shall despise my statutes. Or if you're short of horse my judgment
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I also will do this song to you. I will even not play it over you
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tell consumption and the burning lake you that show will consume the
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eyes and cause sorrow in the heart. And I will set my face against
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you and you shall be slain before you are rid of it. Of course
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grandmothers dung anyway but all the same God makes some pretty
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terrible threats down in the library when Grandfather reads the scriptures and
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if he were not yet for all this hearken unto me I will punish
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you seven times more for your sin and I will break the pride of
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your power and I will make your heaven as I own that you are a fish
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price and your strength shall be spent in vain. And if he
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were not for all this hearken unto me but walk contrary unto
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thee then I will walk contrary on to you also in
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fury and even I will chastise you seven
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times for your sins. I don't know.
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God's kind of new to me unless it's like Grandmother says that
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he's part of me and has been travelling around with deddy me all this time.
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It's hard to understand how he can be so different. Right here in this
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very same house. But then everybody in this house looks
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different depending on whose eyes you're looking with. I know one thing
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though I'm glad it's the way it is. If God has to look different
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to different people I'm glad he said his nicest in grandmother's room.
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Now a new or.
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A whole.
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New or.
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New or. A
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nod to discuss religion. Here are Dr. Bernice Moore consultant to the Hogg foundation for
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Mental Hygiene. Chaplain Major Raymond T Matheson assistant chief of personnel
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Air Force chaplains and Chaplain Colonel James R. Davidson and Chief Air Force
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chaplains. Washington D.C..
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As we take a look at the various characters in this dramatization it's quite evident that
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all of them have a capacity for religion. But it's also evident that some of
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those particularly the men in looking at several others such as the grandmother and
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mad and. Will Stephanie seem to think that there's a
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misuse of religion in there particularly as nominally others describe it.
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Well Matty I don't think we saw a misuse of religion in this
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particular family group. I had the feeling as you do that we saw more
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diversification approach and depth.
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To religion and religious faith. But you know and
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certainly the clinicians know. That we have many
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people who use religion in a way that
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has nothing to do with the basic integration and development of
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personality. For instance let me give you just a few examples of what I'm
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thinking about. The person who always has to have
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whatever he or she is say boasted whether it
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is real or not we have a fancy word for it even if you theologians do we call it
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autistic thinking. That is they will allow nothing to come into their
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thinking that doesn't affect their own point of view very
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positively and so I quote glibly of the Bible to back up the sort of
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thing that they're trying to put across whether it's reasonable or whether it is kindly or
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anything else. Another one we see is the sort of person who
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uses his religion particularly the Old Testament of Jimmy. As
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a basis for very autocratic authoritarian relationships with
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people and he can prove to you he has a perfect right to dominate
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everybody from the cap to the Canary to grandmother to granddaughter. Anyone that comes in
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the picture. Then of course we have some people who will escape complete
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responsibility for their acts. They say it's God's Will doesn't make a
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difference what happened. Of course I happen to think that many times they happen along
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and then of course I think that the
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worst misuse of religion is the intolerant bigot
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who sustains a point of view that is really detrimental to his fellow man by
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quoting scriptures to hold a point that has no justification
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in human relations in relations to our God or anything else.
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JIMMY What about Naaman his comments on the prodigal son this
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misunderstanding of that word mad of course.
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Norm's comments indicate that he is a
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MUST be a religiously illiterate person.
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Because it's the one he has hold of a
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thought there which is. Lead to something profound he
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isn't quite able to bring it into focus actually.
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What he's trying to say is that there is a
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misinterpretation here. The parable of the prodigal son
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and he sees it and senses it and yet he can't focus it perhaps we could
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focus it by suggesting that perhaps when
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the prodigal son got out of the pigsty and started home
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he did have mixed motives he might have wanted a good meal he might have
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one want and clean clothing. But if he did These are normal
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human desires. The point of the story it seems to
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me in so far as the son is concerned is that he
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had a remembered confidence in his father
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and he had a confidence that were he to arise from this bad environment
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and go toward his father. He would be accepted. This is religiously
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profound. And this is the kind of trust that anyone
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it seems to me who looks to God as a father has.
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And this is the thing I believe you're talking about. When you speak
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of mental health. This feeling of access to our
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source of power which is great and open
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and which will receive you and make you whole again.
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God walks his softest and grandmother's room one of a series of
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explorations into effective living titled the minds of men.
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A presentation of radio television at the University of Texas. Taking part in the
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discussion in today's broadcast. Dr. Bernice Moore. And Chaplain Colonel
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James R. Davidson and Chaplain Major Raymond T Matheson. These
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programs were prepared for broadcast under the supervision of Robert F. thank him
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special music by Eleanor Paige. Janie Morton was heard as Stephanie.
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And Kirk speaking. This program is distributed by the National Association of
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educational broadcasters.
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This is the Radio Network.
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