Giving thanks in troubled times
Saturday, November 22, 2003
I read again the accounts of the great New Madrid earthquake. The earth shook violently. Cracks opened in the ground. Bottomless holes formed. The Mississippi River ran north instead of south. People filled the churches; for they truly believed that the world was coming to an end.
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