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Making the impossible, possible

I heard the story of an elderly minister who liked to visit people in hospitals. He often would take along a little embroidered bookmark that he carried in his Bible. On the back of the bookmark were a group of tangled threads with no apparent pattern. He would hand this bookmark, with the back facing up, to those who were hurting or upset and say, “Look at that and tell me what it says.”
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  • Clarke drops two at Davis County

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  • Area baseball

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  • Roadrunners roll to 10th straight win

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  • Patty Bethards Osceola

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    July 9, 2014 - 10:18 am

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