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No One Warns Young People To Follow Adam's Example. He Waited Till God Saw His Need. Then God Made Adam Sleep, Prepared For His Mate, And Brought Her To Him.

Eagles Are Very Tolerant And Very Adaptable, But They Have To Get Established First. When Birds Are Setting Up Their Breeding Territory, They Are The Most Susceptible To Being Discouraged.

Oh, The Fullness, Pleasure, Sheer Excitement Of Knowing God On Earth! I Care Not If I Never Raise My Voice Again For Him, If Only I May Love Him, Please Him. Mayhap In Mercy He Shall Give Me A Host Of Children That I May Lead Them Through The Vast Star Fields To Explore His Delicacies Whose Finger Ends Set Them To Burning. But If Not, If Only I May See Him, Touch His Garments, Smile Into His Eyes - Ah Then, Not Stars Nor Children Shall Matter, Only Himself.

Father, Let Me Be Weak That I Might Loose My Clutch On Everything Temporal. My Life, My Reputation, My Possessions, Lord, Let Me Loose The Tension Of The Grasping Hand. Even, Father, Would I Lose The Love Of Fondling. How Often I Have Released A Grasp Only To Retain What I Prized By 'harmless' Longing, The Fondling Touch. Rather, Open My Hand To Received The Nail Of Calvary, As Christ's Was Opened- That I, Releasing All, Might Be Released, Unleashed From All That Binds Me Now. He Thought Heaven, Yea, Equality With God, Not A Thing To Be Clutched At. So Let Me Release My Grasp.

In My Own Experience I Have Found That The Most Extravagant Dreams Of Boyhood Have Not Surpassed The Great Experience Of Being In The Will Of God, And I Believe That Nothing Could Be Better. That Is Not To Say That I Do Not Want Other Things, And Other Ways Of Living, And Other Places To See, But In My Right Mind I Know That My Hopes And Plans For Myself Could Not Be Any Better Than He Has Arranged And Fulfilled Them. Thus May We All Find It, And Know The Truth Of The Word Which Says, He Will Be Our Guide Even Until Death.