Before the flurry of last month’s Puppet Festival, M&M Puppeteers’ Reunion dinner and performance, Compassion In Action Day and more, you might remember that we were tackling some old boxes of junk at home from which I pulled a folder called “Cindy’s Thoughts and Ideas.”
Well, since finding that folder, I have decided to put the “Northside Hospital Plan of Action” into effect for my papers. When Darrell was having all his “big tests” done last year, it was interesting to note that the hospital has virtually gone paperless. While patients still have to fill out everything under the sun when they arrive for tests; at the end of the day, all the paperwork that has been generated is scanned and then shredded. What a great idea!
So, to that end, I am doing the same thing. For example, today I had to send off our 2008 agreement with Camp Gideon to secure the dates for next summer’s Camp Rocks. I scanned the documents, filed them in my computer under Camp Rocks 2008…and then THREW MY COPIES AWAY! Freedom!
Well, back to the box. I found an interesting note I had tucked away in that “Cindy” folder many years ago. Today, I scanned it, stored it in my computer and threw away that paper, too. Progress! However, what I saved many years ago is good enough to share today, too:
There lives at this time in Judea a man of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus Christ, whom the barbarians esteem
as a prophet, but His followers love and adore Him as the off-spring of the immortal God. He calls back the dead
from the graves and heals all sorts of diseases with a word or touch. He is a tall man, well shaped and of an amiable and
reverend aspect; His hair of a color that can hardly be matched, falling· into graceful curls, waving about and very agreeably
couching His head, running as a stream to the front after the fashion of the Nazarites; His forehead high, large and imposing;
His cheeks without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a lovely red; His nose and mouth formed with exquisite symmetry; His beard,
and of a color suitable to His hair, reaching below His chin and parted in the middle like a fork, His eyes bright blue, clear
and serene, look innocent, dignified, manly and mature. In proportion of body most perfect and captivating; His arms
and hands delectable to behold. He rebukes with majesty, counsels with mildness, His whole address, whether in word or deed,
being -eloquent and grave. No man has seen Him laugh, yet His manners are exceedingly pleasant, but He has wept frequently
in the presence of men. He is temperate, modest and wise. A man for His extraordinary beauty and divine perfection,
surpassing the children of men in every sense.”
believed to have been written by Publius Lentulus, President of Judea in the reign of Tiberius Caesar
Very interesting. I wonder if it’s true?
So, when is camp?
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