Pastor Keith Marshall on Religious Exemption

 If you consider yourself a Christian, what does your faith in Jesus Christ exempt you from? Read Pastor Keith Marshall's answer to that question in the photo below. Click on the photo to open an enlargement of it.

(Photo posted by Lori Townsend Dropik on Facebook

on September 23, 2021)

Haiku

To an adventurer

Never quench your thirst

for adventure. Adventure

is your cup of tea.

             --Monty Gilmer

An American Thief

 AN AMERICAN THIEF

The quotation in the second stanza is Ephesians 4:28

from the Contemporary English Version of the Bible.

"Old thieves never die,"

said a thief on facing his

thirteenth robbery

charge. "They only steal away."

Once a thief, always a thief?

"If," as Saint Paul said,

"you are a thief, quit stealing.

Be honest and work

hard, so you will have something

to give to people in need."

Monty Gilmer

Fable: The Pot and the Kettle

FABLE: THE POT AND THE KETTLE

by Monty Gilmer

The Pot called the Kettle

black and snapped, "You need to

clean up your act." Indeed

black, the Kettle replied,

"You, blackguardly Pot, ought

to practice what you preach."

A slightly different version of this poem of mine has just been published under the title "Fable" in the 2022 edition of The Almanac for Farmers & City Folk.

A quotation from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans

(New King James Version):