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Moses said,"   ---     "
Jesus said, " ---  "
Paul said, " --- "
Ron said,  "Gargle with salt water"

How many years?

Thirteen years ago I received my Instructor license from the State of Maine.  I was approved to teach driving in the car.  November, 2001 I completed requirements to teach in both the car and the classroom.

In the years since I often heard,  "you must be very patient." Many polite students, a handful mean and a sad awareness of those freshman (and older) unable to read.

Over one thousand, fewer than 1500, young drivers driving while I sat in the passenger seat and coached, taught, instilled confidence. 

My license expired today.  THE  END.  MJ sends.

Walk more than five miles - OOB

The tide was out.  First late winter day with temperatures reaching toward 48F.  We walked.   Considerable stretches of the beach were flat.  Distances from the sand  mounds to low tide water near 200 feet at times.  I had not recalled the shallow slope.  This August when the water temperature is 61F I will return and wade to my knees two hundred feet from dry sand.

OOB in Maine is Old Orchard Beach.  Likely over one hundred motels near the beach.  Eight open ninety two remain encased in banks of snow.  Rapidly as May unfolds the motels open and fill in July and August.  Do you have an interest in seeing a Canadian male in a swim string. NOT PRETTY.  If so however, walk the beach after 10AM on one of  our four hot days.  3/11/2014

The season of Lent - writing!

Dictionary definition.
Mrs. Sykora, my high school English teacher said college bound
students needed a dictionary. She recommended Webster's Seventh
New Collegiate Dictionary.

Using graduation cash I bought the dictionary cited above.
I still have it. Tattered but open  beside me at this moment.
Copyright 1963.

Why the background information? The 1963 dictionary defines Jesus
as follows:  "the founder of the Christian religion."

My 1983, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Ninth Edition started afresh:
"the Jewish religious teacher whose life, death and resurrection as
reported  by the Evangelists are the basis of the Christian message
of salvation."

The 2003, Eleventh Edition kept these words.

What say you? Jesus: The Son of the Living God sent at just the right
time   as above.  Additional, we know a Good Book with a depth
of concrete  details. We also have seen the heart of His followers.

WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS.
ALL OUR SINS AND GRIEFS TO BEAR.

Words from a hymn lyrics by Joseph Scriven, 1855.
THE END - dlj - 25FEB14