Emphasis Preaching Journal
This text places a strong...
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This text places a strong emphasis upon remembering. The Israelites, before entering the Promised Land, are told to remember how God provided for them in the wilderness for forty years. In the novel, Open Heart, by Frederick Buechner, Antonio, a middle-aged schoolteacher, separated from his wife, muses, "Looking back on the movies of my life, I find that, as I might have suspected, the scenes I shot are usually not the really significant scenes ... The scenes that I shoot aren't usually the significant ones; they tend to be the significant ones simply because I happened to shoot them.