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While watching our teen-aged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago, we both noticed an absolute truth; Our son could not seem to grasp that he wasn’t able to block every shot that was put up by the opposing team.

“You look great,” someone said to me last week. “Have you lost weight?” Which is always nice to hear, but it got me thinking.In the first place, I haven’t lost a pound, I assure you. I eat just as much bread as I always have, which is to say all the bread I can find.

The history of God is well documented, and so is the history of Man’s stubborn, or rebellious behavior, in the Holy Word of God, the Bible. This type of behavior has caused billions and billions of humans to end up in a burning, or least a very hot Hell, without a drop of water.

Allen History Marches On Allen has had several tornadoes over its life but the most recent one had its own unique qualities. Only twister I know of that placed a heavy rider mower on its owner’s roof. Or leave “Skeeter” Hogue scratching his head over whose roof was laying on his own roof.

Be careful how you vote My late father had pretty traditional views when it came to politics. As one who survived the Great Depression, he thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was sent by a Protestant (probably Baptist) God to help poor, of whom we were among the poorest, people survive.

An elderly gentleman had been having serious hearing problems for a number of years. Finally, he went to an audiologist to see what could be done to help. Once he was fitted with a set of hearing aids, the man’s hearing improved 100%.A month later, the gentleman returned for his checkup.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.Imagine this: You’re a single mom, with two young children and no family in town and no real friends to lean on. You make it day by day, as long as nothing goes wrong.

Little Things MatterI’ve been thinking a lot lately. Really cold weather does that. For instance, who did I root for at the Superbowl? Simple, a lifetime ago my wife and I saw my Uncle JC wearing a uniform, doing sideline security in Kansas City for the Chiefs. So we became instant Chief fans.

Sharp minds for little children A first grade school teacher had 25 students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the first half of a wellknown proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.

First of all, my favorite story of the week . . . A man was sitting at a table in a bar and was about as drunk as it’s possible to get.A group of men noticed his condition and decided to be good Samaritans and take him home.