We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God … - C. West Churchman

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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

C. West Churchman

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

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