The Motorcycle Ride

I think back just a few years when I was sixteen years old and a printing apprentice. A fellow apprentice was totally engrossed in motorcycles. In those days, we rode British motorcycles, and he had an AJS-350.

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Stranded on Earth

Death is the surest evidence that our Father loves us. He knows us and remembers us. He does not leave us stranded here on earth.

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Parable of the Lazy Hawk

A noble red-tailed hawk once sailed majestically through the skies surveying the sordid world below. The skies, the air, sunlight, life, and freedom were his. He ruled his realm. He was happy. He was free. But his sharp eyes noticed a dead squirrel on the road below. Normally he only ate fresh food; but succumbing to laziness, and giving no forethought, he lowered himself for a closer look, extended his talons, and seized the prey. Alas, he’d landed right in front of a speeding truck. The truck swerved, and by the narrowest of margins missed the foolish hawk who launched himself back into the air, a wiser bird, having this once been granted a second chance.

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Roadkill

As I drove to church I noticed a red-tailed hawk flying ahead to my right. He was being buzzed and harassed by two blackbirds. Suddenly he swooped lower and to the left, right in front of my vehicle. I thought at first that his maneuver was an effort to evade the pesky blackbirds, but instead he landed upon a dead squirrel on the roadway right in front of me. During the next second his talons gripped the squirrel, I swerved to the right to miss him, and his trajectory and momentum managed to lift him safely off to my left. It was a close call.

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