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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
Letter to my
best friend
My Dear Friend,
Through the years,
you have been the
nearest and dearest friend
I have ever known. It has
occurred to me from time to
time that I have taken your
friendship
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or when
someone
is needed. Sometimes it is
early - Sometimes it is late
but You have never com
plained.
When life seems compli
cated and questions are
unanswered, You always
come through with the per- *
feet solution at the right
time. Your thoughtfulness
far outweighs that of any
other friend. Not a day goes
by that You do not show
Your concern for me in so
many ways.
You have been more gen
What happened
to Noah’s Ark?
On the east corner of
the old Bassett Hotel
in Fort Valley that
burned down during June
rested a petrified tree trunk
placed there by hotel owners
nearly a century ago.
“It was during the 1920 s
that I first saw it,” said Fred
Shepard. “It was a conversa
tion piece among the towns
folk. I used to ride my bicy
cle over to the Bassett Hotel
and marvel at the petrified
tree.” A petrified section of
wood is every bit as hard as a
piece of stone. Wood petrifies
when buried underground
and exposed to the seepage
of water over many centu
ries. Water seeps through
the mud and sand and fills
empty cells of the decaying
wood with mineral depos
its until the whole structure
become solid stone.
This petrified tree caused
me to ponder the present con
dition of Noah’s Ark. Made
of gopher wood and about
the size of a large ocean liner,
the Ark measured 450 feet
long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet
high, and comprised three
interior decks. According to
Genesis, Noah’s Ark came
to rest on the mountains
of Ararat, located in east
ern Turkey near the Iranian
border. The Ark has either
decayed or is now petrified.
Several huge trees in my
backwoods felled by the tor
nado of 1975-31 years ago
- have long since decayed.
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erous to me than should be
expected from anyone. Not
only have You showered me
with necessities but have
given so much that I could
do without.
Friendship such as Yours
comes only through genu
ine love. “Greater love hath
no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his
friends.” (John 15:13)
You have shown exceed
ing love for me. I know of
no other who would go the
length You have gone. You
laid down your life for me,
granting life eternal.
As I consider how ungrate
ful I sometimes am, a haunt
ing question strikes my
mind: “Would I be willing to
lay down my life for you?”
Never have I been or ever
will I be deserving of the
greatest friendship ever . .
. . . the friendship of Jesus
Christ.
I say I am Your friend
but do so little to show it.
My vocabulary is limited to
the convenient, though inad
equate words of “THANK
YOU” for a friendship
beyond description.
Concluded in humility
from a lowly creature.
Therefore, unless the Ark is
buried under snow, it too has
decayed because, according
to Biblical chronology, the
Great Flood occurred over
4,300 years ago. If the Ark
is still intact, it lies petrified
under ice and snow.
There have been reports
throughout history of a large
boat on a mountain range in
this region. Earliest refer
ences - beginning in the 3rd
Billy Powell
Columnist
two decades, the search for
Noah’s Ark has received
international attention.
Dozens of expeditions to
the Ararat region, mostly by
American Christian Groups,
have led to numerous claims,
but no proof.
Reportedly, Pres. Jimmy
Carter, on his way to visit
the Shah of Iran in 1977,
purposely flew over Ararat
in Air Force One to look for
signs of the Ark.
Is Noah’s Ark a fact? In a
national poll, 69 percent of
the respondents said “yes”
and 31 percent
See POWELL, page 6B
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Sale of quilts like the one above will benefit Honduran children.
Mennonltes quilt, crafts sale
to benefit Honduran children
Special to the Journal
Education is critical for
children everywhere, but
the children of Honduras’
poorest families have lit
tle chance to succeed in
school. They seldom have
seen a book or put pencil
to paper before beginning
school, and large classes
mean public school teach
ers have little time for
the individual attention
they need to catch up.
Poor children also come
to school hungry in this
Central American nation
where more than three
fourths of the children
under age seven suffer
from malnutrition.
“We can’t turn away,”
said Mary Yoder, one of
the organizers of the
seventh annual Peach
Cobbler Mennonite Relief
Auction to be held Sept.
15 and 16 at the Georgia
Nationals Fairgrounds
in Perry. “The Peach
Cobbler Auction is a way
to use the skills that are
part of our heritage to
raise money to aid those
in need.”
The sale features hand
made quilts, crafts, home
canned foods, soft serve
ice cream, fairly traded
third-world crafts, and
of course, peach cobbler.
Last year’s sale raised
more than $22,000.
The fund-raising focus
of this year is Mujeres
Amigas Millas Aparte
- Women Friends Miles
Apart, which was begun by
the Honduran Evangelical
Mennonite Church to
build a wall of protection
around children who are
born in extreme poverty.
century B.
C. - sug
gest it was
common
knowledge
that the
Ark could
be viewed
from
Mount
Ararat.
Over
the past
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At A Glance
The 2006 Peach Cobbler
Mennonite Relief Auction
will offer:
• Brunswick Stew Supper,
Friday, 6-7:30 p.m.
• Silent Auction, Friday,
6-8 p.m.
• Hymn Sing, Friday 7:30-
9 p.m.
• Auction Preview, Friday,
6 - 9 p.m.
• Pancake & Sausage
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9:30 a.m.
• Live Auction, Saturday,
10 a.m. - mid-afternoon (see
samples at the website).
• Ten Thousand Villages
(a Virginia Highlands non
profit store) fairly-traded
products made by artisans
around the world: holiday
ornaments, jewelry, bas
kets, shade-grown coffee
and musical instruments,
Saturday
• Lunch with barbequed
chicken, peach cobbler, pie,
soft ice cream, and a veg
etarian option, Saturday
beginning at Noon.
• Children’s activities,
quilting demonstrations,
Saturday
• Homemade arts, crafts,
and food donated by area
Mennonites, available for
purchase Saturday
The program helps to
improve their lives and
opens new horizons for
their future through com
munity-based preschools,
scholarships for school
children, special programs
for handicapped children,
seminars and literacy
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Attendees at the 2006
Peach Cobbler Auction
will have an opportunity
to support MAMA, which
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Central Committee’s
Global Family Program,
either through a sponsor
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or $240 a year, or through
one-time donations in any
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The annual Peach
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blersale.org is a collabora
tive effort of Mennonites
from across the Southeast,
who draw on their rich
heritage of handicrafts,
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The event will take place
in the Georgia Living
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National Fairgrounds,
1-75 Exit 135 in Perry,
Georgia. Admission is free
and the public is welcome
at all events.
“The Peach Cobbler
Auction is like many
other Mennonite relief
sales around the country.
It’s a reunion, a time to
connect with old friends;
it’s a showcase for qual
ity handwork; and it’s an
event designed to raise
money for a good cause,”
Mary Maynard, organizer,
said.
The weekend’s fes
tivities begin with a
Brunswick Stew supper,
Silent Auction, hymn sing
and preview of the quilts
starting at 6:00 pm on
Friday, Sept. 15, at the
fairgrounds. Saturday’s
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Ways
to end
wetting
the bed
Question: What causes
a child to wet the bed?
Our 5-year-old soaks his
sheets nearly every night,
and it drives me crazy.
Dr. Dobson: There are about
7 million kids in the United
States who wet the bed.
They are a misunderstood
lot. Many of their parents
believe their bed-wetting is
deliberate and that it can be
eliminated by punishment.
Others think these kids are
just too lazy to go to the
bathroom. These are wrong
and unfortunate notions.
Bed-wetting is often caused
by medical factors such as
a small bladder, physical
immatu
rity or
other
physi
cal con
ditions.
That’s
why you
should
begin by
consulting
a pedia
trician or
a urolo-
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Dr. James
Dobson
Focus on the Family
www.family.org
gist when bed-wetting
starts. About 50 percent
of the kids can be helped
or cured by medication.
For other boys or girls, the
problem is emotional in ori
gin.
Any change in the psycho
logical environment of the
home may produce midnight
moisture. During summer
camps conducted for young
children, the directors rou
tinely put plastic mattress
covers on the beds of all the
little visitors. The anxiety
associated with being away
from home apparently cre
ates a high probability of
bed-wetting during the first
few nights, and it is particu
larly risky to be sleeping on
the lower level of bunk beds!
There is a third factor that
I feel is a frequent cause of
enuresis.
During a child’s tod
dler years, he may wet the
bed simply because he’s
too immature to maintain
nighttime bladder control.
Some parents, in an effort
to head off another episode,
begin getting these kids up
at night to go to the potty.
The youngster is still sound
asleep, but he or she is told
to “go tinkle” or whatever.
After this conditioning has
been established, the child
who needs to urinate at night
dreams of being told to “go.”
Particularly when jostled or
disturbed at night, the child
can believe he or she is being
ushered to the bathroom. I
would recommend that par
ents of older bed wetters
stop getting them up at
night, even if the behavior
continues for a while.
- See DOBSON, page 6B
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