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Lessons learned from grandpa

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I came home and noticed a campfire under the pine trees. Well, it’s not exactly my home; it just feels like it.

Fashion from the (Wall) Street

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By Marla Boone

Is your check engine light on?

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A few years ago, I was on a road trip, and it was early in the morning and pouring rain.

BBB warns about skimming scams

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The next time you go to pay or receive money from a fuel pump, ATM or point-of-sale (POS) system, be aware of the signs the machine may have a skimming device attached. Skimming occurs when devices illegally installed on machines you normally insert/swipe your credit or debit card capture data or record cardholders’ PINs. They can also be small, pocketable devices tucked away in dishonest employees’ pockets for easy access to run your card through. These scammers may even use small cameras to capture you entering your PIN number as well. Criminals use the data to create fake debit or credit cards and then steal from victims’ accounts.

The compass is broken

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A compass is a very important tool for survival to a person that depends on it to keep them going in the right direction. If it gets broken everything changes quickly around you. There is no longer any certainty that you are going in the right direction. You could be walking in a direction that you think is safe and suddenly be in grave danger. You start to doubt everything including yourself. You could get so discouraged and tired that you might be tempted to give up. Most of us even though we might be tempted to give up would probably do everything we could to survive. We would at least hold on to the hope that maybe someone would come and rescue us.

I am thankful for the Book

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Imagine what it would be like to never have seen a book. Before Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, no one had ever seen a printed copy of the Word of God, let alone any other book. John Wycliffe’s followers had translated the Bible into Middle English, an older form of English in the year 1380 but if you wanted to buy a copy of it back then the cost would have been the equivalent of around $80,000 in today’s money. An entire city would pool their money to buy one copy! People would be assigned to read it out loud by shifts 24 hours a day. People would stand in line and be amazed to hear the Word’s of the living God in their own language for the first time. God’s Word was precious to them.

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