In
her beautiful novel about Maine
On the way, the woman notes a number of wooden stakes randomly scattered about the property, with no discernible order. Each is painted white and trimmed in yellow, like the captain's house. Curious, she asks Captain Tilley what they mean. When he first plowed the ground, he says, his plow snagged on many large rocks just beneath the surface. So he set out the stakes where the rocks lay in order to avoid them in the future.
In a sense, this is what God has done with the Ten Commandments… He has said, "These are the trouble spots in life. Avoid these, and you won't snag your plow."
-- John Killinger in To My People with Love
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On the way, the woman notes a number of wooden stakes randomly scattered about the property, with no discernible order. Each is painted white and trimmed in yellow, like the captain's house. Curious, she asks Captain Tilley what they mean. When he first plowed the ground, he says, his plow snagged on many large rocks just beneath the surface. So he set out the stakes where the rocks lay in order to avoid them in the future.
In a sense, this is what God has done with the Ten Commandments… He has said, "These are the trouble spots in life. Avoid these, and you won't snag your plow."
-- John Killinger in To My People with Love
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