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...responsibility is a lot of pressure. I?m on the front lines of this $40 billion mailing - what I do with my $300 could influence stock prices this summer or alter Fed policy for its August 27 meeting. (And I know the bond markets are watching me like a hawk.) So I?ve been thinking very carefully...
...whom God lets suffer, is a good person. But the debate in Job actually concludes on a fourth assertion, stated by the Lord from out of the whirlwind, that Job has no business questioning Him. ("Where were you when I planned the earth? Do you show the hawk how to fly?") Some believers are frustrated by this pulling of rank, but the Sunday group accepts it. Says Joy MacKenzie: "I think we're shortsighted when we try to think of why God does things in relationship to us. That presupposes it's about us. Maybe it's about something that...
...rejoiced at seeing birding referred to as "hotter than ever" on your cover, and I agree that a passion for birds leads to a concern for their habitat. Last September I testified before Congress as part of an effort to catalog private conservation success stories, including Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, the Natural Bridge of Virginia, Cypress Bay Plantation in South Carolina and the Roney Land and Cattle Company in California...
...merlin has come to pose upon a post outside a kitchen window - dove-colored and innocent, until you look again and see it is no dove, but a merlin, that is, a pigeon-hawk. Yesterday, not far from the post, we found a catbird lying dead on its side, unmarked by struggle or wound. Perhaps it died of cardiac infarction or some other internal disaster, but I suspect the merlin...
...albino hawk has come to the valley. I like to watch him presiding over these complexities. I see him riding the air currents that curl up from the ridges on either side as the wind flows through the north-south valley. He was born a red-tailed hawk, but colored all white, a relatively rare occurrence but seen sufficiently often to earn the albino a short item in the bird books...