Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite his flashy performance, the freshmen point guard didn't let anyone forget his age, succumbing to a number of rookie mistakes...
...patience and compassion are crucial to the intimacy that so many establish with this long gone man. The promises he makes in the Gospel of John, in the resonant (and quite literal) King James translation, have strengthened endangered men and women from the terrors of Roman martyrdom till today--"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you...that where I am, there ye may be also...
...elder brother Amos, who had been her favorite but had died in agony with a breathing demon--tuberculosis--when she was nine. The angel had Amos' startling eyes, a light brown, but his voice plainly said, "I'm Gabriel, from God, to ask if you'll agree to let him make on you his only...
...that, she looked well past him--the rim of the skyline back of his shoulders--and there was an odd cloud forming itself in the shape of a dark bird rushing toward her. She met the angel's eyes again, gave an awkward nod and said, "I'm Miriam. Let me be God's slave...
...stay where he was. Maybe this was no demon at all but the bitterest lesson Jesus must learn before the incomparably bitter cross--Jesus had told John more than once that a cross would stand near the end of his road. Now John heard one more thing, several times: "Let this cup pass. Abba, not this cup. But, sir, your will." Appalling as the transaction was, even John was asleep before it ended...