Word: petered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter said, "Sir, I'm wondering if you're not wrong there, just in that one place...
...Then Peter said, "Sir, what was wrong with that...
...Jesus grinned and answered him plainly, though on the bias: "Peter, aren't we learning that God is my father...
...half-hour later he'd led them back to the olive grove and the cave at Gethsemane where they'd been sleeping. Eight of them went straight in, dead beat, and stretched out on the floor near the oil press. But Jesus took Peter, James and John and pressed on a few yards into the dark grove. He asked the inner three to wait while he prayed. They were tired as the others, but they nodded that they'd wait, and he walked ahead some dozen paces to the oldest tree. It had half consumed one end of a table...
...Abba," which was any child's first name for Father. They'd heard him use it in private prayer a time or two, and John especially thought it was eerie and unbecoming. The God who was leading this man was no father tossing a child. By then Peter and James had dozed off, but John--being younger--managed to stay half awake through most of the prayer. He could hardly see Jesus, just flashes of his face when the moon broke clear, and then it was wrenched by an agony greater than the joy they'd seen when he came...