Word: thought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought we played very tentative offensively," Delaney-Smith said. "I don't know why--if I did, I'd fix it. Although even as we played tentative, we got some great shots. To hang on is really all that matters right now. I have to figure out a way not to lose a 20-point lead...
Judas never thought of fleeing. The one choice left apparently was to beg his teacher's pardon and then use the rope. So he asked the final question of all: "You're Jesus, aren...
...that I should follow him into the lake. Waist deep in the water, I felt him pour handfuls down the long fresh scar on my back--the relic of unsuccessful surgery a month before. Jesus suddenly told me, "Your sins are forgiven." Appalled by my dire physical outlook, I thought ungratefully, "That's the last thing I need"; so I asked him, "Am I also cured?" He said, "That too." Then, as though I'd forced his hand, he turned and climbed ashore with me well behind...
...bread came around, followed by the wine, Jesus said only, "My body...my blood." Good Jews that they were, a few nearly gagged at the thought of drinking blood, but no one refused. Practically speaking, he was already dead--they could almost see it--and everything from here on was only a sign, to keep in memory, everything but the craven fear that was already closing on them entirely...
They heard him say "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...