Light side Baby gentile A
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girl arrived early for confirmation class, bubbling with excitement. She told me her mother was expecting a baby and they had seen it on an ultrasound. I asked
her if the baby was a boy or a girl. She said they didn’t know, because they couldn’t see the “gentiles.” Luverne A. Jacobson Wilsonville, Ore.
Hearing voices A boy in the nursery was trying to figure out where the voice was coming from when he heard, over the nursery speakers, my announcement about collecting underwear for children in need. Ragen told his mommy, “There’s a lady stuck in the wall and she really needs underwear.” Julie Bailey Saginaw, Mich.
Inquiring minds … Our 5-year-old grandson, Karl, accompanied my wife to her appointment with the orthopedic doctor, who has a life-size skeleton displayed in the waiting room. Karl asked what it was and my wife explained its purpose. He studied it briefly and then asked, “Well, did the rest of him go to heaven?” Paul Shockey Oakland, Md.
BOB VOJTKO
By Richard Bansemer
‘Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence’ (3-4)
ACROSS 1. “Rank on rank the __ of heaven”
5. True Market Val. 8. “You perceive from thoughts from __” (Psalm 139:2; NIV)
12. One of the HOMES 13. “Cherubim with sleepless __”
14. __ contendere 15. Power to move 17. Brag 18. Cousins to alpacas 19. “From the __ of endless day” 21. Away from NNW 22. Pouches 23. Schooltime outside “play” (abbr.)
26. Santa helper 28. Various grains 31. Our proud selves 33. “
Sad__.org” (website about animal adoption)
35. Salvador __, Spanish artist 36. “As with ceaseless __ they cry”
“Thirty-seven candy corns, 19 Reese’s Pieces, three fun size Snickers. It’s like this after every Halloween.”
38. Small amount 40. Photographs 41. “High __” (Western movie) 43. Bikini top 45. Missing part in a text 47. Put lots of holes in the yard 51. A few last words 52. “Spreads its __ on the way” 54. Got on board 55. Amer. Dental Association 56. Soft, creamy white cheese 57. Turned red, perhaps 58. __ Angeles 59. Longest division of geological time
DOWN 1. “Comes, the pow’rs of __ to vanquish”
2. Soviet city (var.) 3. The destroyer (Hindu, var.) 4. Overflows 5. Makes a fuzzy surface 6. Myriagram (abbr.) 7. Goes off direction 8. Indigestion fixer 9. A size of paper used especially in Britain
10. Styptic 11. Returns to the soil 16. Tear down 20. “What no eye has seen, nor __ heard ...” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
23. Pastor’s more formal address (abbr.)
24. Self-consciousness 25. Happen at the same time 27. Living off the __ of the land 29. __ Lilly, drug company 30. “At his feet the __-winged seraph”
32. Went searching for 34. Tent-like shelters 37. Many eras 39. Used up coffee ground 42. Pertaining to ships 44. Vacation island off Venezuela 45. “Alleluia, __ Most High!” 46. Have a cigar, it’s __! 48. Swiss river 49. Like the kings who visited Bethlehem
50. Home of Adam and Eve 53. Much __ about nothing
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