Light side
A nursing home lesson W
hen I was a student pastor, I was running late to a nurs- ing home visit. When I realized I didn’t have on my clerical collar shirt, I apologized for not being dressed
properly. When the member finally stopped laughing, she said, “Did you forget, Ed, that I’m blind?” and went on to tell me that what counts is not what I wear, but what my heart is like. “And your heart,” she said, “is very good.” I’ve remembered that les- son for 34 years and have tried to pass it on to others. Ed Bastian Elmira, Ontario, Canada
The power of a name Justin Baumert, then 4, was staying with his grandparents in Scribner, Neb. He lives in Kearney, but his family had been without electricity due to an ice storm in western Nebraska that year. During the children’s sermon about names, the pas- tor told the kids there “is power in a name.” Justin piped up, “Not in Kearney there isn’t.” Cindy Stollberg Scribner, Neb.
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Crossword
By Richard Bansemer
St. Patrick Day (March 17)
ACROSS 1. Wound covering 5. Just a bit 8. Wealthy
12. Wild animal home 13. Lemon’s fate? 14. Favorite cookie 15. __ mater 16. Big __ (fast food) 17. Cat cry 18. St. Patrick title 20. Iran currency 22. St. Patrick title 26. A plant fiber used for making rope
29. Romanian money 30. Born of 31. Jessica __ 32. Not happy 33. Old Norse poems 34. Home sweet home to most of us (abbr.)
35. St. Patrick title (abbr.) 36. Brick layer 37. One referee’s job 40. Odds are 41. St. Patrick legend of chasing these into the sea
45. Sailboat (var.) 47. Potato state (abbr.) 49. Apple leftover 50. Little (Spanish) 51. A quantity of no importance 52. Make perfect 53. Capital of Azerbaijan 54. One swell person, pearl 55. Barely made it financially
“I had a near-death experience and I shudder to tell you, heaven is all computerized.”
March 2015 47
DOWN 1. Uncut bacon 2. Colombian town 3. Gets ready to fire 4. Humped cattle 5. Packs down 6. Dental group (abbr.) 7. Complained vociferously 8. Caesar, for one 9. Belonging to St. Patrick’s country
10. Head of the Co. 11. In what way? 19. Lube 21. An informal debt note 23. Young St. Patrick became this when captured by pirates
24. Try again 25. Give birth 26. Close 27. Romanian city 28. Used by St. Patrick to explain the Trinity
32. Looking for 33. Pain in a sensory organ 35. Record Keeping Sys. 36. Hands on deck 38. Vowels, out of order 39. One of 150 in the Old Testament
42. Too strange a person 43. Sea eagle 44. Sow 45. Parts per billion (abbr.) 46. Airline designation for Roanoke, Va.
48. Turn blue?
BOB VOJTKO
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