Closer To Heaven
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Photo: Studiomill There is a Bartlett pear tree in our yard that was planted before we bought our property twenty-five years ago. When we began looking over our three acres of land, which we were thrilled about after living in town, we spied that tree and were so excited! A mature fruit tree already in operation. What a blessing! In spring, the tree was so covered with blossoms that it looked like a giant white powder puff.
Photo: Studiomill The apple is probably one of the favorite foods of all time, despite it’s bad rap as the food that tempted Eve (probably a fallacy, since no one really knows what kind of fruit she ate. However, an apple was the poisoned fruit that Snow White ate, in the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs—and has long scared children from eating apples.
Depths of Humiliation Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
