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Can
You Solve
This
Puzzle?
This puzzle was written by a lady in California
in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone
$1,000.00 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to
do so and paid the $1,000.00. The answer is one word, and appears
only four times in the Bible. Can you solve it?
Adam, God made out of dust
But though it best to make me first.
So I was made before man
To answer God's most Holy plan.
A living thing I became
And Adam gave to me my name.
I from his presence then withdrew
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my Maker's law obey
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear
But seldom on earth appear.
Fro purpose wise which God did see,
He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me God did claim
And took from me the soul again.
So when from me the should should had fled
I was the same as when first made.
And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel from pole to pole.
I labor hard by day by night
To fallen man to give great light.
Thousands of people, young and old
Will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive
The scriptures I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found
They are to me an empty sound.
No fear of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness I'll never see.
To heaven I shall never go
Or to hell below.
Now when these lines you slowly read
Go search your Bible with all speed.
Fro that my name is written there
I do honestly to you declare.
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Have
You Tried These?
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A little more patience-to overlook and bear up with the
things others do and say that irritate me?
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A little more firmness-to continue to work which duty
demands and which is often repellent to me?
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A little more humility-to remain at the post at which I
find myself and which does not fit in at all with my dreams and plans?
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Above all, a little more prayer to draw God to my heart?
Thank You, Lord
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Just this once, Lord, I want to come to
you with no problems, but simply to say, Thank you:
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For your forgiveness when I fail
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For the sheer joy of sleep when I'm
terribly tired
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For the silent strength of humility when
pride overtakes me
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For the justice of your laws when men are
cruel
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For the remedies for sickness when I am
ill
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For the simplicity of orderliness when I
face confusion
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For the assurance that you have made a
place especially for me when I feel inadequate among my peers
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For the joy of helping others when I see
people in need
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For the reality of your world, when I
stray too far into fantasy
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For the rightness of reasonableness when
I panic too quickly
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For the fun that refreshes when
everything gets too serious
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Thank you, Lord for all these
things. But most of all, thank you for your abiding presence that
makes every day I live a day of thanks.
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