Tag: Modern Parable
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A Periwinkle Parable
Our home has a hill out that slopes downward from the front yard into the drainage ditch. Water flows off of everyone’s yards into these ditches and flows under each driveway through corrugated metal pipe. It’s a good system, I suppose, except for the mowing hazard it presents. Using a push mower on this hill…
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The Parable of the Purple Flowers
One day, when it was finally cooler outside, a homeowner went out to mow. With the upbeat pop-rock of U2 to accompany her, she had mowed the front yard, battled the fairly steep “hill of death,” took a brief but tremendously tedious interlude to pull invasive English Ivy, and was nearly finished mowing the backyard…
Journeying Together 