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possible, "and you said a person should be able to like what they eat and eat what they like?"
• I sighed a deep sigh, smiling inside hoping she would not discover that inner glowing smile.
• She thought for a moment and then responded, "I seem to recall a conversation along that line but I do not recollect that we were talking about Apple Fritters. The words "Apple Fritters" never came up in the conversation as I remember it."
• My challenge was to reconstruct the memory of that discussion somehow to fit in the words "Apple Fritter" or at least the idea.
• "When I said that," she said looking at me straight in the eye, "I did not have Apple fritters on my mind. In fact, if the truth were known, I had broccoli on my mind at that moment."
• How did broccoli get into this conversation? Nowhere in the recesses of my mind did the word broccoli ever appear.
• I knew I was losing the battle at this point.
• It is one thing to say something but it is quite another thing to hear something. Many times what I hear is not really what is being said. At times what is being said is not exactly what I hear, especially if my wife is doing the speaking.
• Why is it people cannot say what they mean and mean what they say?
• Only God really says what He means and means what He says. I like the encouragement he gives to Joshua. "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee" (Joshua 1:5 KJV).
• Whatever God says He means and it never changes its meaning from one generation to the next. That is something I can really rely upon.
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