@megievalist "My Papa's Waltz" and "Richard Cory" are on my short list. I've never been in a classroom where the latter didn't pull even the most reluctant learners in.
@MichaelDell Thank you @MichaelDell and @SusanDell and @DellFdn from Wyoming! We have four children and your contribution was the very first contribution to their accounts!
God bless!
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@KSPrior These are thoughtful, but I think it's a perspective problem. Seeing the forest is one thing-which we do with our imagination or when we read a book or recognize through the telescoping lens of objective humility.
But it's another thing entirely to stand in the dark timber.
@Fake_CowboyJoe@NotWyoAthletics@CSG_WYO@Stephhewitt1 Inertia is the correct answer. Great games and good memories (eg texas tech '23) have a shelf life. When those students graduate, and new students come, (hopefully good) new memories are made.
@JoelMCurzon 3) 40 years is not all that long (like asking if someone went to a Queen concert.) Our oldest documents are Paul anyways--his earliest letters are within 15ish years. He easily may have encountered disciples of Jesus--which he claims to have done.
Either way, stay the course!
@JoelMCurzon 2) there are YET curious features worth explaining for a skeptic (eg the negative portrayal of key characters in Mark, elevation of female testimony in the gospel accounts, the "we" passages in Luke/Acts, etc.) that at least warrant some historical head scratching,