"While riding my dirt bike in 8th grade, I slid out in the mud. I was only three when it happened." - Kate G. "I was at the first fireworks that I remember, and a falling firework ash fell into my Wellington boot and burned me. ![]() Now I have a nice big scar in the middle of my shin" - Katie O. Her mom only had one rule for this birthday weekend: no flip flops. "For Dana’s birthday every year we went to walk the rock coast in Rockport MA. (Yes, I do have a huge scar from that lovely day.) Your elbow was bleeding the whole day." - Alexandra N. "I don't have too many of my own, but Dana I sure as hell remember watching you somersault down the cement bowl of the skate park when I was trying to teach you how to roller blade. I had a bald spot for five years." - Molly K. "So I'm four years old and laying on the ground in my brother’s room while he is vacuuming. shark attack, stabbed, car accident), because I get a kick out of it, and who cares anyway?" - Ashley J. So sometimes when people ask me what happened I like to make up stories (i.e. It's still pretty big, but I used to be very self-conscious about it. A few years later, I watched them cut out the entire scar to fix the damage, which left me with a new one. The scar didn't heal right, so it was much bigger than they expected. A surgery intern was the one who closed the incision, and they didn't do a very good job. "I had a calcium buildup on my arm, and decided to have removal surgery to get rid of the pain, knowing there would be a huge scar after. So now I have a nice scar in the middle of my chest." - Brittany M. So I had to get open heart surgery to fix the hole or else I would have died before 18 years old- my doctor said my heart and hole was the largest he'd ever seen. Come to find out I had a hole in my heart where 90 percent of the wall between my upper chambers were gone mixing the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood causing my heart to work harder and enlarge ten times its normal size. For this we can always count on the Cornerstone."When I was a freshman in high school I was at soccer practice and passed out mid warm up run. It’s true that the highest motivation for anything is love but sometimes we might just need a tough warning first. You may have noticed that it’s pretty hard to read through an entire Gospel (I recommend Mark) without feeling an urgent need to change. ![]() Indeed, the Gospels are full of grim warnings and serious demands made by Jesus. But he does not “edit” or “cut” these somewhat harsh words. Luke is known for highlighting the compassion of Christ. We know that whatever Jesus says to those who opposed him most, we must hear for ourselves. And yes, he was speaking directly to the scribes, chief priests, and elders – but this does not soften the blow either. 8:14-15), but that doesn’t soften the blow. Here Jesus is likely referring to another Old Testament passage (Isa. We are familiar with Jesus quoting Psalm 118:22 in reference to himself: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” But what is obscure, or lesser known, is the commentary he adds in both Matthew and Luke: “Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” ![]() I felt that way when I came across this passage. There are not many “obscure Scriptures” in the Gospels, so it can really take you aback when you read something there that you feel you’ve never read or noticed before. But he looked at them and said, “What then does this text mean: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces and it will crush anyone on whom it falls” (Lk.
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