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From the Pulpit...
Owner/Publisher: Rob Wood
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His Grace Magazine!
ow many times have you wished you could just fix something? Or wish you could just make it better? And yet when we try to fix it or make it better, I find in my case, I just make it worse than it was before. I remember when we lived on a farm. We had 25 acres and quite a few animals such as horses, chickens, cows, dogs and cats; it was a fun time growing up on a farm. In the fall, we would get the fields all ready for winter, fertilizing and preparing it for the winter to come so that in the summer and fall it would be ready to harvest. There was a lot of work to get the land ready...from plowing, cultivating and finally
planting the seeds for the crops. We live in our own homes and take care of the land that we own, whether it is a farm or a lot in a town or city, by fertilizing the grounds. If we don't, then the land will suffer and crops and grass will not grow properly. There was another time when the world had to do a lot of healing; that was after World War II. When the second world war ended, as many as 60 million people had died, cities had been leveled to the ground, families had been ripped apart. When World War I ended, people and soldiers thought of going back to their lives, business as usual, and for the most part they could do that. Some towns in Europe were devastated and destroyed, but not to the extent it was in 1945. The destruction was more intense than before, as pretty much all of Europe and Asia was affected and destroyed. Of the 60 million that had died
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Our Repentence! as a result of the war, 25 million of them were from the Soviet Union and another 6 million were a result of genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis. When the war was raging, millions of people had to leave their homes or they would be put into camps and forced to work in Germany or Japan. The allies did all that they could to help and feed the refugees and to help reunite families that had been separated from one another during war time, and that task to find them all was overwhelming. Many of the ports had been damaged or destroyed in Europe and Asia, bridges and locomotives had been bombed and destroyed. Big cities had been bombed and reduced to rubble and burning ash piles or heavily damaged, such as Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kiev and London. Factories, businesses and many workshops were destroyed or
had heavy damage. Alot of forests and vineyards in Europe were destroyed from artillery shells and tanks. There were many people in Europe who were hungry. Some were eating Tulip Bulbs in the Netherlands. Canada and the United States, other than Pearl Harbour, were pretty much spared destruction from war. Great Britain didn't have much to spare, as Great Britain was bankrupt at that time from fighting the war. It was a difficult time. Many people were traumatized from war; many soldiers were trying to get back to a somewhat normal life, but they suffered so much. Where do you start the healing process? There was so much pain, hatred and destruction in the five years that World War II raged. In 1948, the Marshall Plan was an American Initiative plan package passed to help Europe rebuild. It was 15 billion
