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Snakes and Ladders by Petra Pierre - Robertson

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  Snakes and Ladders 97!   Just one more move IF I get a 3! Lord, give me a 3 a nd I'm done!    I will even take 2!   Just get me past that snake! Please do not give me 1!   Snakes Why was the snake positioned on the last leg of the journey, just before the finish line?   The journey had begun so nicely.   You were up the ladder from your first move!  Then, as soon as you started to make good progress,  the snakes just appear, all over the board, to mess things up. You had been through so much; you battled and survived; accomplished, despite the odds, in 2020.   Now, when home is just in sight, up looms a snake! Start with a ladder     End with  a snake Snakes symbolise enemies. It was a serpent (later called a snake) who beguiled Eve .   As a result of his fatal trickery, paradise was lost, toil, hardship and death stepped in and enmity was placed between humankind and snakes.     And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; H

Cut Nails, not Fingers! by Petra Pierre - Robertson

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This week's blog is based on my reflection on two pieces of writing that came at me yesterday and today: A Facebook memory and my morning devotional. Yesterday, (Dec 6, 2020), Facebook reminded me of a post I shared 5 years ago (2015) from Pinterest:   When nails grow long we cut nails, not fingers. Similarly, when misunderstandings grow up, cut your ego, not your relationship.   Ironically, my devotional reading this morning (December 7, 2020), entitled “Divisiveness” from ‘Covered with His Righteousness’ by L. Eloy Wade O. (p. 349 IAD 2010), built on that memory.   I confess, yes, I keep all my devotionals from yesteryears! According to Wade, evil spreads division and separation. Evil causes humans to separate themselves from God then from each other. This was witnessed after war when the following countries split into two: Vietnam, Africa, China, Germany, Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Korea.  He went on to shrewdly outline ongoing divisions in humanity between rich and poor, black