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Most of us have made journeys that have been memorable. Some have brought gladness, others sadness. Very few people we meet have never been on a journey—though I did know one of them, many years ago.
I was a minister on a very small, remote Scottish island. One afternoon I visited an elderly lady and as we talked she asked me what another place on the island was like–it was at the south end of the island, only five miles away from where she lived. She had never been there. “Let’s get into my car and I’ll take you,” I said.
“No,” she said, “I don’t want to go; I’d just like to know what it’s like.”
Neighbors told me that if a ball of string had been tied to her ankle the day she was born, with enough string to stretch for a mile, it would never have been fully unwound. The place she wanted to see
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