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the original 12-hour clock 1. Find a clock, preferably a large one, that you don't mind taking apart. 2. Disassemble the clock, removing its movement, face, and hands. 3. Decide whether you want your 24-hour clock to have midnight on the top or bottom. 4. Find a 24-hour clock face online that fits with this decision or design your own face. 5. Measure the size of the old clock face and adjust your new one to approximately the same dimensions. the 24-hour clock face 6. Print your 24-hour clock face. I printed mine out at Walmart as a 16"x20" photo. 7. Cut it to size, if necessary. 8. Find a 24-hour clock movement. I ordered mine from Klockit.com. 9. Find hour and minute hands (and a second hand, if you want), paying attention to how long the hands need to be to fit the face. I ordered mine online from the same website: Klockit.com. 10. Assemble your clock, using the new face, new movement, new hands, and old clock frame. If you ordered the movemen...

by Martha Snell Nicholson I trust Him for my daily bread The keeping of my precious dead, The wiping out of all my sin, My going out, my coming in. I trust Him for the grace to bear This pain and weariness and care, I trust Him with this laboring breath, And with my ancient fear of death. Within the anguish of my mind His purpose and His love I find, Nor will He fail to give me strength Which meets the need of each day's length. In the day and in the night, In the darkness and the light, I trust the guidance of His hand Through ways I cannot understand, Until at last, earth's shadows gone, I shall awake, some glorious dawn, And in the brightness of His face Begin to understand His grace! "The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped" Psalm 28:7 KJV

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us , and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds." (King James Version) "Sometimes we don't think taking our eyes off of Jesus can do us much harm. It does. . . . we wouldn't be so prone to sin if we consider what Christ endured" Joy Bickle

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow April 2009 When the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, 'T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs     The first flower of the plain.     I love the season well, When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell     The coming-on of storms. April 2012     From the earth's loosened mould The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives; Though stricken to the heart with winter's cold,     The drooping tree revives.     The softly-warbled song Comes from the pleasant woods, and colored wings Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along     The forest openings.     When the bright sunset fills April 2013 The silver woods with light, the green slope throws Its shadows in the hollows of the hills,     And wide the upland glows.     And when ...

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