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Daddy didn__ say anything for a minute or so, and then he reached up and caught a firefly as it glowed beside him. __ee this light?_ he asked me when the firefly lit up his hand.__es__.___hat light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That__ what God expects us to do. We__e to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.___ime meandered on without Gemma__ momma and daddy, and it meandered on without Cy fuller and Walt Blevins. . . but those of us left behind viewed life more dearly, felt it more keenly. I__ learned a bit more about God and I__ seen His powerful hands at work. As I was growing, my heart was changing. And the way I figured it, there were lessons learned in those dark days that would help me for years to come.___s I sat on the porch on that December day . . . I leaned my head against the rail and sighed deeply. The way I figured it just then, my summer may have been full of bad luck, but my life wasn__. I figured as far as family went, I was one of the luckiest girls alive.
Jennifer Erin Valent Fireflies in December
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Daddy didn__ say anything for a minute or so, and then he reached up and caught a firefly as it glowed beside him. __ee this light?_ he asked me when the firefly lit up his hand.__es__.___hat light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That__ what God expects us to do. We__e to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.___ime meandered on without Gemma__ momma and daddy, and it meandered on without Cy fuller and Walt Blevins. . . but those of us left behind viewed life more dearly, felt it more keenly. I__ learned a bit more about God and I__ seen His powerful hands at work. As I was growing, my heart was changing. And the way I figured it, there were lessons learned in those dark days that would help me for years to come.___s I sat on the porch on that December day . . . I leaned my head against the rail and sighed deeply. The way I figured it just then, my summer may have been full of bad luck, but my life wasn__. I figured as far as family went, I was one of the luckiest girls alive.
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