Transition

 "It gives one a sudden start in 

       going down a barren, stony street,

       to see upon a narrow strip of grass,

                           just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion,

                                 shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun."

                                                                ~Henry Ward Beecher~

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The grass withers

the flower fades

      but the word of our 

  God lives forever.

Isaiah 40:8