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Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, Anything I can do for You today, Lord?

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Morning
Wake
Waiting
Pray
Lord
God
Happens
Wait
Today
Praying
Anything
Trouble
Would
Happen
Dickens
Like
Wonder
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