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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Black Box<\/strong><\/p>\n

The secret to life and success<\/p>\n

was hidden in the black box.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute, let me regress.<\/p>\n

The scroll was found under a rock.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It all started when I was young.<\/p>\n

We were kids, just fooling around.<\/p>\n

We were looking for some fun.<\/p>\n

In the old ruins outside of town.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s when we found the scroll.<\/p>\n

We knew it was really old.<\/p>\n

We made it our number 1 goal.<\/p>\n

To try and break the code.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The scroll was written in code.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t make any since to us.<\/p>\n

We need a key, we were told.<\/p>\n

Something to help was a must.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Something like a book or letter.<\/p>\n

We had no idea what to use.<\/p>\n

Then, years later, it got better.<\/p>\n

I thought of The Bible to use.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Matching the numbers \u00a0to<\/p>\n

chapter & verse worked.<\/p>\n

This broke the code, cool.<\/p>\n

We could understand this quirk.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The secret to life & success.<\/p>\n

Was hidden in a black box.<\/p>\n

Not far from where you possessed<\/p>\n

the scroll you found under the rock.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There were a few clues.<\/p>\n

We looked for them in the old ruins.<\/p>\n

We could no longer find the clues.<\/p>\n

For years we searched those old ruins.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

One day we found one of the clues.<\/p>\n

We worked like mad digging for others.<\/p>\n

Finally, almost too exhausted to move.<\/p>\n

We found the final clue that covered.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Move one more thing and<\/p>\n

the box should be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere it is.,\u201d lying in the sand.<\/p>\n

It looked like it was all there.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We picked it up with trembling hands.<\/p>\n

Blew off the dust and opened it up.<\/p>\n

There, before our eyes, lying in sand.<\/p>\n

The Holy Bible, with a note sticking up.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It said here is the secret to life & success.<\/p>\n

Read this book from cover to cover.<\/p>\n

God will do all the rest.<\/p>\n

We just stood looking at one another.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know who set all of this up.<\/p>\n

It was done long ago is all we know.<\/p>\n

We like to think it was an angel\u2019s cup<\/p>\n

overflowing with love for our souls.———-R. W. Johnson—–(2014)<\/p>\n

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