Twice this summer I suffered the scourge of poison ivy Both times it happened I was working on clearing away unwanted plant growth from our yard And both times I saw the nasty three-leafed enemy lurking nearby I figured I could get close to it without it affecting me Soon enough I realized I rsquo d been wrong Instead of getting nearer to my little green nemesis I should have run the other way In the Old Testament story of Joseph we see modeled the principle of running from something worse than poison ivy sin When he was living in
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