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Sunday Morning

  Sunday Morning When Marc Brod was ten years old, he was given an assignment by his Reading teacher to read an interesting and unusual story.  It was about a Greek god named Sisyphus, who was given a most burdensome task.  That task was to push a massive boulder up to the top of a very high mountain, and if he could get it to the top, push it over the other side. Then and only then, could he forever be released from his burden.  But as it turned out, he was only able to make it up halfway before the boulder became just too heavy, and he started rolling backwards with it; about 100 yards or so.  He would push it back up 50 more yards, and then roll back down with it another 100.  50 more up, 100 more down.  On and on it went for all of eternity.  Steadily he declined into a deep dark abyss. “This,” Marc’s teacher exclaimed to the class, “is the way life can feel sometimes.  But take heart!  There is a Sunday morning coming…” “There i...