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Grandmother shoots buck from the kitchen window: The courage to respond biblically to “the worst event this country will face”

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Christianity, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 7, 2020

A grandmother made headlines when she shot a buck through her kitchen window. Today's podcast tells her story, then we focus on the need for courage in facing threats from Iran and China and compassion in responding to "the worst event this country will face."

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This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

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0:14.7

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.6

My kitchen is my dear stand.

0:22.4

We take the screen off one of the windows every fall.

0:25.8

I can see a pretty good ways from there.

0:28.3

So says Virginia Luce, an 80-year-old grandmother in East Texas, who recently shot an 11-point

0:34.7

buck from her kitchen window.

0:36.8

The four-time cancer survivor retired just two

0:39.6

months ago from a 25-year career as a registered nurse. She was making lunch around noon on

0:46.1

November 8th when she spotted a buck 175 yards away. After confirming its identity with her

0:52.6

binoculars, she shot and killed him with her rifle.

0:56.0

Her 83-year-old husband then drove the tractor out and brought it back to the house.

1:00.9

When I saw all those horns, I thought I was seeing things, Virginia said.

1:05.3

I got so excited about that deer that I can't even remember what I was fixing for lunch.

1:11.6

The world could use more people like Virginia Luce these days.

1:16.6

The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khomeini,

1:22.6

may have transferred power to his son, Moshthaba Hosseini Khomeini, age 51, amid concerns over his declining health.

1:31.2

Another candidate would be the head of Iran's judiciary, Ibrahim Raiisi. Both are viewed as

1:37.2

hardliners with regard to the West. If either succeeded Khomeini, the Post warns that

1:43.5

there would be major implications for the U.S. and Israel.

1:47.7

In other geopolitical news, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated in the Wall Street Journal,

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