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Right inside the kitchen door on the left there is a phone jack. My desk phone and computer are plugged into that outlet. As far as I can remember there has always been a phone there. When I was young there was a box there with a phone in it. On the phone there was a crank handle, which made the phone ring. It also made all the other phones on the line ring, plus the operator heard it ring. The phone was like a musical instrument and some people were very good at making phone music. My granny could get on the phone and ring anybody on the line with ease and beauty to her ring. I remember the old phone number here, 8F02. The 02 stood for two short rings, which was how granny and papa knew the phone call was for them. The closest neighbor, the Fredhomes, had a long ring and a short ring. I think? Everybody on the line knew everyone else's ring and when someone else got a phone call. I think most people at times had listened in on other conservations out of curiosity. I remember being told that one long extended ring, meant that someone was in trouble and all should pick up the phone in order to be of assistance some how. Today it's different, a lot of people screen their calls by an answering machine or caller ID. I know, I just this minute let the answering machine take a call because I didn't want to be interrupted. I need to think about the long continuous ring, maybe somebody needs help. Maybe I need help for not answering! Of all the tools I use in my recovery from my addictions, the telephone has been one of the most important. I went six years without a phone because I liked the privacy, and could not stay sober. The phone has kept me in touch with God, because God always has, and always will, use people to accomplish His will. I am grateful, today God is doing for me what I could not do for myself........................JRE

God's phone number Jeremiah 33:3

"Call to me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."
Jermiah 33:3 NKJV