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Subject: "What a gift..." - December08, 2006

"I Believe in You!"

A message of Hope, stories from the road.

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Hello, my friend!

First of all...to all my friends in the Philippines...I pray that

you are safe. Please write to tell me so. "I'll see you in my prayers!"

Gifts. We give and humbly receive them. But

you are a gift in someone's life.

When one of my "friends I've never met" decides

to either buy one of my products or donate, I often times

read a note that says, "This isn't much..."

I always shake my head and wonder..."Do they know that

the true value of the gift is not measured in currency. It is

the act of having given anything at all that holds the most

And so today I write about the most valuable gift to give and

acknowledge in someone else.

Love always and all ways...

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Perks Pearl of Wisdom

"It is a small gift that gives the most." Bob Perks

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Today's Message:

"What a gift..."

It is that time of year when giving is on our minds. Giving

a present to someone you love. A well thought out attempt

to show how very much you care.

We give our time to those who need us there. Time, is the valuable

thing, and yet, you cannot measure it in dollars and cents.

We give money to those who do the work of God's care takers of the

needy in the world. We help them to do what they do best.

I believe that I get many gifts each day and always at least one

person whom God has sent to touch my life. It reminds me in a

special way that we are all connected, we worldly travelers, making

our way through life.

Yesterday I received one of those "gifts." An email arrived to tell

me that someone commented on the KSolo website about a song I

Although I have not been singing as much lately, I thought I'd check it

A visitor wrote this simple line commenting on one of my songs:

"I just heard you sing "singin' in the rain" and you even had my

kids up and dancing, what a great song."

I smiled when I read it. I thought about all the things I try to do

to "touch the world one person at a time." But this was special.

I made her kids get up and dance. Kids dancing! In a rare and

beautiful moment I touch the future. My attempt at singing a song

that gives me "happy feet" actually made the children dance.

I had to tell this person what they had done for me that day.

"What a gift you have given me today! To think that I had your

children dancing makes me very happy. I, my wife and one of my

children were in Universal Studios park in Florida when it

started to rain. Immediately they began playing that song.

Right in the open, in front of all the visitors, I started dancing.

I don't dance well, but that song makes my heart dance.

Of course my son was embarrassed. Not the first time. So,

knowing I made your children dance...What a gift you

have given me today."

It got me thinking. Every person who comes into my life gives

me a gift. It is not this one time of the year that I get such

special gifts. They need not be a word of praise or the

sharing of great wisdom.

The gift I get I must choose to see. I wonder then, how many gifts

I have let pass me by without acknowledging?

Imagine then, hearing someone say..."You are my gift for today."

You, all wrapped up in God's love and created to be a gift to many.

You, touching one's life, just by being yourself.

I would guess then, if we could try to see the value in another person,

we would begin to see the value in ourselves.

Be the gift you want to receive.

Tell someone, "What a gift you have given me today!"

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about today's message, please write to Bob@BobPerks.com

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RE: "To see the light"

Hi Bob,

Just to say I enjoyed your piece.

regards,
Solomon.

Dear Bob~

My friends and family always remark how I am always seeking/looking

for more light. Even before my vision challenges, I always wanted more light.

When I find myself sensing fear, I constantly call out to my angels.

I know they are there, full of light. Some days, they get called on a lot!! :)

Thank you, again, dear friend for a heart-touching story~

Lots of love, LIGHT, and blessings~Mama T

Bob,

That's precisely where I am right now Bob, the end of my

rope as I face possible eviction in 10 days because I have

been unemployed for almost three years and am unable to

pay this month's rent. I recently began several home-based

businesses but so far they have not produced positive cash flow.

Gayl

Good Morning Bob Perks,

I happened to notice the column 'To See The Light' is repeated

today, from yesterday. I thought about the reference to light and

reminded myself of the 'light of the mystics' Ernest Holmes

(founder of Science of Mind) referred to in his writings.

On page 212, chapter 11, of The Essential Ernest Holmes,

Holmes says in this chapter, 'Untapped Powers in the Self':

... The only light there is the Light Eternal.

Very frequently I sit down all alone for two hours and listen

to the silence and it speaks, and look into the darkness and it

turns light--it is there and there is no question about it. God is

warmth, Spirit is colorful, the Universe is filled with light. A voice

speaks from everything--running brooks, stones and trees,

animals and moon and stars, deserts and stillness. And you

can listen to the stillness until it speaks to you.

Back of us the Infinite searches, finding manifestation through us,

as us, and all that we are. It is what we are and we should never

deny it. When we surrender to It we are not surrendering to a

foreign agent, but we acquiescing consciously to a Divine host,

a celestial visitor, a universal individualization.

And so it goes that after re-reading this, along with the synchronicity

your column provides me, I surrender but find myself still adrift

with no lighted path that I am to walk; nor a still small voice that

speaks to my ears or my heart. Interviews come and go as

I search for my niche; a place where I might participate in the

work there, a place whereby I might contribute--but it is a

deadly quiet I encounter hours, then days after the interview,

that allows no phone to ring to tell me 'I have the job'.

I invite the light in and yet it does not appear to align with me.

Our memories fade from present tense

To nestle in a past where light has dimmed

On water�s floor the murkiness

Obscures the taper, snuffs the flame

The love we hold dearly unto our breast

Warms the heart encased in flesh

Reveals the closeness as real as day

Remote is the night but a heartbeat away

Deep in our minds remain events

Priceless treasures crystallize into excellence

Concealed below in waters well stored

Truth and clarity await judgment�s accord

With unfair swiftness the bleakness descends

Upon the crown and brow and gut

Unable to bargain or make amends

Transfixed upon the spot the dark night comes

Compelled as we are to accept condemnation

From judges and those deigned our peers

We rise beyond the world�s gross neglect

And inherit the realm�s renown sincere

Delve deep and declare these belongings of soul

Imagined with sight now true

To meet the light within the night

Is to see the light anew

�Ivan L Hughes January 28, 2004

Sincerely yours,

Ivan Hughes//

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"I wish you enough!"
Bob

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"I wish you enough!"
written by Bob Perks (c) 2001

"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."