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"I Believe in you!"
A message of Hope...stories from the
road.
By Bob Perks
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Hello, my Friend!
Zowie! What a glorious day! But I am throwing out
the
anchor on board this ride through summer. It is
going too fast!
Make it a great week!
Bob and Marianne
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Perks Pearl of Wisdom
"Searching for gold? It is there inside you. Not
buried, but waiting
for you to acknowledge your worth." Bob
Perks
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Appreciate what I do?
Here's how you can help me:
This link will take you to my web page for more
information,
shopping, and ways you can help.
I humbly thank you in advance...
Love always and all ways,
Bob and Marianne
Perks ********************************************
All stories copyright 2007 Bob Perks
Today's message:
"What one thing did you learn
today?"
By Bob Perks
I had forgotten all about it. I know there are
valuable gems buried deep
inside my mind. Gems that every once in a while come
to the surface
and discovering them is like seeing them for the first
time all over again.
Right now I can't even remember what brought it to mind,
but I am grateful
for it.
For me, remembering is like going on a brief vacation, an
out of body
experience and an amusement ride all in one. The big
moments, are
often marked by "Oh, Wow!" and followed by shaking my head
in disbelief.
Not surprising to me, it is often times preceded by an
event that sets up the
moment for me.
Such was the case yesterday.
A few months ago I began clearly the brush from the back
part of our property.
It started with a little trim and continued until I
reached the property line. Each
day I began with a moan and ended with great pain.
But that didn't stop me
from beginning again and again over the course of about a
month. It finally
ended up with a pile of cuttings about six feet high, five
feet wide and twenty
feet long. Oh, yes and a bill for $250.00 to remove
it.
I must have written about this earlier. I am a man
so I cannot imagine me not only
telling the story because of the great, manly
accomplishment, but also because
in the process I hurt myself and had many boo boos.
I am a man therefore I need babying.
Anyway. Every so often I go back out there and weed
whack the growth to keep it
from returning. Every time I do that, I seem to
discover something new.
I have walked over every inch of that area several
times. I have raked, shoveled,
weeded and fenced in that piece of land until I can see it
clearly in my mind. Still,
every time I walk there I see something else.
No gold, diamonds, or buried treasure. A stone, a
bottle cap, a piece of a broken jar
and even two golf balls lie waiting there for me.
No, no one recently tossed them there
for they are muddied and caked with years of dirt and
pieces of yesterday.
None of that has value by today's standards. But
this does. I discovered life there. I suddenly
realized that life is the same way.
I have walked a million miles over and over. I have
passed by people, places, things and
most every time they were all a blur, a part of the
scenery. Then one day, one glorious day,
I discover something new in all the old I took for
granted. The man at the grocery store suddenly
appeared to me as a brilliant and wise vessel of
knowledge spewing all the things I needed to hear
at that very moment.
A patch of flowers I drove by daily suddenly bursts with
color nearly blinding me. I needed to see
the beauty of the day.
Do they just appear or have they always been there
unappreciated by me as I hurried toward another
appointment, a scheduled event or the need to get
somewhere more important?
They were always there.
It is said that "when the student is ready, the teacher
will appear."
I believe that to be true for I have read a book and years
later read it again with such amazement of the
relevance to my life at present buried deep inside each
and every chapter.
But, they were there all along.
I'll add something here that personalizes this experience
for me. I know the real source of this
unexplained phenomenon.
My mother.
That's right. This "Oh, Wow!" moment was preceded by
the memory of words she said to me. The same
words I used with my own children. Everyday when I
came home from school, she would ask me, "What
one thing did you learn
today?"
At first I dreaded the question. When I was that
young I'd walked out that school door and I forgot everything.
I just wanted to play. Her question would make me
relive the agony of learning. As time went on I actually
enjoyed the moment. I even thought about it on the
way home each day and found myself struggling to find
only one thing to tell her. There were so many to
choose from.
All of these years, in the hidden recesses of my mind, I
have asked that question of myself. It is why I write.
It is the reason I have trained myself to see the details
of life. It is why every time I walk back up to that
section of my yard, I discover some old thing, new
again. It is why each sunrise thrills my
soul. It is why
the simple song of a common bird sounds like a symphony to
me.
It is also why I believe in you!
"What one thing did you learn today?"
Thanks, mom! "I believe in you!"
Bob
I encourage you to share my stories but I do ask
that you keep my name and
contact information with my work.
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Comments:
Have a comment about today's story?
please write to "2 believe @ comcast .net"
(spaces were placed between words in email
address for security)
"I Wish You enough!"
© 2001 Bob Perks 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." |
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