"I Believe in You!"

A message of hope, stories from the road

By Bob Perks

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Hello, my friend!

I do hope you are well.

I have written about my life in many ways.?  From early on I decided that the best way I can serve is to use myself as an example.?  In times that I struggled with my own life, I never found value in writers and speakers who had it all, knew it all, and said they could help you get it all for four easy payments of??¦

So I have always been honest with my readers, my audience.

Today is no exception.

My story today will reveal something to you about me that may surprise, even shock some of you.? 

I am human.? 

I am a child of God and only need answer to Him.? 

While in search of answers to my recent questions I discovered one very significant one.? 

God isn??™t finished with me yet.? 

???I??™m still being purged!???

Love always and all ways,

Bob and Marianne

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???The most important answers in life often take a lifetime to discover.????  Bob Perks

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Today's Message:

???I??™m still being purged!???

By Bob Perks? 

There is much to be done with me.?  I am still under construction.? 

I am acting on those words, those urges that come from within.?  No thundering voices, burning bushes, or messages written in the sky.

This calling was a little tougher than the other recent things I??™ve shared with you.?  They all began with getting new carpeting and making new decisions on what to do with old things.?  Kind of cleaning house and washing my soul at the same time.

Hanging on the wall just inside my office was a baseball bat, glove and a baseball nicely hung on a handmade wooden bracket created to display such treasures.? 

I am not a fan of baseball, but they hung there because they are one of the tools of fatherhood when raising two boys.

I often played catch with them, pitched a few to them in the backyard of my home and caught a few pitches when my son, Keith had visions of playing in the big leagues.

They??™ve hung there on that wall for many years since those days.?  I never had the need for them again but had all too many memories to take them down.

It was the house cleaning and painting that forced that issue recently.?  It was then God revealed my next project of faith.

While sitting here in this chair it all came back to me.

It was a beautiful spring day.?  Perfect for many things, but just the right setting for a Little League baseball game. ? ? My son Keith was playing and I saw a ball fly out of the park near where I was standing.?  I walked over, picked it up and continued watching the game.?  At the end Keith came running up to me excited about the win.?  As I was speaking with him, one of the coaches walked up and said, ???Did you get the ball????? 

I hesitated for a moment and replied, ???No, I couldn??™t find it.????  I was lying.?  I remember he glanced down and could clearly see the ball bulging in my pocket.?  Then, looking up at me, he said.?  ???Okay.??? And walked away.

In that one stupid unexplainable moment, I broke every rule.?  I lied.?  I stood there in front of my son and lied.?  I took something that wasn??™t mine and I tried to justify it by saying, ???They don??™t need it, Keith.???

It was done.?  He never said a word to me about it.?  Through all of these years Keith has never mentioned what happened that day.

There??™s no need for me to try to defend myself by sharing with you all the good things I have done that would somehow make that one single event okay.?  It isn??™t and now I need to make amends for it.

You see, that ball that I stole is the exact same ball that has hung on my wall all these years. ? I had forgotten about it until I held it in my hand a few weeks ago.

I am being purged.

Since then I have made phone calls, visited the same baseball field and spoken to people trying to find someone to give that ball to.

I finally found a way.

I located an address for the sports group that sponsored the league.?  Because it is past season, no one answers the phone and no one is at the site.?  So I mailed the old ball and a new one to the only address I could find in hopes that this will somehow make it right.? 

The old ball represents the old me.?  The new ball represents the new, still under construction, in the process of being ???purged??? me.

My friend Nathaniel Bronner, recently revealed to me in one of his MountainWings messages that God spoke to him about a friend he was praying for.?  God said??¦??? ???the purging is not complete.???

? That also spoke to me.?  It was the answer I had been searching for.?  The explanation I needed, too.

I am listening more intently now to that inner voice that has guided me all these recent years.? 

The Voice that confirmed ???I??™m still being purged!???

"I believe in you!"

Bob Perks

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RE:?  ???Words Lost???

Thanks Bob!
I was just considering this subject today - I wrote an uncle that I haven't
spoken to in a couple of years.?  How important those simple words can be to
someone...I know how much they can mean to me on a spiritually trying day.

Thank you, for always sharing such spiritually uplifting stories.

Breanne

Hello Bob

It is really great getting your messages again.?  I missed them when I "lost" them.?  About "words lost," you sound like my husband.?  He is forever getting a document ready on WORD, and then something happens.?  It disappears.?  I say, "Did you save it?"?  His answer is standard, "No.?  I wasn't finished."?  My reply, "Save it after the first sentence and then keep on updating the saving." But he never does, so for him he has many "words lost."?  So I just wanted to tell you that you have company in "words lost."?  Anyway, I enjoyed your story, as I do all of your stories.?  God bless.?  ... And belated happy birthday.?  I didn't know about it.? Helen

Hello my friend:?  Are words ever really lost??  Ripples from a pebble dropped into a pond may seem to disappear--but just because we no longer see them--are they really gone??  I've been taught that thoughts--words unspoken--have power also.? ? I could therefore conclude that the words & rhyme are still producing the desired effect? in others just as they? have in you.

God's Love & Peace to you &? your "bride" --

From Harmans' Haven;? 

? Randall

Hi Bob,

I have had the same experience before.?  Words written but suddenly disappear.?  But in my case, now I? ? understand why.?  I think the words I wrote weren't meant to be sent. ? Because latter I was glad they didn't get sent because they were only meant for me.

Many times the words you write seem to be just for me at a time I needed them the most.?  I'm glad this message got through and didn't get lost this time.

We all believe in you,?  Helen O.

Dear Bob,

We understand that "lost feeling" after you have written your master piece and "bam" it's gone !! especially after all that work, poring your heart into it.

You feel so hurt and empty !

And HOW can you do that all over again,? ..........?  after emptying you heart into what was just lost !!

I think what is more important above all, is just what you said, You did not fall for that old devil's trick of getting angry and hateful, This shows proof of the good and gracious man you are !
To share that with us ....makes Jackie and I feel so very good about you !!

A Hard Working, Honest Man, it's good to know you,and wish I was there to shake your hand !!

We Love You
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Bob,

You may have ???lost??? the words, but you didn??™t loose the story!

The real story being that we have to find the positive in what we ???believe??? to be something negative!

???I do believe??? that this is a very important lesson for all of us!

Warmly!?  ElizaBeth

? Bob,

WOW, this is so awesome!!! How something that could have ruined his
entire day ended up being a blessing..

Minka

Dear Bob,

You lost a "first" story.? ? The? treasured gemstone can be found in the second generation of that message. ? The glow? of that rare diamond-message? is crystal clear,? multifaceted and cut to perfection.

The line "I lost words and found a better way to live" could also be read "I lost words, the angels gave me more, and lives were changed with the change.

We live in abundance.?  Nothing is ever lost, only transformed, reshaped to the perfection needed for that moment's ministry.

Thank you for moving with the Spirit.?  It flows to you and through you.

? Donna S.

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