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Subject: "Sitting Still" - February16, 2006

"I Believe in You!"

A message of Hope, stories from the road.

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Hello, my friend!

I wish you well and pray that... if you are upset, you find peace.

If you are happy, you find someone to make happy, too.

If you are alone, you find someone alone and create "together."

If you are wanting, you find someone who is giving.

If you are with, you find someone without.

If you are searching you find what you are looking for and more.

If you are beginning, you see it through.

If you are leaving, you come back again soon.

If you are tired, you find rest.

If you are fearful, you find peace.

If you are lost, you find your way.

If you are questioning, you find answers.

If you are not a believer...you begin to believe.

For God is ready...if you are.

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Perks Pearl of Wisdom

"This day...this very day is yours. Yours and mine. Theirs, too. A gift to you. A gift to us all.

I suggest that since so many have the right to claim it, that we all find a way of sharing it.

We can't occupy the exact same space, but we can acknowledge the right to exist in it.

In doing so we acknowledge the gift, the recipient and the Giver.

Once we agree on that, peace can't be far away." Bob Perks

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Today's Message:

"Sitting still"
By Bob Perks

I didn't think I could do it. I am always on the move. When my body is
not, my brain runs away some where and I need to go find it.

I was like a caged animal tonight. My day was turned around and mixed
up with an early rise and mid day nap. I hustled off for a doctor's
appointment and then ate lunch at 3:00 p.m.

So by the time we finished food shopping I wanted to do something, keep
going, or simply just walk some place.

But we returned home and I paced inside and out. There was a fresh
scent of rain mixed with cool breezes bathing my body and soul. I
walked in one door and out the other, pausing long enough inside to know
it wasn't where I belonged.

My sneakers soaked up the wet grass and I desperately wanted to go bare
foot. Thoughts of sitting in the rain, permitting myself to be soaked
straight to the bone danced through my mind. Faintly in the distance I
could hear my Mother yelling, "Bobby, get out of the rain! You'll
catch a cold." But being the boy I was and remain still today, I kept

on splashing, spinning, dancing like a fool, knowing fully that I would
get in trouble. But I had been there before. I knew trouble well.
This moment was much more important.

But today the rain had stopped and only memories of it remained.

So I grabbed a chair and sat on the front porch. I challenged myself to
sit still.

I rocked and wiggled at first, nervously changing my position to find a
comfortable spot. Then suddenly it happened. It wasn't the first time
and I pray it won't be the last.

I felt a part of everything around me. I immediately connected with
the world. I felt at peace, rested and a part of something bigger. I
tuned into the sounds of the birds sharing their early evening chatter.
I watched each car pass and seeing the driver, wondered who they were
and how their life was going. Was that red car a reflection of their
personality? Did that expensive convertible shout "look at me, I have
money?" Or was I reading into things that didn't necessarily mean a
thing?

I hardly moved at all. Yet, the world came to me. Except when I
lowered my head for a moment and rubbing my eyes, I happened to catch
the sight of a tiny red spider. Within the fifteen minutes or so that
I watched it, it never went anywhere. It moved constantly within about
a one square foot spot on my floor.

What was it looking for? Where did it want to go? Why didn't it walk
in a straight line to get there?

That's when it hit me.

There have been times in my life where I ran around in circles thinking
that activity meant progress. When in fact, I never got any where.

Then there were times when I felt like I was standing still, going no
where and yet I learned more about who I was.

You see, sitting still on the front porch proved to me that the world
will come to me when I need it to. Or at least I learn to appreciate
more the immediate world in which I live. Earlier that evening when I
was darting in and out of the house I was like the tiny spider, in
motion but getting nowhere.

The key, I learned a long time ago from Dr Wayne Dyer, is "nowhere."

Learning to sit still, converts no where into "now here." What you see
in this word....nowhere....is a reflection of how you perceive your
life.

Once I accept where I am and discover it totally by connecting to every
rock, tree, insect, sound and human, I grow into the world and it
accepts me. Now traveling any where I can learn to be a part of it just
by sitting still long enough to welcome it into my life and it in turn
accepts me as a part of the whole.

No longer can I say I am getting nowhere, simply because it doesn't
exist. How can no where be a place?

Believe me, if it weren't for night fall, I'd be
"sitting...still."

Try it!

"I believe in You!"

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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."