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Subject: "Where I leave off..." - March17, 2006

"I Believe in You!"

A message of Hope, stories from the road.

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Hello, my friend!

I pray you are well!

It has been a very challenging week for me, so this is the

only story. But I will be back on track next week...promise.

I just realized that on May 1, 2006, I will have been writing

these stories for my "Friends I've never met" for eight years.

Eight years! About 1,000 stories...I must really love my friends!

God isn't through with me yet. But life has been challenging me.

Nothing serious. Just "life stuff." I've faced a lot of life stuff in my almost

Say a prayer for me. and "I'll see you in my prayers"

Love always and all ways...

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Dreaming takes a lot of work." Bob Perks

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Bob and Marianne

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Today's Message:

"Where I leave off and you begin"

By Bob Perks

Have you ever said, "Boy I'd like to be a fly on the wall and hear

that conversation!" Simply meaning that you'd like to be there and

over hear what was about to be said.

For some reason I find myself like a "fly on the wall" many times.

Am I eaves dropping, being nosey, or snooping? Or am I just more

aware of life around me?

I believe It's because I notice more things than the average person.

I enjoy being aware and I challenge you to do to the same. For our

lives are just a moment, a flash in eternity. Like standing in line for

hours to see a Disney attraction and before you know it, it's over.

What a gift it was for me to hear this conversation between a father

and son just a few days ago.

"Dad, what do they mean "Like father, like son?" asked the young man.

"Well, sometimes a parent and child are so much alike that it's obvious

to the people around them. When a father and son are close they share

the same interests, act and think basically the same way, " Dad replied.

"That's a good thing, right?" the boy asked.

"Well, in most cases it is. But if the father was a bad example and the

son models him, it's just a bad thing all around," Dad said with a smile.

"What about us? Are we the same?" the son asked.

"I do believe we are, son. That's a good thing. You know that I've tried to

be fair with people. I go to church and volunteer a lot. I help around the

house because Mom works, too. And I make sure that you and I spend

a lot of time together," Dad said proudly.

"So you think that I'm the same way?"

"Yes, I do. I'm proud to say that you are a great son. The whole family if proud of you."

"Like father, like son." I'm proud of you, too, Dad" the boy said with a big smile.

Then Dad shared a story.

"My Daddy was the same way. What I am, he was, too. So I've tried to

pass it along to you. The day my Daddy died he said to me that he tried

to raise me the way God would. If he did a good enough job, after he

died it would be hard to tell where he left off and I began," the father said

pausing for moment in reflection.

Then he continued, "He always thought that was the way God wanted it.

So that we would be good, do good and act according to His way. So

that it would be hard to see where He left off and I began."

Then the son stood up and walked over and faced his Father.

"Dad, I promise to always make you proud. But I don't ever want you to

"leave off." I don't think that I could begin again," he said, with his voice

cracking with emotion.

Dad reached out and hugged the boy and said, "Like father, like son.

I didn't want my Daddy to "leave off" either.

I thought about what I had observed here. How powerful the thought that

we should live our lives in such a way that it would be hard to see where

God leaves off and we begin.

"Like father, like son."

"I Believe in you!"

Bob Perks

"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."