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Subject: "Do you have a second?" - June25, 2006

"I Believe in You!"

A message of Hope, stories from the road.

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Hello, my friend!

Here's a late one for Friday or and early one for Monday. All I know whenever

you get to read it, that's when you were meant to read it.

Yes, it's one of those stories that I hope makes a BIG difference in you day...

maybe even your life.

We walked another Relay for Life today for a friend who lost her sister to cancer.

Marianne walked as a "Survivor."

Oh, God...the chills that just ran over me.

Love always and all ways,

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Perks Pearl of Wisdom

"It is a simple thing that holds great value. It takes a second

to say but sometimes stays a lifetime in one's heart...

"Thank you!" Bob Perks

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Today's Message:

"Do you have a second?"

by Bob Perks

"You are worth more than all the money in the world!"

"I wouldn't trade you for nothing!"

"You're more valuable than gold!"

"Indispensable!"

Gee, it must be somebody important. Bill Gates? President Bush?

No, it's usually the person who you least pay attention to everyday. It's the person

in your life whom you take for granted. It's the one who is just always there as part

of the background in your hurried little life.

It's your best friend. It's your neighbor. It's most likely someone even closer

than that. Mom. Dad. Husband. Wife. Brother. Sister. Child.

"Oh, they know I love them. They know how important they are to me. God,

what would I do without them?"

I don't know. But pray that you never find out.

You see just this week I received wonderful heartfelt messages from people

who have had their lives turned upside down because that person I described

in the beginning of this message is gone.

Dead. Divorced. Run away. In a coma.

Left behind are people saying wonderful things about them and they aren't

there to hear it. Remaining here are people wondering what hit them

because now they feel so empty and lost because of that void left by there absence.

With it all, the most tragic part of it all, the heaviest burden of it all...regret!

"I know I should have told them more often."

"If only I knew this was going to happen I would have been more attentive."

"You know one day we were planning to..."

Petty, stupid reasons about being too busy, not aware, miles separated us,

they never told me, I always thought they knew, he was so healthy, I didn't

know she was depressed, I just figured...

Regret

I thought you'd always be there

Just a touch away

I tried to say I love you

I meant to every day

But you know how the world is

With work and time and such

I always knew I needed you

I didn't know how much.

I shouldn't have to say another word to get my point across.

But here are the words of one Mother who wrote to me:

"He was born and gone in a span of 18 years. But it seems like a

second in time. I blinked and he was gone. They say a car suddenly

pulled in front of him. It took a second for my whole world to turn upside down.

I never realized how valuable time was. Because it would have taken me

just a second to say "I love you!" that day. I didn't. I didn't take the time to tell him."

So, do you have second?

"I Believe in you!"

Bob Perks

"I believe in You!"

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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."