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Red Skelton said those words,
remember him saying those words at the close? I
think he meant those words too. Seemed like he had
that little choked up voice at that stage. I think
there was a reason for that. Maybe he thought, this
may be the last time I get to wish you God's
Blessings.
God bless you all is my
prayer today. Nice words, these words have been
said countless times in some matter, or twist. Do
we ever take a hard look at the words
God, the maker of everything.
The one who can say. This is mine, I own it. Just
what do you yourself own? Really nothing, you get
to use it for a time. Read the Bible, remember a
fellow, name of Job?
Bless, That would be
something good come your way. I guess it also means
nothing bad happens to you. I have heard it said,
and I sometimes say it myself. "All my luck is
bad." Maybe luck could be lumped into blessings.
It could be my not having good luck is a blessing.
Remind me, we can come back to this if we have time
at the end.
We can skip the small words,
not that the small words are not important.
Prayer, that is my short
few words to God. I just said them as I am leaving
your company. We just met here on the corner, for a
minute. No one can stop me from saying a prayer, for
you. I asked God to bless you, remember. That is a
prayer. Pure and simple. I think God likes those
kind. He has the phone lines tied up with enough of
those long winded spell binding prayers. Some people
thinks God's house is Santa Claus headquarters. Some
people are worse then a 5 year old asking for two
truck loads of toys.
Today, that is this day you
are looking at. Not tomorrow. Remember you may have
today, not tomorrow. Yesterday is gone, and done with,
it is history. Yesterday was a learning day for
today. If you didn't learn from yesterday, today may
be a waste too. A very wise man told me something one
time. His name was Dr.McCall. He said he learns
something every day. He was a man of many letters.
Now remember we met on a
street corner, talked a couple minutes. I asked God
to bless you. You said a few words. It took a couple
minutes. We parted, you turned around the corner, and
walked along the sidewalk, against a tall building.
There lays a brick kind of all broken up. You see, if
you hadn't stopped to waste a couple minutes talking
to that worthless Bill, you would be laying there on
the sidewalk wearing a brick for the latest in hat
fashions. But you never gave it a thought, other then
there lays a busted up brick. Was that not a
blessing?
You see blessings comes in
all ways, shapes, and forms. Most of the blessings we
never take note of. We think at days end what good
happened today? We may think today was a rotten
day. Was it really a rotten day? You lived through
it didn't you?
It is just a nice close at
the end of the day as you fall into bed to say.
"Thanks God for today, Thank you for the blessings of
today."
Is there much else to say?
Leave the phone lines open for the long winded wind
bags that is asking for the world.
Now think back. Do you
remember the rich little brat, that asked for a truck
load of toys?Was that kid ever really happy? Maybe
you might think so. I wonder. I also remember the one
that maybe got one or at most a couple toys.
I Remember what my Mother
said about her Christmas as a child. A doll was about
it. It was the same one that she already had. It had
been patched up a bit. A new rag for a dress would be
about it. A small sack of candy, very small, a apple
or orange, maybe. She was happy. She was most richly
Blessed.
Also remember God knows
better, what we need. Just say, "I called to say I
Love You, thanks for the many blessings of today, Good
Night."
So as I close here... God
Bless. Good Bye till we meet again. Here or on the
other side of the curtain.
(c) 2004 Bill Walker
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