Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

Nov 18, 2006

Today’s announcements

The votes are in and the winner has been determined, but you know normally I publish the winner, second place winner and third place winner all at once.  This time I am going to do it differently.  Only the third place winners will be published today, the second place winner on the 19^th and the winner of the contest will published on the 20^th of November.

I know I am mean but I enjoy it. 

Now for the third place winners:

There was a two way tie for third place:

The winners were:

1)    Michael Smith for – I Stood in The Rain

2)    Lisa West for – Pumpkin Face

Congratulations for great submissions.

Hello folks,

Good news! Prayer really worked for Ruth Gallagher today!!!  The tumors have been removed and she doesn't even have to go back to the doctor & whatever post surgery care needed, she can do it on her own.  I am so excited over this news that I failed to say: "NO CANCER!"  On behalf of Ruth, I wish to thank you so much for your prayers.  She wanted to be sure to let you all know.  love and blessings,  Normie: hoopla214@yahoo.com

^{Remember that all stories and poems were lost because of the computer crash, if you sent me anything in late August, September or October and you haven’t seen it published please send it back again.  Thank you.}

See below for Storytime Angels

Now onto the good stuff!

Today’s Queue Stories

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 LIGHTED CANDLES

Joe Mazzella

I have a lot of candles in my home. Most of them just sit on the shelves
gathering dust and waiting for another power outage to take out those pesky
electric lights. Every now and then, though, I do take the time to light up
one or two of them. It feels good to sit quietly and watch their flickering,
little fires beat back the darkness around them. It puts me back in touch
with the candles burning within myself as well. Enlightenment for me hasn't
come from flicking on a single switch but rather from lighting one candle at
a time in my heart, mind, and soul. I know that I still have a long way to
go too, but I am lighting more candles everyday.

Most of the candles burning inside of me, in fact, weren't even lit by me.
They were lit by other shining souls I met along the journey of my life. The
brightest flame they lit is the truth that God loves you, me, and everyone
in this world. With this flame you can light enough candles to brighten the
whole universe. Some of the other flames they ignited in me and that I want
to pass on to you are these. Love is stronger than hate. Giving brings more
joy than receiving. Forgiveness heals our hearts. Love and joy are both
choices we make and gifts we share. Hate comes from ignorance, but love
brings wisdom. We are all Children of God. And we should not only claim our
birthright, but live up to it as well.

We are all one family here and we should do our best to help each other's
candles burn as brightly and beautifully as possible. Take happiness then in
lighting the candles of learning and love inside of yourself. Take joy when
others light them inside you as well. And with love and goodness share their
light with everyone everywhere. Remember that we all come from God's light.
Until we return to it we all should do our best to burn brightly and cast
the darkness out of this world.

Joe Mazzella

joecool@wirefire.com

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Reading The Bible

Bill Walker

missourisage@yahoo.com

A lady and I was writing one another about certain verses in the Bible.  She said one we was talking, or in this case writing about, one needed to read the verse following it also.

This put me to thinking.  So I read the one following it, I also read the one before. I ended up reading the whole chapter.  I know that a good preacher will take a person to different books in the Bible, picking out a verse here, and there for back up on the sermon.  But a person should have paper and a pen to write down the different places he drew from.  Go home and take Bible and read not only the verse but the one before and after.  Sometimes even the whole chapter.  This is called study time, sure can learn a lot.  Study slow and easy, might take the whole week, an hour each day, and be back next Sunday a bit smarter.

You see lots of time taking just one verse, is like opening a book.  Read a one page, and say you read the book.  No you can't say you know what the book is really about.  The Bible is no different. 

The different jumps from book to book in the Bible is well and good.  Each one backs up the point he is making in his sermon.  But one needs to go home, and read more.  Might learn why the one named in that one verse did what they did.

Reading one verse is like a war.  A soldier knows just what is in front of him.  A captain knows a little bit more then just in front.  He might know for a mile or two each way.  The major will know maybe four or five miles.  The colonel may know twenty, maybe a hundred miles.  The general may know a thousand miles.  Each one has a picture.  The picture get bigger as it goes up the chain of command.  Then you’re going to find the man in charge of the whole operation that has to see the whole super size picture.  He will be the one who gets what is needed where it is needed at the time it is needed.  In this case I am thinking of the master mind that won World War Two. General George C.Marshall.  He had to see the whole super sized picture. He really had two wars to look at. Europe and the war in the Pacific.

Now back to the book of books, the Bible.  A person that is stuck on just a verse or two, will never see the whole picture.  Each verse is like a small picture.  A chapter is a little bigger picture. One of the books in the Bible is a bigger picture.  The whole Bible is the great big picture. The more you read is like putting on a little heaver armor.

The armor is not so heavy if it is just one verse. A chapter the armor gets a little weight. A book, well it just got you up to maybe a good fighter.  When one has read, and studied the whole Bible. You have the full armor of the Living God. 

Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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Poetry Corner

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GOD'S SALVATION PLAN

BY Nell Berry

11/14/99

I saw lightening, I heard violent thunder;

storms on the raging seas; people crying out for safety;

their cries became tortured pleas.

Ships tossed about without anchor;

billows rolling in great spans;

then as I watched I saw Jesus,

Who calmed them with a whispered command.

There on the cross I saw Jesus,

beaten and battered, in shame.

I saw His hands pierced by nails,

the bonds of death they became.

His side cruelly riven,

His life's blood flowing down,

His face, so painfully distorted

from the terrible thorns in His crown.

I saw anguish, pain and compassion,

in that face,

so tortured and torn.

The lines of strain, deepened,

as though carefully chiseled in stone.

On that face so precious,

a love not born of man,

a love so deep it was inconceivable,

a testimony to His nail pierced hands.

Limitless measures of mercy;

forgiveness and boundless grace;

you and me and all creation

was etched on that blood drenched

face.

Scenes from eternity revealed;

the flames of hell were fanned.

then as the tomb was opened,

I saw God's Salvation plan.

The tomb was truly empty,

His body was nowhere in sight.

Two women came and saw Him,

He was dressed in robes of white.

They did not recognize Him

until He spoke Mary’s name.

Their hope renewed they ran to Him,

“Master” they exclaimed.

“Do not touch me” He commanded.

They fell down and worshiped Him.

The scars from the nails were there in His hands.

the hole in His side He bore,

but His body was no longer there

inside the sepulcher door.

The grave clothes still were there

But the nails could not be found.

Only silence greeted them,

Death could not hold Him down.

That’s not the end of the story,

it has only just begun,

they hung on the cross at Calvary

Mary’s precious Son.

In the glory of the resurrection,

Triumphant o’er shame and scorn,

He was God’s Holy Anointed,

God’s Salvation plan had come.

Nell Berry

lberry001@centurytel.net

Bio: Nell is a mother of four, grandmother of nine and great grandmother of two precious baby girls. Her interests are sewing, crocheting, cooking and of course writing poems/song lyrics and short stories with a novel in the making. Lou her husband is retired and has a passion for duck hunting, fishing and woodworking. Give him a pattern and/or dimensions and he can build anything out of wood. He is a jack of all trades. They have 56 years worth of anniversaries and 75 years worth of birthdays. They now reside at Mark Twain Lake in Missouri. They praise God every day for those years together and their children and grandchildren.

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