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Dec 13, 2006

Today’s announcements

If anyone on Storytime can help me, it sure would be appreciated.

If anyone has any photos or has ever seen what I am about to describe, please contact me.

Was there a U.S. uniform, used in the military that the pants and shirt were both khaki colored?  The pants were tucked inside tall black military boots.  On the right side of the person wearing the uniform would be a long case, that I would think either held some type of gun or knife.

The hat is made of cloth, also khaki colored.  It has a brim all around the hat.  It is not a helmet.

I have searched many photos online of uniforms from WWI and WWII and can't find a uniform like what I'm describing.  I did find a hat like the one I'm looking for.

Any information sure would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Sharon Bryant

1946@bellsouth.net

Now onto the good stuff!

Today’s Queue Stories

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FEELING LOVED

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

     I got to hold a baby again recently. I had taken my son to the doctor’s office for a checkup and noticed a tired grandmother trying to fill out the office’s paperwork and comfort her sick grandchild at the same time. I offered to help and gently rocked the infant back to sleep. With all of my children teenagers now it had been a while since I had held someone quite so small in my arms. As I looked at his sweet, innocent face I couldn’t help but to think of what life held in store for him. I knew that it would be a mixture of both joy and fear, laughter and tears, growth and struggle, learning and difficulty, and love and pain. I said a silent prayer that he would learn quickly to choose the good things and not to dwell on the bad. I also prayed that he would always feel loved in this life. I knew that if he felt loved then he would also choose love and share love with so many others as well.

     I then said this prayer for the rest of us too. We may be fathers, mothers, and grandparents now, but inside of each of us there is still a child needing love and wanting to be loved. Thankfully, we have a parent who loves us with a love that is both unending and unconditional. We are all Children of God and we are always held in His loving arms as we go through this life. Even if we haven’t always felt loved by the people in our lives we can be assured that His love will always be there for us.

    May we all feel loved in this life. May we all feel God’s love for us from our first breath until our last sigh. May we feel loved through all the joy we experience and through all the pain we must face as well. May we use that love to choose the good things in life and not dwell on the bad. May we use that love to become more loving ourselves every single day of our lives. May we use that love and share our love to help others feel loved as well.

Joe Mazzella

joecool@wirefire.com

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Tannia would like feedback on this piece.  She is a poet trying her wings at fiction writing and is very interested in what you think about her first attempt at writing an interview.

My interview with Robbie Williams

Tannia Ortiz-Lopes

If you ever have the chance of interviewing Robbie Williams, what would you ask him? Do you think you would be nervous? Or would you act cool? Will the words come out right? Would you make a fool out of yourself? All those questions and tons more went through my head the night I had the chance to interview him….

The Robbie Williams Show was sizzling hot! The audience sang along with him. He danced so graciously and at times provocative, too! He jumped and shook his hinny at the rhythm of the music. This young fellow was full of energy and his excitement was very contagious! He, indeed, was a born entertainer!!!

I was so excited!  Thanks to that delicious snickers bar, I won a backstage ticket, including a private audience with him. I could not believe it. I was there and nobody was going to stop me now! Yeah, baby, I was going to interview Robbie Williams and a nervous rack, too!

After the show, he left the stage accompanied by his body guards; a total of six studs. They were distributed as follows; two in front of him, two besides him, and the last two behind him. He walked out of the stage well protected, but still friendly to his fans.  The studio was fulled pack and the audience was still screaming for that great show they witnessed tonight!

Back stage was a different story. Robbie went to his room to relax and refresh himself. He was calm, smoking a cigarette, and having a drink when I was allowed to enter his room. He was wearing no shirt and I was able to admired quietly all of his tattoos. I had to control myself, not to allow my hand to feel all that forest of hair on his chest. It was tempting, very tempting. Nevertheless, I was a grown up woman capable of controlling all those childish impulses. 

He noticed my dilemma, looked at me, and gave me one of those “I dare you” type of smile. I prayed for strength and wisdom, not to embarrass myself any further. I was given only 15 minutes backstage pass with him and I needed to make the best out of it. My time was running out, so I managed a short and sweet interview in a very professional manner.

Me: “You, Ricky Martin, and Enrique Iglesias are some of the most famous young male singers of this time. Your music styles are similar and yet so different. Do you share the same song writer?”

Robbie: “Ricky Martin and I have known each other for over 14 years. After Menudo we stayed friends. Yes, I have written some songs for Ricky.”

Me: “The next question has a more personal tone; what has been your greatest personal challenge?”

Robbie: “To find true love.”

At this point we moved from the chair and got more comfortable on his couch. We layed down together and stared at each other’s eyes. It was a very tender moment. No desires nor lust. Just two complete strangers talking about life’s successes and failures.

Me: “Do you feel lonely sometimes?”

Robbie: “Yes, however, when I perform and see the audience’s reaction to my show, I forget all about it and move on. After the show is over, it’s always good to have some company to help you to wind down, if you know what I mean.”

He winked his left eye and smiled at me.  We got up and shook hands. He kissed my right cheek and I felt my knees wobbling.

Me: “Robbie, I want to thank you for your time. By the way, here is my business card with my email address. Feel free to drop me a line from time to time.”

Robbie: “Thanks”

I was escorted out of the building by one of his body guards.

I walked to my car and before turning on the engine, I looked at myself in the back view mirror and smiled. Then I heard a buzzing sound. I searched for my cell phone, and as my right hand reached for it, I turned off my alarm clock!

Tannia Ortiz-Lopes

tanniaortizlopes@yahoo.com

Tannia E. Ortiz-Lop?s was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico and currently lives in Germany with her husband and two sons. On 2004, the author published her first free-style inspirational poetry book, The Window to my soul, My Walk with Jesus, with Tate Publishing and under the pen name of Mary Magdalene. On March 2006, the book was voted “Best Poetry Book” by www.christianstoryteller.com The book could be purchased directly from the publisher at www.tatepublishing.com and at all major online stores.

Tannia E. Ortiz-Lop?s

"The Window to My Soul, My Walk with Jesus"

Voted "2006 BEST CHRISTIAN POETRY BOOK"

by www.christianstoryteller.com

www.tatepublishing.com
www.myspace.com/tanniaortizlopes

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 All from Insights from a Blind Man: Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen
E-mail Address(es):
chrishansen54@sbcglobal.net

Amazing Prophecies About Jesus Summary

By Chris Hansen

Genesis 3:15: 4000 B.C.  Eve is told that Christ will come.

Genesis 49:10: 1700 B.C. Christ will come after Judah loses his ruler’s staff.

Numbers 24:15-17: 1300 B.C. a star will announce Christ’s coming.

Deuteronomy 18:18-19: 1300 B.C.  Moses announces that Christ will come.

1 Chronicles 28:4: 1000 B.C.  Christ will come through David’s family.

1 Chronicles 17:11-14: 1000 B.C. another promise that Christ will come through David. 

Job 9:8: 2000 B.C.  Job saw Christ walking on the waves of the sea.

Job 19:25: 2000 B.C.  Job saw Christ and His followers rise from death.

Psalm 2: 1000 B.C.  Christ would be conceived as God’s Son and rule the nations.

Psalm 9:13-14: 1000 B.C.  Christ would be persecuted and rise from death.

Psalm 16:5-11: 1000 B.C.  Christ would rise from death.

Psalm 18:10: Christ would soar on the wings of the wind.  Acts 1:9 and Psalm 102:3.

Psalm 22: Crucifixion.

Psalm 22:1: “My God!  My God!”

Mark 15:34-37: Crucifixion details.

Psalm 22:14-18: Matthew 27:39-44 Luke 23:34 John 19:23.

Psalm 30:2-5: 1000 B.C.  Christ adored, heals, raises the dead.  Luke 7:1-24.

Psalm 31:4-5: 1000 B.C.  Christ Crucified.

Psalm 41:9: 1000 B.C.  Judas will betray Christ. 

Psalm 42:1-11: 1000 B.C.  Christ yearns for His Father.  John 12:27.  Matthew 26:38.

Psalm 69:7-21: Crucifixion.

Psalm 21:8: “Jesus is crazy!”  Mark 3:20-21.

Psalm 69:9: Zeal for His Father’s house!  John 2:22.

Psalm 69:21: Vinegar to drink.  Mark 15:22-23.

Psalm 89:9: Calming the storm.

Psalm 102:23: Christ’s life cut short.

Psalm 104:2: Transfiguration Luke 17:2.

Psalm 104:14-15, John 2: Jesus would create wine.

Psalm 107:3, Luke 13:28-29: Redeemed gathered from east and west.

Psalm 107:20: Jesus would heal and raise the dead.  Luke 7.

Psalm 107:23-30: Jesus would calm a great storm.  Mark 4:35-41

Psalm 119:97-107: Jesus at twelve years old.  Luke 2:41-52.

Psalm 119:8: Wiser than His enemies: Matthew 22:15-35 and Psalm 119:10.

Psalm 131: Jesus as a small child.

Psalm 146:7-8: Feeds the hungry: Mark 6:30; healing, Mark 6:55.

Proverbs 30:4: God’s Son John 3:13: Matthew 16:13-18.

Isaiah 7:10-14: 700 B.C.  Jesus born of a virgin.

Isaiah 9:6-7: Jesus would be both God and human.

Isaiah 50:4-10: His mission.

Isaiah 50:4: Sustaining the weary: Matthew 11:28.

Isaiah 50:4: Early morning prayer: Mark 1:35.

Isaiah 50:5: Jesus would not draw back.  Mark 14:35-36.

Isaiah 50:6: Jesus would be beaten.  Mark 15:15; Mark 14:65.

Isaiah 50:8: He set his face like a flint toward Jerusalem.  Luke 9:51.

Isaiah 50:8: Jesus confronts His accusers!  Luke 23:13-15.

Isaiah 52:13-15: Brutal treatment of Jesus would shock us into silence!

Isaiah 53: Jesus had to die for our sin. 

Isaiah 53:7: Jesus would remain silent.  Mark 15:4-5.

Isaiah 53:9: A grave with the wicked.  and with the rich.

Jeremiah 31:31-33: 626 B.C.  God will make a new covenant.  Matthew 26:27.

Daniel 9:24-27: 500 B.C.  Exact time of Jesus’ arrival and death.

Hosea 6:1-4: 700 B.C.  Jesus will rise after three days.

Micah 5:1: 700 B.C.  Jerusalem siege.  Jesus would be beaten.

Micah 5:2: Jesus would come from Bethlehem.

Zechariah 9:9: 500 B.C. Jesus would come riding a donkey not a war-horse.  John 12.

Zechariah 12:10: They will mourn for pierced Messiah!

Zechariah 13:6: Jesus would be wounded in the house of his friends!

Zechariah 13:7: Jesus the shepherd would be struck and His sheep would scatter.

© by Chris Hansen

Author of Grandfather's Journal

Revelation Revisited and Secret of the Psalms

Author of Grandfather's Journal

Revelation Revisited and Secret of the Psalms

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Readers Feedback

  What a beautiful, heartbreaking story of the effect of mental illness on a family.  I, too, have issues because of this same illness, only it was my mother who was afflicted.  Thanks Ina Townsend Young for helping me with my "Guilt".  God bless, Sharlett Hunt

Re. Man of Honor,  Thank you Allison.  We need a needle in our conscience.  It is much less painful to turn away.  It is much easier to believe that the ----government will take responsibility, or the state or the town or the neighbor.  We don’t want to see.  There is the stray dog, the litter of kittens, the homeless that live in that cluster of cardboard boxes .  How much pain can we bear when there are no solutions except those written in invisible ink?  Who do we blame? It is easier to turn away and not see.  We put a dollar in the red pot by the ringing bell.  We pray that someone else will care.      Louise

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