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July 28, 2007

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from your friends at Storytime Tapestry

From Acaysha: acaysha@earthlink.net  

 Dear Acaysha,

   I am pleased to announce the birth of a new magazine titled Transformations.  It is a magazine that will focus on promoting holistic and spiritual lifestyle changes for the world.  I am in need of DONATED informative and quality articles (500 - 1500 words) for the magazine. The articles can be on topics on nutrition, spirituality, Angels & Miracles, God, Herbs, vitamins, exercising, stress management, loving thy neighbor, etc.  If it will encourage or educate the reader toward a more holistic and spiritual lifestyle, please send it along.

   I was hoping you would share this request with your authors. I am not able to pay for the articles, but will absolutely give them a by-line at the end of the article for credit purposes.

Peace, Blessings and Thanks,

Rev.Lena Sheehan
Visionary * Healer* Author * Teacher
P.O. Box 5944, Goodyear, AZ 85338
(toll free) 877-536-2462

email: lena@lenainc.com

A LETHAL NUMBERS GAME
The National and the Globe lead, while CTV News, the Post, La Presse and the Citizen go inside with the execution of one of a group of twenty-three South Korean hostages currently being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The bullet-riddled body of forty-two-year-old pastor Bae Hyung-kyu—reportedly the leader of the twenty-three kidnapped Christian evangelicals—was found yesterday by police in the Ghazni province of central Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told the Globe that Bae’s execution was a response to the Afghan government’s failure to meet the captors’ demands—the release of eight detained Taliban insurgents in exchange for eight South Korean hostages—and that the rest of the captive South Koreans, who were taken hostage on July 19, would be killed if the demands were not met by 1 a.m. Thursday morning. However, The National reports, Ahmadi is an unreliable source and has been quoted elsewhere as saying that Bae was shot only because he had become ill and was unable to walk. According to the Citizen, this morning’s deadline passed without any further bloodshed.

The kidnapping of foreigners is becoming an increasingly common negotiation tactic for the Taliban, whose new military leader, Mansour Dadullah, is quoted in the Globe as encouraging insurgents to take hostage as many foreigners as possible. Afghan president Hamid Karzai has vowed not to release any more detained insurgents in exchange for foreign captives, after he was criticized for doing so to secure the release of an Italian journalist earlier this year. However, Karzai is now in a strategically and morally untenable position: either he trades detained insurgents for hostages, thereby encouraging the Taliban’s new favourite strategy, or he retreats from negotiations, allowing captives to die in the hopes that Dadullah et al will lose interest. Around one thousand mourners gathered at Bae’s church yesterday, just south of Seoul, to pay respects to their pastor.

AN EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD TRAGEDY
The Post fronts, while The National, the Globe, the Star and the Citizen go inside with a Toronto renovator’s macabre discovery of what appears to be an eighty-year-old mummified baby. Bob Kinghorn was working on a neighbour’s house in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood on Tuesday night when he came across a flowered comforter placed between the second-floor ceiling and the attic floor. His first thought: “I was hoping somebody stashed some cash there from a bank robbery,” he told the Star. Unfortunately for Kinghorn, the reality was less lucrative and more disturbing: Inside the comforter was a 1925 edition of the Globe wrapped around the mummified remains of an infant. According to The National, a police forensics team has already begun tests to determine the baby’s age, gender and cause of death, though a criminal investigation is doubtful given that anyone involved in the death is likely now dead as well. In addition to the mummy’s already horrible provenance, the Globe reports that Della Emily Russell, the wife in a couple who occupied the house in 1925, was confined to a psychiatric hospital by the time her home was sold in 1941. For his part, Kinghorn has taken the discovery personally and is raising money for the baby’s funeral by selling video footage he made of the mummy’s unwrapping to media sources. Near tears, he explained on The National last night that the incident has forced him to hold his two children a little bit closer.

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Today’s Stories

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 AWE

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

     There is nothing quite like the break of day in the mountains during Summer. I walked out into one this morning surrounded by my four, furry friends. I could feel right away my dogs’ excitement and joy too. The air was cool, fresh, and sweet. Its gentle breezes kissed my face the moment I opened the door. The sunshine was still hiding playfully behind the trees, but I could now see its golden light breaking though the leaves. Dew was still on the ground and the scent of wild flowers was tickling my nose. A white tailed rabbit was finishing breakfast in the tall grass near the woods. In the sky birds were soaring into the morning sunrise while hidden in the trees their feathered friends were singing songs of love to Heaven. It was so glorious and so awe-inspiring. My heart felt full to overflowing with God’s love and my soul seemed to expand in joy knowing that I too was a part of His wonderful creation.

     I learned recently that in the original Greek Bible the word "Fear" also translates as "Awe".  This made sense to me, because while I have never really felt afraid of God I feel in awe of His glorious, powerful, and unconditional love for us every single day. I feel in awe of this wondrous world He created. I feel in awe of this life He gave me here. I feel in awe that I am here to be His Child, to share His Love, and to do His Will. I find too that with thankfulness in my heart and awe in my soul there is very little room left for any fear in my life.

     This world we live in is so awe-inspiring. The love that God has for us is so awe-inspiring.  Why don’t we make the lives we live here awe-inspiring as well? The choice is up to us. Don’t live in fear then. Live in love. Don’t live in fear of God. Live in love for God. Don’t ignore the wonder and awe that is all around you. Become a part of it instead. Be the Child of God you were meant to be: giving love, spreading joy, sharing light, and inspiring awe.

Joe Mazzella

joecool@wirefire.com

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Tips On Picking Your Pup.

Bill Walker

missourisage@yahoo.com

I see this morning a Vet has tips on picking out your puppy.  Well wonderful, he can take his tips, and go to the devil with them. I never have got a dog, that came from a hot shot breeder. I have taken a dog into my home, and heart because of the fact I happened to be at the right place in life, and needed a friend. I would say this might be the case for many. 

If we all took this Vets advice, there would be millions of poor dogs, who would never have a home; lots more then what there is. There are many dog of mix breed who have proved out to be a most wonderful dog, and friend.

I went in my time to a breeder, and picked out two dogs from the group.  Chinker, and Tinker was such.  Maybe the right words is these two picked me out as who they wanted to go home with.  The others came along by accident.  I saw them and took a have to have them deal.  I knew nothing about where, and who was the breeder if there was a breeder. Did one prove out to be a better?  No I don't think so. 

Most people fall in the class of wanting a dog, maybe look at dogs, and then take one home. There are not a lot of questions asked in most cases. Getting a pup in your life is in a way much like the day one finds themselves in front of a preacher, with a strange person at their side.  In that case, you’re going to wind up with a lot of unknowns at the best. In my case, she is lovely to look at, and she turned into a regular Witch after the “I do stuff.”  Just my Friday joke, never been down that road.

A dog is what you make them; sure all dogs may have a health problem, this will happen even with the best of dogs, and breeders.  We need only look at humans and see this also.  Look at all the so called upper crust, some of the time their offspring turn out to be a regular headache;  even gets to visit a jail cell for a while.  Might be a beauty princess, still gets to visit a jail cell.  Then there are health problems even with the upper crust, same as with the bottom crust.

No I think I have been blessed with some pretty fine friends who just happened along at the right time.  They needed a home, and I needed a friend. They just happened. I didn't give one hoot about the breeder.  Poor Little Poo had his health problems, he was said to have came from some hot shot breeders.  I took care of his health problems as best as I could, he was my friend.

I didn't pick or get any dog with the real thought of nothing but I like this little guy or gal. Let’s go home, I think you like me.  Remember this any dog, isn't going to be just perfect, just like that mate you landed.  But you have a far better chance on the dog of being perfect, you can train them, mates is hard to do any thing with at times. 

Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

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Poetry Corner

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 Trumpeting

Sandra Lewis Pringle

Here I am, I say,

seemingly, all alone.

Some of those who walk around me,

seem concerned for themselves, their own.

Maybe they haven't heard,

Maybe they've closed their minds,

not knowing,

that with a little seeking,

they may find.

The most difficult way is the selfish way;

carrying all burdens in heaps.. . .

unwilling to trust the Savior,

as fear begins to creep.

The longer one insists to carry his burden alone,

the heavier that burden grows,

until all is gone.

Carrying burdens will make us bend,

will bring us into destruction;

will take away those things from us,

that have grown more important,

than the One Who is filled with Resurrection.

He is the only One,

Who can bring us out of the pit;

He is the Only One,

Who can give us energy,

so that we do not quit.

It's time to become a vessel,

to open up the spout.

It's time to go forth in faith,

and to remove all fear and doubt.

© 2007  Sandra Lewis Pringle

SLPENT1@aol.com   

Readers Feedback

 Carol,
   Our language is so full of amazing and confusing metaphors.
Some are as sweet as sugar and some as bitter as vinager.
The English language can be a true Lemon at times, but your article made some wonderful lemonade out of it my friend.
Wishing you every joy, Joe

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