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Sept 21, 2005? 

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Animal awareness series endorsed by Shiloh and Hank our mascots; all stories must receive their approval.

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? Nobody To Give Them a Ride? 

? ? ? ? ? ?  Sharlett F. Hunt

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?  Poor.?  What does it feel like to be poor in 2005??  Are there really poor people in the United States in this day and time??  Sadly there is.

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?  This finally became a reality after the recent storm, Katrina, in New Orleans.?  East met West, you might say, and rocks were overturned to reveal an impoverished world that some of our elected didn't realize existed.?  There really are those who are too poor to evacuate a storm.?  Many had no transportation and no money to buy it.?  It's horrifying that? some had nobody to even give them a ride in such a situation.?  Hundreds died as a result of being poor.

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?  I live in the center of a peninsula that is frequently the target of severe storms.? Being poor and with no transportation, Katrina has taught me to plan ahead.?  I have pets, a cat and a bird,? and wouldn't want to see one as a victim of a hurricane.? ? They go with me.?  I live in an old mobile home and couldn't just leave them to fend for themselves.?  To some of us our pets are like our children.?  I live alone so they became like little furry (and feathery)? people to me.

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?  All the animals that lost their homes and lives in? Katrina is really upsetting.?  Most probably came from homes where the people had to make a choice of kids or pet.?  I try not to think of the faces of those grief stricken children or the little animals that were left behind or the ones who died because they couldn't leave their pets.?  But we should think of all this.?  We need to learn from this.? 

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?  Everybody wants to give money now to help with all the needs that are a result of a tragedy such as this but nobody offered them a ride before all this happened.?  Nobody tried to offer a hand up, not a hand out.?  The president is appropriating billions of dollars to "fix" New Orleans.?  Money will help but it isn't going to fix it.? 

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?  I just hope we can learn from this.?  There will always be a division of class in the US.?  I am so glad that God sees us every one as equal.?  In His eyes we are one and the same.? 

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Sharon Bryant

1946 @bellsouth.net

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About Me:

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? I am Sharon Bryant,? 59 years old and reside in Alabama.

I lost my child in 1977 when he was five and I write
articles on bereavement often.

I am a chocolate/candy maker and also a wood crafter and knitter.

I am married to a wonderful man, and have two remaining children, a daughter 25,
Amy, and a second son, Randy, age 22.

My main goal in life is to help those who
have lost a child. My website is: www.angelsremembered.tk

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Today's Queue Stories
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? Dare to be Different?  ? 

Joyce C. Lock? 
? ? ? ?  The more we discover who God is, the more we come to realize there is no opinion of value, apart from God, in even the simplest of matters.
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? ? ? ?  For example: How many times have we had a profound thought, considering it of no importance to write it down; keeping it until its divine purpose is revealed??  There is many a poet, song writer, or author whose gift God is trying to awaken, to use for Him; God's effort being cheapened? due to? low opinions of ourselves.
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? ? ? ?  I don't know of anyone who respects a writer, thinking him a loafer, except he has actually been published.?  Try to get a loan, or a common job, listing occupation as ???writer??™.
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? ? ? ?  Apply for a writing position and the most likely question will be, "Where did you get your education, or training?"?  People snub male writers, thinking it a sick excuse to avoid society or work (unless they are, already, bringing in big bucks).
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? ? ? ?  If one keeps a diary, television tells us it will be full of dark secrets that will only come back to haunt us.?  When a child finds pleasure in recording their thoughts, we, sometimes, impatiently await them outgrowing it.
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? ? ? ?  Knowing one who keeps meticulous books, records, and ledgers (except it be their job or it directly benefits us); we tend to think them a neat freak, obsessive, or weird.
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? ? ? ?  Where do we get these ideas of what is important, or acceptable, and what is not??  How do we get the gall to look down on people? different from? us??  When did we start thinking God could not use people, without degrees, or that money is proof of God's calling??  And, who made our opinion the authority, anyway?
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? ? ? ?  God is the author above all authors; who 'not only used ordinary people, of extra-ordinary faith, to write the Bible (the greatest collection of books ever written) but,' keeps meticulous books, records, and ledgers in Heaven ... even a diary of memories, Malachi 3:16.?  Compelling some of God's children with His creative ability to write; when we put them down, we put Him down.
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? ? ? ?  If God calls you out to be different, follow Him every step of the way and His purpose will be revealed.
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? ? ? ?  I am convinced, more and more, that we need to quit telling God what He believes and thinks in EVERY given matter.?  Only then can we begin to know how He sees things.? 

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~ A Blessing to You ~

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Minister to the saved.
Minister to the lost.
Minister to each other
Without counting the cost.

Be there for each other,
As God asks you to do.
Showing His love toward others
Will be a blessing to you.

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?© by Joyce C. Lock
http://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/

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An Early Birthday Gift

Susan Roberts

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The other night my phone rang and the sweet voice of my grandaughter came over the line. "Hi Nana. I got an early birthday present for you." she said.

"Oh can I open it now?" I asked.

"Noooooo. I am going to have a baby!" she answered.

"Yipeee!! I am going to be a great greatgrandma"

"Un, Nana, you are only going to be a great grandma." her voice was puzzled.

"No, I am already a "great" grandma, cause I am the best, so this baby will have a "great" great grandma." I teased her.

"Oh right, I got ya now." she laughed.

"Well, I am going to be 60 next week and will be a great grandma next year, so if this baby grows up and has a baby say in 18 years, then i will be 78, and if THAT baby has a baby in another 18 years, then I can be a great,great,great grandma before I die!" I said as I counted on my fingers how many greats I would be.

"I love you Nana." she said as she hung up the phone.

Well, I plan on living till I am 108 years old, I am going to be shot by a 23 year old woman cause i am going out with her 25 year old boyfriend, and he likes me better than her, so I may even be able to squeeze in ANOTHER great in the grandma. What do you think????

Susan Roberts

twofamily2 @earthlink.net

About Me:
I am now married to my second husband. We live on five acres outside of a little town in the Florida Panhandle. I take care of my 92-year-old mother in law. I have two living children, two stepchildren and seven beautiful grandchildren. I am an author of a recently published book GOD and The Hillbilly, published thru publishamerica.com, about a young woman I met online who was in avery abusive marriage with two little children. It is based on her life and what happened when shereached out for help and got out of the situation. She was a blessing to know. I have been blessed so much in my life with wonderful family, friends and online friends. If you go to publishamerica.com and click on "search," that will take you to the book site. If you click on the reviews, you will find that I have two pages of reviews, all giving the book five stars. There is a review from the Victim Advocate for the Wakulla County Sheriff Dept. as well.

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I hear (It is just a dream isn??™t it?)

Saskia Nienna Streidel

I hear my sister singing. A child??s voice ??“ soft and full of dreams. But my sister is already grown up; an adult without the dreams in her voice. She already woke up to daylight.

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I hear my grandmother telling us fairytales. She sounds so concentrated, so happy. She is in her element. But she is just a ghost in my mind and a love in my heart. She is gone since years.

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I hear my friend??s baby crying. He is just a baby, his crying almost brakes my heart. This innescent call for love and attention in his voice. But he is already a boy. His voice is clearer and stronger.

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I hear my brother calling for me. He sounds as the stormy wind in the trees. That is how it always was. But my brother is gone,?  his death was the fire. He is just here as a wound in my heart.

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I hear??¦

But it is just a dream.

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Is it?

Saskia Nienna Streidel

saskiaofthewoods@yahoo.de

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My name is Saskia Steidel, I am born the? 17.10.1981 in Germany. I live in a small?  village in the middle of the woods and love to write. Right now I study learn therapy and music therapy and I just quit my job as a ticket manager in the administration of an soccer club, to have more time to study and to write and to work as a Nanny, what I really love. So far I published poems and some other pieces in different books and published one book called "Am Ende der Nebel". Right now I am writing on a children??™s book.

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Writers Feedback

? Sit ??“ Sharon Bryant - That ia really cute story?  Dogs really are smarter that given credit for

? Nat Symonds.

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Hello Sharon

I could not help crying as I read your artical and have read other articals too. I know exactly how it feels like when someone loses a child, because I have also lost my son, my first born at the age of 26 years. He was most handsome, very precious little jewl who had a brilliant future ahead of him. He was snatched away from me and my two younger sons. You know, I was hiding my children from my violent husband so that he could not harm them but God needed him more than me. Being the eldest, he was the tower of strength for us.

I? have always been ? a great believer in God and was brought up to pray and be good to other people.. but how? can you explain this act of God?

No one knows how we survived these ten years without him. He?  is always in my heart. I can never be? 100% happy on special? occassions. When I see my two sons together, third face is always there with them, which only I can see.? 

When my youngest son David got married, I could only see the face of my first son Raja. People were looking at me with tears rolling down my eyes and could only ask, "Where is David? I can only see my Raja"

His birthday is approaching on 15 October and am already thinking what I felt like with my first pregnencey.

When his body was brought to the house for the last time, people asked me to stop crying and I simply said, "Yu don't know what is happening inside me, in my mind, body and soul."

I agree with you completely, no one can understand this chemical reaction inside a mother's mind body and soul. It is always there, even when I try to laugh. This pain will never go away as long as I live.

I admire your work to help others. I am writing a book and will try to describe some of the pain that we feel when losing our child.

Regards

S K Jandu

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Dear Carol,

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Thanks for publishing this most wonderful essay.

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Roger Dean Keiser once described good writing as yours you can see, hear, touch and smell. I wept when I read Sharon's miraculous words.

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Again, thanks.

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Peace,

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Ron Gold

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Carol--

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This piece was delightful.?  I've been Jewsh all my life.?  I tend to look at things through a Jewish perspective.

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You experience this viewpoint with wonderment:?  hearinf the canto, watching the rabbi, eing impressed with the Torah.?  I assumed you and Matt shared in the Oneg Shabbat .. the

"coffee and" hour.

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Reading your piece I saw the service through newborn eyes.

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Thanks for the (needed) experience.

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Peace be with you and Matt.

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God bless,

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Ron Gold

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Carol, so well done.?  "The Shores of Gallilee" was a beautiful insight into your relationship with both Matt and the Jewish religion.?  I have been privileged to be invited into a service; there is a certain music to the cantor's use of the Hebrew language to draw you in.?  I felt like I had been thrown into Biblical times and I was walking beside God's true people.

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Thank you for sharing this with your readers.

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Blessings,

Barb

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I loved Sharon??™s story. Those pets know what to do when it comes to treats.?  Mark Crider

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They sure do, and Bob went nuts when he smelled me packing up 150 lb.s of
peanut butter fudge today!
We're loaded and ready to head out in the morning.
Going to Ocean Springs, Mississippi and Pasagoula, they say everyone is
living in tents there, all homes gone.?  We have something for everyone in
both vehicles.?  Food, boys clothes, girls, babies, food supplies, dog food,
toys, blankets, baby bottles, diapers, toilet paper, cleaners, trash bags,
everything they can use down there.?  I'll be taking photos but I'm told to
be prepared, that's it's very hard to see in real life.
I'm ready.........God is riding with us.
Sharon

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? SENIOR WRITERS

Chief Writer: Sharon Bryant

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? Agee, Vance;? Apted, Violet;? Baker, Kathy; Batt, Al;?  Berry, Nell;

Boda, Ginger;? ? Buhagiar, Victor; Cassady, B.J.;?  Cavalera, Robyn; Crider, Mark;? 

Deming, Barb; Doherty, Maria; Goodier, Steve; Halley, Ellie Braun;

Harris, Kathy Anne;? Hunt, Sharlette;? 

Jacobson, Gary;? Kiser, Roger Dean; Kerens, Claudia; Jenkins, Pamela;

Liles, Norma; Lock, Joyce; Mazzella, Joe;? Ojeigbe, Georgewaters;

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Walker, Bill; Walker, Joe;? Warner, Gorden K;

Whirity, Kathy;? White, Robert;

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