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Oct 20, 2005 

Today??™s Announcements:

Congratulations to David Wainland for his HM in the WD contest.  That is one tough contest!

Barb D.

 A birthday wish goes out to Mark Shiveley from the gang at Storytime Tapestry.

Now on to the good stuff..........

Today's Queue Stories
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 Loneliness

Joyce C. Lock

    Loneliness is everywhere around us, sometimes within us, and is often responded to with, "If you want a friend, make yourself friendly" (taken from Pr. 18:24).

    We gulp, give it a try, and conclude it does not work.

    Scripture always works when properly applied.  Perhaps we are friendly for what we can get out of it (Ja. 4:3), or we take the meaning too lightly.

    Jesus is our best model of what a friend could and should be.  In all the ways He has loved us, we are to love each other (Jn. 15:12).  There is not much room for loneliness when our vessel is filled with love.

    All it takes is enough compassion to be the difference (Jude 22) and, in so doing, we can not out give God (Lu. 6:38).  In staying the course, we may also find the desires of our heart (Ps. 37:3-4) and to have both found and become a friend like Jesus.  The most beautiful part being that we would have become a best friend to Jesus, caring more about the desires of His heart than ours.  And when we walk with Him, we are and are being made complete.

    Not forgetting we are also human, why not give others a break and love them anyway?  Then, when they don't receive, just shake the dust off your feet and try again another day.  But better yet, seek those in need.  It could just be that the desire of their heart is the same as yours ~ to have a friend like Jesus.

Now who could resist that?
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I HAVE BEEN A TRUE FRIEND WHEN I HAVE ...

    Loved as my own soul (De. 13:6).  Taken time to get to know them.  Been trustworthy.  Both shared and ate spiritual manna (Ps. 41:9).  Loved at all times (Pr. 17:17).  Stuck closer than a brother (Pr. 18:24).  Been faithful even when wounded (Pr. 27:6).  Given hearty counsel (Pr. 27:9).  Been available when trouble comes (Pr. 27:10).  Sought to bring out the best in them (Pr. 27:17).  Believed God (Ja. 2:23).

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No matter the problem, we will find our way when we choose to believe God.

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

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Will Rogers

Bill Walker

wildbill6807@yahoo.com

If your looking for much about Will Rogers, forget this.  I just remember him by what I read and am told. I do remember he said. "Never met anyone I didn't like. There was something about them I liked."

I think in a way I am like that. I can if I am given a chance kind of find something about just about anyone to like.  I had a chance meeting yesterday with a fellow.  Never seen him before, and I will never see him again, but I liked him.

I was in a car dealer place in Lincoln.  I been having a problem for some time with my clunker. It is called over heating. Does it real good in heavy slow traffic. The locals in Beatrice is stumped as to the cause, well I am too, I have tried every thing I can think of.

Well yesterday the thing was hot hot.  So I seen this dealer place and I pulled in.  Now this place is real fancy.  Has a whole row of shop foremen.  You get one to talk to.  They also charge to look at you.  I understand the charge is killed if we do repairs and it runs more then talking price. Well any ways I said go for it.  I need the car to stay in the normal range of temp.. Been thinking about a trip to see some hot tomatoes.  I don't mind hot tomatoes, hot car is another thing.

Well we talked a bit, I told him what was going on. He asked if I wanted the car washed?  Now my car only sees water when it rains.  I know it could use a bath, but I said no. I was all ready going to have big enough bill anyways.  He said well it is free.  I thought yea 83 dollar car wash. I said. "well in that case OK."  That was last I seen of car for a couple hours, more like three hours.  I got taken to the waiting room. Nice great big TV.. and lots of reading stuff.  Didn't have a copy of a good book called Tinker and Poo, I noticed that.

Wasn't long till some fellow walked in and found a chair.  Now one could tell he might have a few dollars tucked away some where. Well this is the Caddie dealer, they do have Chevy also,, but then a new Chev cost way more then my clunker did new.

Little Girl made a move toward him and he reached down and petted her, said something to me. A few words was said back and forth.  After a  couple hours had went by and no report from and about car. I thought I would go outside, Little Girl might be in need of West Room.  We went out and was on way back in. Here he stood.  He said "Sir, can you tell me something?" Now I am not use to this "Sir" stuff. I said, " well if I can."  He said , "he know what corn was, but what is this stuff in fields about a foot or tall?"  I said, " I think you are speaking of beans  There is wheat, which has been cut,  there is corn, and milo, which doesn't grow but about 3 or so feet tall, and looks in a ways like corn,  but corn is at the range of 6 feet, and then beans.  Soy beans and such."  He then told me  he was from Pennsylvania.  Well I asked what brings him here?  Said he was on his way to Alaska.  Had made the trip about 40 years ago. Figured he would make it one more time. But this was a somewhat different way.  Wanted to know a good road to the Dakotas.

His trip sounded much the way I always liked to go.. Got some place to be headed for,  but kind of just head that way, take a new road, see the sights. We just stood there out in the open, talking.  He said he liked dogs, aways did, always will. Said Little Girl was a Doll. Well I told him her story, and about Tinker and Poo.. He said, "I bet they were something."

About that time here is the man with the news on car.  "Sorry we can't figure it out,  every thing is working as should. But the real news is your going to be coming back in a few days.. Your car is on a recall, and we don't have the parts.  We will call you when the parts are here. And I am calling the big guys about your problem, maybe we will have the answers."  My bill was 83 dollars, and car looks somewhat clean.  Should,  I never paid 83 dollars before for a car wash.

I said so long new friend, and signed a Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write book for him.  His last words was,  "I know I am going to enjoy this. And I have lots of friends that are nuts about dogs,  they will be told about you and your Tinker and Poo. They can buy their own book, this is mine.

Like Will Rogers. I never met anyone I didn't like if they give me a chance.

Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

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

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MESSENGERS OF LIGHT

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

     I met another angel in disguise the other day. This one came in the form of a beautiful little girl who couldn??™t have been more than 7 years old. I saw her at the local library hiding behind the back of a couch. As I walked by she popped up suddenly and smiled at me. "I know who you are", she said. I laughed and asked her who I was. "You mean you don??™t know!", she said. She then flashed her bright smile at me one more time before running off giggling.

     This little angel left me with a smile on my face, a light in my mind, and a question in my soul.  Who am I? Who are any of us really? Are we these bodies that carry us around everyday or are we more than that? Are we our jobs and professions or are those just things we do? Are we our families, nationalities, and skin color or are those just more ways that we label ourselves? Are we our personalities, egos, and experiences or are those things less than we are too?

     I think that we are all of these things, but that we are much more than them as well. I think that if we look deeply enough inside ourselves we can see beyond these surface things to our very souls. I think too that if we do we will find out who we really are: beings of light, love, and joy. We are not just people struggling through our lives here on Earth. We are also Children of God and angels in disguise connected to each other by the most powerful force in the world: God??™s love.

     God is love and God is light, and we are all here to share in that love and light as well. It is God??™s love and light that not only connects us with everyone in this world, but with our own highest selves as well. We all need to cherish that connection and do all we can to spread that love and light to the world. The word angel means messenger. May we all follow that little angel girl??™s example then and be messengers of love, laughter, and light in this world.

Joseph J. Mazzella
joecool @ wirefire.com

Joe lives in West Virginia with his wife and three children. Various dogs and cats have adopted Joe and his family for their own. Joe enjoys his family, beauty, love and hearing from his email friends. Joe likes to take the time to smell the roses and enjoy the beauty around him as he goes about his daily life.

Poetry Section

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Carol, I was touched by the thought of a lost loved one taken too unexpectedly from our lives ... a close friend too suddenly departed, and his loss felt oh so deeply, as expressed by Tim Levin.  This was the spirit I felt prompting me to write...

If There Is No Tomorrow

by Gary Jacobson ?© 1999

jacobs@atcnet.net

Read this poem to beautiful music and ambiance at" http://dreamerzz.tripod.com/tomorrow.html

I had a bad dream

The other night,

That woke me up,

Shook me up,

Gave me awful fright.

Suppose I died,

I cried...

Right here...

Right now...

Suddenly...

Tonight...

Without warning...

With no hope of coming morning.

Of the many things...

Procrastinated things...

Put off till tomorrow things...

Things left undone...

Without thought of what to do,

If for me the journey's

Through,

For if tomorrow

There is no rising sun...

There is but one thing too important,

To be left undone.

What of loved ones...

If the unthinkable comes?

What of those I hold dear,

I ask, trembling with fear?

The painful thought

Does my brain sear?

I want to tell them

How much I love them,

But when...

When they no longer

Can hear?

Would my beloved ever know,

If I wasn't there to show...

That they meant the world

To me.

There in my heart no other

Could ever be.

With all my heart,

I love my family.

I love you

My love...

My world...

My heart...

But do you know?

Have I done enough to show,

My love...

My heart...

My wife...

You are my very life.

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Reading the parable of Pamela Blaine, I thought to share this with you:

I'LL WALK WITH GOD,
CHRIST JESUS THE ATONING ONE

http://dreamerzz.tripod.com/God.html

by Gary Jacobson

jacobs@atcnet.net

Behold the king of kings,
Thine Shepherd, Saviour, Friend.
Following him exaltation brings,
For thru the Lord doth the good life wend.
His fabric of life
Will enlightenment send,
To free mankind from sorrow and strife.
With Christ by thy side
Thee wilt never walk alone.
With the Lord of Hosts abide,
For all wrongdoing The good Lord will atone,
Forever be thine spiritual guide...
His solace and comfort given,
Will lead thee back to heaven.
For all eternity,
From start to end,
The Good Lord will make the blind to see,
And the lame will walk mine friend.
He wilt grace with new sight,
A God's love wilt lend,
To His children hungering for Celestial light.
He will forthright send,
Divine relief from this worlds blight.
I long to leave this frail existence by,
Live in a place where the lame walk
And the deaf hear,
Live with the Lord in His Celestial home on high,
Where the Lord bestows bountiful blessings dear,
On brothers and sisters far and near.
There the souls of men never die,
For pure truth reasoned doth appear,
The simple message sigh,
Hearing, no longer ask why,
From the gospel of love never veer,
For the Lamb of God has no peer.
There is no need to run,
No need for mortal fear.
The good Lord sees all under the sun,
For sinners sheds a saddened tear.
He has promised to listen,
To faithful pleadings from mortal hearts.
Purest love in His loving eye doth glisten.
The Saviour of man imparts,
Purest love his great Word
Stills sinful darts,
Given to return beloved children preferred,
To the loving arms of the shepherd,
I'll walk with God
From this day on...
Our blessed God,
I'll follow
For He is the Saviour of this earth,
And Him alone will I follow
To sacred rebirth,
Beyond mortal travail and sorrow.
We are truly lambs of His fold.
To find the one that is lost,
Hungry and helpless and cold
Tempest tossed,
He will leave the 90 and nine,
To rescue a soul such as mine,
Rebellious as mine,
A soul sinful as mine,
Abandoned and forlorn,
Brought back to His loving arms sublime,
Free from spotted sin shorn
To His most holy presence divine.

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Writers Feedback

"A CLOSE FRIEND DIED" by Tim Levin is so well done and so true.  Life is short and we should all love, enjoy and appreciate the ones who make our life complete.

Barb D.

Tim Levin - "A Close Friend Dies" - True wisdom; nothing hits home as much as when someone close to us dies.  Nicely written.         Gabrielle Morgan.

Prayer Requests and Updates

Father God in heaven we come to you in prayers, asking that you reach down

your almighty hand down and touch Normie's daughter Cheryl, Father God we

ask that you make this goiter benign, its in the name of Jesus Christ the Holy

son that we pray! Amen Amen !!!

Walking In His Loving Light

Richard & Jackie Sims              Online Prayer Warriors!!!

To All;

Jackie's neice Christina Burke is 23 years old and will be 24 this coming month.

blurred and double vision, has been getting sick and tired out almost to the point

of black outs, and she also has a enlarged putitary gland, and has an appointment

to see a neurologist tomorrow Oct. 20 th.

Her husband Jermiah and her were just married the fourth of July, Please pray

that the neurologist will find nothing wrong, because God our father has healed her.

Thank you all for your prayers for Christina they are deeply appreciated!!!

God Bless You All And Be With You And Yours Always!!!

Walking In His Loving Light

Richard & Jackie Sims                          Online Prayer Warriors!!!

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