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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/19/2007 4:06:55 PM
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Kerrlaw
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/23/2007 12:33:16 PM
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Smokymtnsanta
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This may have been in a previous but I have not seen it during my time on the Forums. I have been doing this for a couple of years now except I put the "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the front of the envelope. I use a rubber stamp with RED ink. Have a GREAT day.
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You may have heard in the news that the Post Office has been forced to take down small posters that say "IN GOD WE TRUST." The law, they say, is being violated.
Anyway, I heard proposed on a radio station show, that we should all write " IN GOD WE TRUST" on the back of all our mail...after all, that is our national motto, and it's on all the money we use to buy those stamps. I think it is a wonderful idea. I am going to have a stamp made so I can do it with all my mail, easily and without delaying the mail.
We must take back our nation from all the people who think that anything that offends them should be removed. Political Correctness is our enemy, not our friend.
If you like this idea, please pass it on. It has been reported that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the pledge of Allegiance.
Could it be that WE just need to take action and tell the 14% to sit down and shut up?
If you agree, speak up and pass this on, if not, you are part of the problem.
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/23/2007 5:04:02 PM
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Smokymtnsanta
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Murphy's Laws on Computers
- As soon as you delete a worthless file, you'll need it.
- Installing a new program will always mess up at least one
old one.
- You can't win them all, but you sure can lose them all.
- The likelihood of a hard disk crash is in direct
proportion to the value of the material that hasn't been
backed up.
- There are only two kinds of computer users: Those whose
hard disks have crashed, and those whose hard disks haven't
crashed - yet.
- Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it. If you
fiddle with something long enough, you'll break it.
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/23/2007 5:47:42 PM
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Kerrlaw
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Those are very funny "laws". And since they are laws, they must be right. Right?
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/30/2007 10:58:57 AM
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Smokymtnsanta
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AMAZING GRACE
This is absolutely beautiful.
One day, a man went to visit a church..
He got there early, parked his car, and got out.
Another car pulled up and the driver got out and said,"I always park there!
You took my place!" The visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat and sat down.
A young lady from the church approached him and stated,
"That's my seat! You took my place!"
The visitor was somewhat distressed by this rude welcome, but said nothing.
After Sunday School, the visitor went into the sanctuary and sat down.
Another member walked up to him and said,
"That's where I always sit! You took my place!"
The visitor was even more troubled by this treatment, but still He said nothing.
Later as the congregation was praying for Christ to dwell among them, the visitor stood up, and his appearance began to change.
Horrible scars became visible on his hands and on his sandaled feet.
Someone from the congregation noticed him and called out, "What happened to you?"
The visitor replied, as his hat became a crown of thorns, and a tear fell from his eye, "I took your place!"
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/30/2007 1:03:46 PM
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Those last two are amazing!!! As a veteran, I love the Pledge and what it stands for.
As for the visitor, unfortunately I believe Jesus would be a visitor in most houses of worship today and an awful lot of people in that building wouldn't recognize Him. And yes, I purposely said "houses of worship" because too many of the modern uses of "church" are a major issue for me.
When we "go to church" or "have church" we are allowed a degree of separation. I believe that this makes room for people to act one way "at church" and another way away from "church". When people realize that they are the CHURCH, it causes people to begin to realize that if they are the church then they must be Christ 24/7. Just one of my pet peeves.
Anyway, I really did enjoy those last two posts.
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/30/2007 1:50:52 PM
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danielmount
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Smokymtnsanta
AMAZING GRACE
This is absolutely beautiful.
One day, a man went to visit a church..
He got there early, parked his car, and got out.
Another car pulled up and the driver got out and said,"I always park there!
You took my place!" The visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat and sat down.
A young lady from the church approached him and stated,
"That's my seat! You took my place!"
The visitor was somewhat distressed by this rude welcome, but said nothing.
After Sunday School, the visitor went into the sanctuary and sat down.
Another member walked up to him and said,
"That's where I always sit! You took my place!"
The visitor was even more troubled by this treatment, but still He said nothing.
Later as the congregation was praying for Christ to dwell among them, the visitor stood up, and his appearance began to change.
Horrible scars became visible on his hands and on his sandaled feet.
Someone from the congregation noticed him and called out, "What happened to you?"
The visitor replied, as his hat became a crown of thorns, and a tear fell from his eye, "I took your place!"
Beautiful...or chilling.
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RE: Inspirations From Santa - 4/30/2007 7:36:19 PM
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One of my favorite stories....
The Smell of Rain!
"A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the
doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from
surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for
the latest news.
"That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only
24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency cesarean section to deliver
the couple's new daughter, Danae Lu Blessing. At 12 inches long and weighing
only one pound and nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature.
Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. 'I don't think she's
going to make it'" he said, as kindly as he could. '"There's only a 10-percent
chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim
chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one.'
"Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described
the devastating problems Danae would likely face if she survived. She would
never walk; she would never talk; she would probably be blind; she would
certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete
mental retardation; and on and on.
"'No! No!' was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old
son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become
a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.
Through the dark hours of morning as Danae held onto life by the thinnest
thread, Diana slipped in and out of drugged sleep, growing more and more
determined that their tiny daughter would live - and live to be a
healthy, happy young girl. But David, fully awake and listening to additional
dire details of their daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive,
much less healthy, knew he must confront his wife with the inevitable.
"David walked in and said that we needed to talk about making funeral
arrangements, Diana remembers 'I felt so bad for him because he was doing
everything, trying to include me in what was going on, but I just wouldn't
listen, I couldn't listen. I said, 'No, that is not going to happen, no way!
I don't care what the doctors say Danae is not going to die! One day she
will be just fine, and she will be coming home with us!'
"As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Danae clung to life hour
after hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her miniature
body could endure But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for
David and Diana.
"Because Danae's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw,' the
lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort - so they
couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the
strength of their love. All they could do, as Danae struggled alone beneath the
ultra-violet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would
stay close to their precious little girl.
There was never a moment when Danae suddenly grew stronger. But as the
weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of
strength there. "At last, when Danae turned two months old, her parents were able
to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later -
though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of
surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero
"Danae went home from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
Today, five years later, Danae is a petite but feisty young girl with glittering
gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She shows no signs, whatsoever,
of any mental or physical impairments. Simply, she is everything a little girl
can be and more - but that happy ending is far from the end of her story.
"One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving,
Texas, Danae was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local
ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always,
Danae was chattering non-stop with her mother and several other adults sitting
nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest,
Danae asked, 'Do you smell that?'
Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana
replied, 'Yes, it smells like rain.' Danae closed her eyes and again asked, 'Do
you smell that?' Once again, her mother replied, 'Yes, I think we're about
to get wet, it smells like rain.' Still caught in the moment, Danae shook
her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly
announced, 'No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on
His chest.'
Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Danae then happily hopped down to play with
the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed
what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least
in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two
months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God
was holding Danae on His chest - and it is His loving scent that she
remembers so well."
Oh how we all long to know that scent of our father. Hold Me Father........
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