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Favorite
Email Stories
We all have received emails from friends that have included memorable
poems, humor, thoughts, and stories of faith, love, and grace. In this
section we will share some of these writings.
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READ SLOWLY... IT'S
PRETTY PROFOUND.
Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because
they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule,
didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their
routine.
I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut
back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.
How many women out there will eat at home because their husband
didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been
thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while
you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said , 'How about
going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I
can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had
known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain' And my
personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We
never did have lunch together.
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule
our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to
ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve
toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room
carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids
out of college.
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get
shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One
morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a
litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are
settled down a bit.'
When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new
ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her
for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair
of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream.
It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with
a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I
stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an
iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to...not
something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and
had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what
would you say? ;And why are you waiting?
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent
this to you.
Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened
to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's
erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you
run through each day on the fly? When you ask 'How are you?' Do
you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do
it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost
touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi'?
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened
gift....Thrown away.... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear
the music before the song is over.
'Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we
might as well dance!'
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Smiles
I dialed a number and got the following recording:
"I am not available right now, but
Thank you for caring enough to call.
I am making some changes in my life.
Please leave a message after the
Beep. If I do not return your call,
You are one of the changes."
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Aspire
to inspire before you expire.
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My wife and I had words,
But I didn't get to use mine.
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Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting.
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The
irony of life is that, by the time
You're old enough to know your way
Around, you're not going anywhere.
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God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer
for her first question.
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I was always taught to respect my elders,
But it keeps getting harder to find one.
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Every
morning is the dawn
of a new error.
~~~~~
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding,
severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and
with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is
a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
A Parable of
Immortality
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Reflection on the death
of a loved one.
Gone
From My Sight
by
Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an
object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she
hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to
mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There she
goes!"
Gone where? Gone from my sight ... that is all. She is just as large in
mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able
to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her
diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "there she goes!", there are other eyes
watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout,
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying.
May today there be peace
within you.
May you trust God that you are exactly where
you are meant to be.
"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when
our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
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