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{Straight From the Heart}   *Casa Alianza*  11/8/00
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Dear Michael,  this poem will introduce you to a wonderful man named Bruce Harris  who has spent his life devoted to the children of Latin American countries who have suffered the worst abuse that any human being can suffer. I became acquainted with him through a dear friend in British Columbia and since then have tried to do what I can to bring forth his light. If this is not a defininiton of Straight From The Heart I don't know what would be. This man has touched the my heart like no other. The suffering of these children has made me lose control of my emotions as I read about what is going on in these countries.
Love Francine

~ Casa Alianza ~

Dedicated to Bruce Harris

Another battered child found
Just lying in the street
Angel with a dirty face
Who needs a place to sleep
 
Those who care cannot be found
To give a life or home
These children of great poverty
The streets are where they roam
 
How can they seek out comfort
From any human being
When people who wear uniforms
Will torture as they scream
 
These children have a message
That we cannot accept
They huddle with the masses
Do things we don't expect
 
They struggle to survive in life
Who then will show the way
Can one man really matter
I found that man today
 
His life is on the line now
His fate forever sealed
He must protect his children
The government conceals
 
A tribute to his beauty
He seeks out what is bad
Offers to give special gifts
These children never had
 
An honor then to meet him
I humbly present
The man who feels the sorrow
Of children he has met
 
No man is an Island
No man stands alone
To me this man is everything
A heart that brings love home.

Francine J. Pucillo
FraniaP@aol.com

Send Francine an email and let her know what you thought of her poem!

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Francine Pucillo, lives in Bayville, Long Island, New York. A small town on the north shore of Long Island that boasts of the background of the beautiful Long Island Sound. She has been married for 12 years.

Check out Bruce Harris' page and learn more about the plight of these children:

Casa Alianza
http://www.casa-alianza.org/EN/about/bruce.shtml

Click below to go to Francine's site!
Check out Francine's Site
http://www.poetry-emotion.com/Casa_Alianza/Enter.html
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REQUEST:

From:  Thunder27@aol.com  (Michael)

We would like to ask for prayer for a good friend of ours named Shelly.  She was released from the hospital on the 20th due to a ruptured cyst,  however she is still in pain and needs for things to get back to normal so she can take care of her two little ones.  If she doesn't get better soon the doctor wants to do a Laporascopy to find out where the pain is coming from.  Keep her in your thoughts and prayers...
Thanks!
Michael
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Thought For The Day:

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-Arthur Koestler

Verse for the Day:

"Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."
John 8:32

Kid's Thought For The Day:

" It's more fun to color outside the lines."

Parent's Thought For The Day

"Sometimes being a parent is like being pecked to death by a duck.."

Coach's Thought For The Day

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
—A J Kitt

Deep Thought For The Day:

"Follow your dream!  Unless it's the one where you're at work in your
underwear during a fire drill."

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/_/  \    "For I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
\_\/\ \   Christ lives in me.  The life I live in the body I live for the Son
   \_\/   of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."  Galatians 2:20 

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