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{Straight From the Heart} *Color Together* 11/24/00 _________________________________________ If you enjoy this free daily email service, I encourage you to spread the word to family and friends, that we may bring inspiration into the lives of many! If you are not on the list and this has been passed along to you, join us by sending a blank email to: Thunder27@aol.com I appreciate any feedback or constructive criticism, so feel free to write me (Michael T. Powers) and let me know what you think! Just joined us and want to see all the past stories we have run? Visit our inspirational website at: Straight From the Heart http://www.storiesfrommyheart.com ___________________________________________________ We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Don't miss SFTH author Joan Wester Anderson on 20/20 on ABC at 10 pm EST tonight! We have another great story by one of our favorite authors: Bob Perks! ___________________________________________________ Color Together By Bob Perks Love is like a box of Crayola® crayons created by God. Before you are the blank pages that are drawn through a lifetime of commitment and caring. Although my generation had set the pace for coloring outside the lines, my advice to you both in marriage, always color within the lines. Don't look at them as barriers or roadblocks that limit, but guidelines to keep your love strong. You have seen the results of a generation without guidelines. Be creative. Use your own colors. Roses aren't always red and sunsets are never the same. Marriage too, should be like sharing a coloring book. Decide together what page to work on and then share. Perhaps one is better at coloring the sky and the other the grass and flowers. Never criticize the other's work.. If you both desire to use the same crayon, choose a different shade or wait until the other is finished. Compromise and patience is the backbone of a strong marriage. It is important at times for both of you to have your own page to color. A strong couple stands together but each casts their own shadow. In coloring, this is accomplished by first agreeing on two connected pages and sitting close together. Keep the crayons sharpened. The joy of love and marriage is in the details. At times when you are challenged by life or disagreements pull out the coloring book and sit at your kitchen table and draw. No words need to be spoken. The peace and joy that come from creating beauty will not permit the ugliness of anger to exist. Always be thankful to the God of all colors. He created you both in love and graciously brought you together. Finally. Always clean up afterwards. Marriage, like a crayon box, has a place for everything. You will discover that when one is missing the whole box seems incomplete. May your marriage be as colorful as you both have made our lives. Written as a gift to my son Keith upon the announcement of his engagement to Sarah at Woodstock '99 (Copyright Robert C. Perks 1999 BobPerks.com) Bob Perks bobperks@mindspring.com Send Bob an email and let him know what you thought of his story! ****************** Professional Speaker and Author, member National Speakers Assoc. and National Writers Assoc. Sign up for Bob's FREE weekly message, "I Believe in YOU!" visit http://www.BobPerks.com Checkout some of Bob's stories here: http://www.themestream.com/authors/3784.html ___________________________________________________ From: FarmKelCon (Carole and Bart) Dear Family and Friends: Bart and I would like you to pray for us as we attempt to minister to a 13 year old boy and his family. While working at a breakfast for the needy yesterday morning, we ran into one of "my boys", that I worked with in the drop out prevention program last year. He was there with his mother, sister, and some friends to receive breakfast, and a box of groceries for their Thanksgiving Day dinner. It was a very happy reunion for all of us, with lots of hugs! We invited his family to come to church, and while his mother declined (she has her own church), Darrell said he would like to come. He spent about an hour helping Bart load groceries into cars, and told Bart he wished he could go home with us. We gave him our phone number, and told him to call us if he wanted us to pick him up for church in the morning. We didn't hear from him yesterday, but at 7:15, this morning, the phone rang, and a very sleepy voice on the other end asked us what time we were picking him up. His mother and sister were camping with friends, and he had stayed home alone all night by himself so he could call us first thing in the morning. He did go to church with us, and had lunch with us. He says he wants to go again next Sunday, and is interested in the youth program. We are asking you to pray for us, for Darrell, and his family. Thank you! Carol and Bart ************ Prayers needed for Michael Novenche, and his parents. don't have a large forwarding list but I'm hoping that some of you do. Everyone with large mailing list, please forward what I am writing to you now to ask for your help. I do not really know how to start a prayer chain, but we need a miracle. Michael Novenche is a 2 year-old beautiful little boy in Clifton Park, New York, and the grandson of a very dear friend. A few months ago, he started throwing up and telling Mommy "boo boo in my head." He was brought to the doctors and tests were run on him, later that week he started losing feeling in the left side of his poor little body. They found a large tumor in his brain. He was brought to a hospital in Boston where doctors told his family the tumor was too big and it was too risky to operate on it. His aunt and uncle would not give up, they called Beth Israel, then E-mailed Dr. Epstein for him to look a Michael's films. Michael's uncle then drove the films to New York City himself for Dr. Epstein to look at. Dr. Epstein operated but couldn't remove the entire tumor and now he has to go through chemo to keep the tumor from growing and hitting the brain stem. We need all the prayers we can get for the chemo to kill the tumor entirely. As I write this, he started chemotherapy and we are hoping desperately that it works. We need all the prayers we can get. Please stop and say one prayer for this beautiful baby boy Michael when you read this letter. They need a miracle of God's healing so that their precious baby boy grows up. I am asking you to send this letter, or copies of it, to everybody you can think of that will pray for Michael. Please also take his name to your church and church groups and ask others to pray for his healing. Many thanks and may God bless each one of you who care enough to pray for a little boy's life. I am asking that each and every one of you please forward this on to as many you can. Just think if this was your little child going through this right now. We all know that God can heal this little angel. Please take the time to pray daily for this child. With Much Love, Deborah DHAngelGirl72@aol.com ___________________________________________________
_ "I thought of you first after my family sat down to watch the video we gave them. They loved it, to say the least! Within thirty seconds my mom was crying and my dad did too. They said it was the best Christmas gift we could have given them!! You did such a beautiful job! They were so surprised and so touched---they really, really, really loved it. Thanks for helping to make it so special to us all. My mom mentioned how the songs were perfect for the video too! Thanks again!" Let me make you a video from your pictures or home movies! Do you feel as if life has no meaning for you?
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