Uncle Paul Hello?" This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?" "No Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul." After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul." "Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now." Brief Pause. "Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway." "Okay Daddy, just a minute." A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone. "I did it Daddy." "And what happened honey?" he asked. "Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't moving at all!" "Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?" "He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water last week to clean it. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead." ***Long Pause*** ***Longer Pause*** ***Even Longer Pause*** Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool? Is this 486-5731?"

Current mood: thankful A man was sleeping one night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to Push against the rock with all his might. So, this the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sunup to sundown, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain. Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary mind: (He will do it every time) "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time and it hasn't moved." Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man. Satan said, "Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your time, giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough." That's what the weary man planned to do, but decided to make it a matter of Prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to the Lord. "Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in Your Service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?" The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to Me with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back shiny and brown; your hands are callused from constant pressure, your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. True, you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be Obedient and to push and to exercise your Faith and trust in My Wisdom. That you have done. Now I, my friend, will move the rock." At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God wants is just simple obedience and faith in Him. By all means, exercise the Faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves the Mountains. When everything seems to go wrong .................................................just P.U.S.H. When the job gets you down .................................................just P.U.S.H. When people don't do as you think they should .................................................just P.U.S.H. When your money is 'gone' & the bills are due .................................................just P.U.S.H. When people just don't understand you .................................................just P.U.S.H. P = Pray U = Until S = Something H = Happens Pass this on to all your loved ones and friends who may need it; they may get it just in time. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Subject: Three Bullets There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner. As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it. The rabbit ran away. Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel and missed it. The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree. As he went further, he saw a large wild "Tom" turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining. A voice spoke to him and said, "Pray first, aim high and stay focused." However, at the same time, he saw a deer which was a better kill. He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer. But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him, so he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake. Still, the voice said again to him, "I said 'Pray, Aim high and Stay focused." So, the man decided to listen to God's voice. He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree and shot the wild turkey. The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer. The handle fell off the gun and hit the snake in the head and killed it. And, when the gun had gone off, it knocked him into a pond. When he stood up to look around, he had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer and a turkey to eat for his family. The snake (Satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God. Moral of the story: Pray first before you do anything, Aim and shoot high in your goals, and stay focused on God. Never let others discourage you concerning your past. The past is exactly that. "the past." Live every day one day at a time and remember that only God knows our future and that He will not put you through any more than you can bear. Do not look to man for your blessings, but look to the doors that only He has prepared in advance for you in your favor. Wait, be still and patient: keep God first and everything else will follow. Pass this on in order that someone else might be blessed. FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER

My body has been paralyzed by an odd perfection. At first I was scared to take off my jacket and walk in. Afraid that it would be the last door I would ever walk in. I was young and walked away from a door that I probably should have been walking through. And since I did that... I suffered. God led me to different doors to catch me up on my maturity. He took me there not to love another but to learn what love really is, not to forget you but to forgive the ones who had hurt me because they were only a part of God's plan to teach me a lesson, not to accept anything from a man but to appreciate what you had given me because noone will treat me better than you, not to reminisce but to relive every moment that we shared together and not take it for granted like I did before. Doors have opened and closed in my face but when I think back there was only one door that opened and stayed open the whole time. What was funny was when I walked through that door it wasn't quite like the other doors. Other doors opened to a long dark hallway that frightened me from staying in. Some opened to a maze and I didn't know what direction to go. Then I stepped through a few doors and fell through a deep black hole that was very difficult to get out of. There was something perfect about when I walked through your door. People reading this won't understand unless they're already in this door right now. Some people say that they've already walked through this door but that is impossible because once you walk through this door you don't walk back out. Its a paralyzation of the body that keeps you disabled from walking out of what I would call perfection. Words can't describe what you feel. It's like I looked outside on Christmas day and saw a red rose growing in my front yard in the middle of the snow. It's like a white dove flying into a funeral on a dark and stormy day. Out of the ordinary but a definite sign from God. I walked through this door and closed it behind me when I answered yes to you on bended knee saying... "Will You Marry Me?"

Gone up to my crush and kissed them without warning Strutted my stuff in front of my crush Told off a teacher Gotten an autograph from my favorite celebrity Partied until dawn Gone to a movie alone Lied to get my own way Tried something new that scared me Drank so much I puked Wanted to be famous