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Subject: Fwd: THIS WILL BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY!!!
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=09From:  Karen D McIlvoy                           03/29/2001 01:12 PM
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To: ragan.bond@bhlp.com
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Subject: Fwd: THIS WILL BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY!!!

Subject: Have Faith In Our Future Generation!!=20


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> > >> Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was=
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asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring chil=
d.=20
> > >> The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an=
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elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry,=
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the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, an=
d=20
just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor,=
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the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."=20
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> > >> Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a=
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family.=20
> > >> One little boy in the picture had a different color hair than the=20
other family members. One child suggested that he was adopted and a little=
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girl said, "I know all about adoptions because I was adopted."=01; "What do=
es it=20
mean to be adopted?" asked another child. "It means," said the girl, "that=
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you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy."=20
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> > >> A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As the docto=
r=20
looked down her ears with an otoscope, he asked, "Do you think I'll find Bi=
g=20
Bird in here?" The little girl stayed silent. Next, the doctor took a tongu=
e=20
depressor and looked down her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the=
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Cookie Monster down there?" Again, the little girl was silent.=20
> > >> Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he listened to he=
r=20
heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll hear barney in there?"=01; "Oh, no=
!"=20
the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.=01; Barney's on my underpan=
ts."=20
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> > >> As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local=
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Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. A=
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I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys=
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what the score was.=01; "We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a sm=
ile.=01;=20
"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."=20
"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should w=
e=20
be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."=20
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> > >> Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think abo=
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little Jamie Scott.=01; Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play.=
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His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feare=
d=20
he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her =
to=20
collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride a=
nd=20
excitement. "Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those=20
words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer.=
"=20
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> > >> A lesson in "heart" is my little 10 year old daughter, Sarah, who wa=
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born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She=
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came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in "field da=
y"=20
- that's where they have lots of races and other competitive events. Becaus=
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of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried to think of encouragement=20
for my Sarah, things I could say to her about not letting this get her down=
,=20
but before I could get a word out, she said "Daddy, I won two of the races!=
"=20
I couldn't believe it!=01; And then Sarah said, "I had an advantage.=20
"Ah. I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head=20
start...some kind of physical advantage. But again, before I could say=20
anything, she said, "Daddy, I didn't get a head start... My advantage=01; w=
as I=20
had to try harder!"=20
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> > >> An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December=
:A=20
little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the=20
roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.=
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> > >> A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you=
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looking so earnestly in that window?" "I was asking God to give me a pair o=
f=20
shoes," was the boy's reply. The lady took him by the hand and went into th=
e=20
store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. S=
he=20
then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly=20
brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the sto=
re=20
and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet,=20
and dried them with a towel.=01; By this time the clerk had returned=20
with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pai=
r=20
of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. Sh=
e=20
patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you feel=20
more comfortable now?"=01; As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught h=
er=20
by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered t=
he=20
question with these words:=01; "Are you God's Wife?"=20