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                    TOO BUSY TO LOVE
A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company.  Then the father noted a change in his daughter.  If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going.  He grieved about it, but could not understand.
When his birthday came, she presented him
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Marsh on Mar 18, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the last movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy “The Return of the King,” there is a scene where a man is dying of his wounds, and his daughter runs to his side.  As she places her face over his, he fixes his eyes on her, and in the midst of his shock and pain, his bearded face breaks into a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    My wife and I waited 15 years for a child that never came by the natural way. However we were approached one day with a lead of a newborn not yet born. I remember standing in front of the judge on our day of adoption. He pointed his finger and asked of me, “Is anyone coercing you to adopt this
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 3, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We have many jokes about the subject of hell.
Consider the supposed story of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 23, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Near Haifa, rescue workers picked up the pieces of eight Israelis slaughtered on a bus. And at the Nablus camp, frightened Palestinian mothers comforted their children and watched their husbands and sons led away by Israeli soldiers in a mass arrest. Both sides grieved, as they have for the past 18
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Poem: Safely Home
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jun 20, 2009
                
                
                
                    The Secret Garden is a fascinating children’s classic. It is the story of a British child, Mary Lennox, who lived in India but is orphaned because of her parents’ death due to a cholera breakout. They send her to England to live with her only surviving relative, her uncle who is still mourning the
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 12, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE SERVANT AND THE CHILD
Think about the differences between a servant and a child:
The servant is accepted and appreciated on the basis of what he does, the child on the basis of who he is. 
The servant starts the day anxious and worried, wondering if his work will really please his master. 
                    
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                    THE PRIORITY OF GOD
Priorities are an issue in the church today, and David Wilkerson addresses this issue with the following thought from his most recent newslatter:
"A priority is the importance you place on something. And Christians who neglect prayer have perverted their priorities! Many
                    
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                    Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 6, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In New York City, there are eight million cats and eleven million dogs. New York City is basically just concrete and steel, so when your pet dies, you can’t just go out in the back yard and bury it. The city would dispose of your dead pet, but charged $50 
So one lady had this great thought: I can
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “Where Was the Key?”
A father and his little girl were staying in a hotel.  During the night the girl became very ill and without warning she died.  The father was heart-broken.  He had already lost his wife and now his precious little girl was gone.  Only two people followed the body to
                    
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                    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 1, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
Horatio Gates Spafford, a 43-year-old Chicago Businessman, suffered financial disaster in the great Chicago fire of 1871. He and his wife were still grieving over the death of their son shortly before the fire, and he realized they needed to get away for a vacation. Knowing
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	“‘Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.’  Oh! Wonderful, wonderful! That the one who has help to give is the one who says, Come hither! What love is this! There is love in the act of a man who is able to help and does help him who begs for help. But for
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 26, 2007
                
                
                
                    	“‘Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.’  Oh! Wonderful, wonderful! That the one who has help to give is the one who says, Come hither! What love is this! There is love in the act of a man who is able to help and does help him who begs for help. But for
                    
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