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	From:  Karen D McIlvoy                           03/29/2001 01:12 PM
	

To: ragan.bond@bhlp.com
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Subject: Fwd: THIS WILL BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY!!!

Subject: Have Faith In Our Future Generation!! 


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