From: sherrys_inspirational+noreply@googlegroups.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:51:31 +0000
Subject: Digest for sherrys_inspirational@googlegroups.com - 1 Message
in 1 Topic
To: Digest Recipients <sherrys_inspirational+digest@googlegroups.com>
=============================================================================
Today's Topic Summary
=============================================================================
Group: sherrys_inspirational@googlegroups.com
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/topics
- Inspirational 04/16/10 Sticks [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/t/9705db58b10793a9
=============================================================================
Topic: Inspirational 04/16/10 Sticks
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/t/9705db58b10793a9
=============================================================================
---------- 1 of 1 ----------
From: "Sherry's Inspirational List" <sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com>
Date: Apr 16 12:16AM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/msg/3d5b9bebccabd48d
Sherry's Inspirational list
MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission is to be the channel, not the source, through
which we pray God's blessings may flow to others. Our ministry is not to
provide counseling, advice, or doctrinal interpretation. For this we refer
you to local spiritual leaders who may know and deal with your needs more
personally. It is our prayer that God may truly bless your day through the
inspiration we seek to channel your way. In Him, Sherry and Jim Heard
When forwarding / copying, please include the entire message.
Sticks
Author: Al Batt
It is an annual tradition.
We go to an aunt's farm and pick up sticks and rake her yard.
To be happy, a man needs something to do, something to love and something to
hope for. Picking up sticks fills the bill.
The cottonwood, box elder, oak and walnut trees drop a lot of sticks over a
year's time. Windstorms cause the lawn to be covered with sticks of various
sizes. It is hard and repetitive work -- bending and grabbing. It is a
lesson for life -- you have to be down in order to get up.
I stopped by the rhubarb plants. While they are still too small to harvest,
I drooled over the thoughts of future culinary delights.
I worked around the lilacs and could almost smell the flowers that would be
arriving in May.
I walked the yard, picking up sticks while I listening to the songs of the
birds. I carried the sticks to the three separate brush piles spaced
strategically, to save as many steps as possible. I tossed the sticks onto
the ever-growing piles. Occasionally, I would pause and watch the birds in
the trees.
The trees are survivors. They bend during storms. We could learn a lot
from them. When life's winds blow, we need to bend in order to keep from
breaking. The winds endeavor to take the trees a stick at a time, but the
trees usually endure. The trees are like families; the sticks like
individuals. We pick up the sticks and go on. We make do.
My family turned one of the brush piles into a fire for roasting hot dogs
and marshmallows. It was fun for the family to be able to get together
during a time when such gatherings are difficult to schedule. We talked
about family things. Such discussions are my family's way of picking up
sticks.
We talked about those loved ones who have gone on before us. I thought of
my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who have passed away. They were
the branches in my family. I think of them often - sometimes with sadness.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of the children of the family
playing baseball. Sounds that let me know that life goes on. Happiness is
more often remembered than experienced.
That's why I pick up sticks.
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven:" -Ecclesiastes 3:1
"Alles het sy bepaalde uur, en vir elke saak onder die hemel is daar 'n
tyd:" -Ecclesiastes 3:1
*******************************************************************
In His Service, <>< Sherry and Jim Heard
To subscribe please send an email to:
Sherrys_Inspirational-subscribe@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe please send an email to:
Sherrys_Inspirational-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
We invite you to visit our website at:
http://groups.google.com/group/Sherrys_Inspirational
<http://groups.google.com/group/Sherrys_Inspirational>
Our mailing address is:
Sherry's Inspirational List, 950 Eagles Landing Parkway #186, Stockbridge GA
30281, USA
Donations can be made online at www.paypal.com <http://www.paypal.com/> ;
address payments to
sherrysinspirationallist <mailto:sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com> @
hotmail.com.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Sherry's Inspirational List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Sherrys_Inspirational-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/Sherrys_Inspirational
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Sherry's Inspirational List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Sherrys_Inspirational-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/Sherrys_Inspirational
No comments:
Post a Comment