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Topic: Inspirational 07/01/10 With This Letter, I Fly My Love To You
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From: "Sherry's Inspirational List" <sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com>
Date: Jun 30 10:51PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/msg/987bc2ba14c34cdd
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
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With This Letter, I Fly My Love To You
From: THE STORY OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Dear Patrick,
I was then an only child who had everything I could ever want. But even a
pretty, spoiled and rich kid could get lonely once in a while so when Mom
told me that she was pregnant, I was ecstatic. I imagined how wonderful you
would be and how we'd always be together and how much you would look like
me.
So, when you were born, I looked at your tiny hands and I showed you proudly
to my friends. They would touch you and sometimes pinch you, but you never
reacted. When you were five months old, some things began to bother Mom. You
seemed so unmoving and numb, and your cry sounded odd, almost like a
kitten's.
So, we brought you to many doctors. The thirteenth doctor who looked at you
quietly said you have the "cry du chat" (kree-do-sha) syndrome (cry of the
cat in French). When I asked what that meant, he looked at me with pity and
softly said, "Your brother will never walk or talk." The doctor told us that
it is a condition that afflicts one in 50,000 babies, rendering victims
retarded. Mom was shocked and I was furious. I thought it was unfair.
When we went home, Mom took you in her arms and cried. I looked at you and
realized that word will get around that you're not normal. So to hold on to
my popularity, I did the unthinkable? I disowned you. Mom and Dad didn't
know but I steeled myself not to love you as you grew.
Mom and Dad showered you with love and attention and that made me bitter.
And as the years passed, that bitterness turned to anger, and then hate.
Mom never gave up on you. She knew she had to do it for your sake. Every
time she put your toys down, you would roll instead of crawl. I watched her
heart break every time she took away your toys and strapped your tummy with
foam so you couldn't roll. You'd struggle and you'd cry in that pitiful way,
the cry of the kitten. But she still didn't give up.
And then one day, you defied what all your doctors said: you crawled. When
Mom saw this, she knew that you would eventually walk. So when you were
still crawling at age four, she'd put you on the grass with only your
diapers on knowing that you hate the feel of the grass on your skin. Then
she'd leave you there.
I would sometimes watch from the window and smile at your discomfort. You
would crawl to the sidewalk and Mom would put you back. Again and again, Mom
repeated this on the lawn. Until one day, Mom saw you pull yourself up and
toddle off the grass as fast as your little legs could carry you.
Laughing and crying, she shouted for Dad and I to come. Dad hugged you
crying openly. I watched from my bedroom window this heartbreaking scene.
Over the years, Mom taught you to speak, read and write. From then on, I
would sometimes see you walk outside, smell the flowers, marvel at the
birds, or just smile at no one.
I began to see the beauty of the world around me, the simplicity of life and
the wonders to this world through your eyes. It was then that I realized
that you were my brother and no matter how much I tried to hate you, I
couldn't because I had grown to love you.
During the next few days, we again became acquainted with each other. I
would buy you toys and give all the love that a sister could ever give to
her brother. And you would reward me by smiling and hugging me. But I guess,
you were never really meant for us.
On your tenth birthday, you felt severe headaches. The doctor's diagnosis:
leukemia. Mom gasped and Dad held her, while I fought hard to keep my tears
from falling. At that moment, I loved you all the more. I couldn't even bear
to leave your side.
Then the doctors told us that your only hope was to have a bone marrow
transplant. You became the subject of a nationwide donor search. When at
last we found the right match, you were too sick, and the doctor reluctantly
ruled out the operations.
Since then, you underwent chemotherapy and radiation. Even at the end, you
continued to pursue life. Just a month before you died, you made me draw up
a list of things you wanted to do when you got out of the hospital.
Two days after the list was completed, you asked the doctors to send you
home. There, we ate ice-cream and cake, ran across the grass, flew kites,
went fishing, took pictures of one another and let the balloons fly.
I remember the last conversation we had. You said that if you die, and if I
need help, I could send you a note to heaven by tying the note on the string
of a balloon and letting it fly. When you said this, I started crying. Then
you hugged me. Then again, for the last time, you got sick. That last night,
you asked for water, a back rub, a cuddle. Finally, you went into seizure
with tears streaming down your face. Later, at the hospital, you struggled
to talk but the words wouldn't come. I know what you wanted to say.
"I hear you." I whispered. And for the last time, I said, "I'll always love
you and I will never forget you. Don't be afraid. You'll soon be with God in
heaven." Then, with my tears flowing freely, I watched the bravest boy I had
ever known finally stop breathing.
Dad, Mom and I cried until it felt as if there were no more tears left.
Patrick was finally gone, leaving us behind. From then on, you were my
source of inspiration. You showed me how to love life and live life to the
fullest. With your simplicity and honesty, you showed me a world full of
love and caring, and you made me realize that the most important thing in
this life is to continue loving without asking why or how and without
setting any limit.
With this letter and this balloon, I fly my love to you. Thank you my little
brother for all these.
Sarah
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"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the
brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." -1 John 3:14
"Ons weet dat ons oorgegaan het uit die dood in die lewe, omdat ons die
broeders liefhet. Hy wat sy broeder nie liefhet nie, bly in die dood." -1
John 3:14
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Topic: Inspirational 06/30/10 Bless It or Block It
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/t/99ce92834ba1562
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From: "Sherry's Inspirational List" <sherrysinspirationallist@hotmail.com>
Date: Jun 29 11:23PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/sherrys_inspirational/msg/5a2d6565a269d82
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
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Bless It or Block It
(19 June 2002)
"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he
asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, though you are evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father
in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!" -Matthew 7:9 -11
I have a very wise and wonderfully gifted, very spiritual friend. During a
time when I was considering a change in my life, she taught me a prayer.
Just like its author, it is very simple: "Bless it or block it."
I used to believe that if the answer to my prayer - whether the request was
acquiring a new job, a new romance, a new home, or keeping what I already
had - was not a resounding "Yes, you've got it," that I was somehow being
denied what was good for me.
This simple prayer reminds me that there are other possibilities. Our pastor
Dr. Mann teaches us that there is no such thing as a problem without a gift
for you in its hands. Sometimes we are denied the things that we want
because they are not what is for our highest good. When I can really ask God
to either bless the thing that I want or to block it for whatever reason He
deems is in my best interest, I know that I am blessed, no matter the
result.
An example of this prayer at work is when this very same friend who taught
me this prayer wanted to purchase her dream home. However, one obstacle
after another began to present itself, and she was unable to purchase the
home. At first disappointed but still undaunted in her search for a dream
home, she continued looking. Only after she found another home was it
revealed that the first one actually had huge foundation problems and would
have been a very poor investment.
Trust that what you ask God to bless, He will and is.
C2001 Riverbend Church, Austin TX
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that
he may abide with you for ever;" - John 14:16
"En Ek sal die Vader bid, en Hy sal julle 'n ander Trooster gee om by julle
te bly tot in ewigheid:" - John 14:16
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