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Christs disciple
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We got that in e-mail a long time ago, too. It's kind of funny, but we got it through a Christian homeschool group newsletter, CCTX HomeEd (Cooke County, Texas Home Education), and now another homeschooler (or someone that helps them, anyway) put it on the net.
And yes, we did get money in the mail unexpectedly with no return address, right when we were wondering what we would do. It was like $100 or $1,000, RIGHT WHEN WE NEEDED IT. I figured some very kind and charitable person must have sent it to us, but then we got this e-mail a few months or years after, and I understood: it might have been someone convicted to help us, but God might have miraculously created it just for us (that's going to sound funny to unbelievers, but so what?).
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That is absolutely darling. God bless you Sis.
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A Servant of Christ,
Drew
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16: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..
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TEXASGRANDMA
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Thank you so much for sharing. That was beauitful!
betty
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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That was Absolutely Beautiful! Thank you for sharing that Sis!!!
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Psalm 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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helpforhomeschoolers
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Someone sent us this in a forward. I hope you enjoy it:
NOW THAT'S GOD
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We > had not seen rain in almost a month.
The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth.
It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields.
Lately this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn't see some rain soon...we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes.
I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn't walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort ... trying to be as still as possible.
Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. I went back to making sandwiches; thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed.
Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour: walking carefully to the woods, running back to the house.
Finally I couldn't take it any longer and I crept
> out of the house and followed him on his journey (being very careful not to be seen...as he was obviously doing important work and didn't need his Mommy checking up on him). He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to spill the water he held in them ... maybe two or three tablespoons were held in his tiny hands.
I sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns slapped his little face, but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much higher purpose. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site.
Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy
walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him...he didn't even move as Billy knelt down. And I saw a tiny fawn lying on the ground; obviously suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand. When the water was gone, Billy jumped to run back to the house and I hid behind a tree. I followed him back to the house to a spigot to which we had shut off the water.
Billy opened it all the way up and a small
> trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip, drip slowly fill up his makeshift "cup," as the sun beat down on his little back. And it came clear to me: The trouble he had gotten into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he had received about the importance of not wasting
water. The reason he didn't ask me to help
him. It took almost twenty minutes for the drops to fill his hands. When he stood up and began the trek back, I was there in front of him.
His little eyes just filled with tears. "I'm not
wasting," was all he said. As he began his walk, I joined him...with a small pot of water from the
kitchen. I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed away. It was his job. I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, other drops...and more drops...and more suddenly joined them. I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, himself, was weeping with pride.
Some will probably say that this was all just a huge coincidence. Those miracles don't really exist. That it was bound to rain sometime. And I can't argue with that... I'm not going to try. All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm...just like the actions of one little boy saved another.
I don't know if anyone will read this...but I had to send it out. To honor the memory of my beautiful Billy, who was taken from me much too soon... But not before showing me the true face of God, in a little, sunburned body.
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Have you ever been just sitting there and all of a sudden you feel like doing something nice for
someone you care for?
THAT'S GOD! He speaks to you through the Holy Spirit Have you ever been down and out and nobody seems to be around for you to Talk to?
THAT'S GOD! He wants you to speak to Him.
Have you ever been thinking about somebody that you haven't seen in a long time and then next thing you know you see them or receive a phone call from them?
THAT'S GOD!
There's no such thing as coincidence.
Have you ever received something wonderful that you didn't even ask for, like money in the mail, a debt that had mysteriously been cleared, or a coupon to a department store where you had just seen something you wanted, but couldn't afford.
> THAT'S GOD. . He knows the desires of your heart. .
Have you ever been in a situation and you had no
clue how it is going to get better, but now you look back on it?
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> THAT'S GOD! He passes us through tribulation to see a brighter day.
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