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11-17-2002, 08:05 PM
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The Preacher Man
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Food for Thought
Found this gem and thought I'd share with the fellers. I set it up on a site if anyone interested. Have a good week:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 dollar bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "who would like this $20 dollar bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first let me do this". He proceeded to crumple the bill up. He then asked, "who still wants it?" Still, the hands were up in the air. "Well," he continued, "what if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants this $20?" Still the hands went into the air. "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you." The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/sargeroe/crumpled.html
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11-17-2002, 08:55 PM
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Thanks Sarge. I needed that.
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11-17-2002, 09:04 PM
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Amen, Sarge.
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11-17-2002, 09:25 PM
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Fits like a shoe Sarge.
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11-17-2002, 09:33 PM
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Very nice, Sarge.
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11-17-2002, 10:02 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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I had heard that one. I tried it actually with my Luisa dear. With a 100 pesos bill.
Take care, Sarge.
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11-21-2002, 09:05 AM
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Nice,
thanks |
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11-21-2002, 09:12 AM
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After my uninspired night Directing lastnight i sure needed that.
Thanks Sarge. |
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11-21-2002, 10:23 AM
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So well stated, the problem is that especially in our country we have boiled our self worth down to what we have and what we do, and most of us do not even know who we really are apart from what we have or what we do.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. KK
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11-21-2002, 11:00 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Ktkendall made me remind that song by Styx: The Grand Illusion.
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11-22-2002, 12:41 AM
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Good words Sarge!
And as ktkendall told us, faith, hope, and love. I, along with about 374,000 others, practice Freindship, Love and Truth. Friendship toward our fellow man, Loving each person as out brother, and practicing truth, yet not hurting others unneccesarily. These, along with the ones ktkendall mentioned will take all a long way and we will all feel better at the end of the day. |
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11-22-2002, 02:17 AM
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Aaaaah, Sarge. That is a wonderful story. I think all of us, as we traverse this journey of life, struggle with the lies of unworthiness. Stories can be so powerful.
There is no shame There is no condemnation All things are new for those who truly love....
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11-23-2002, 12:33 AM
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True True
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11-25-2002, 04:44 AM
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Here's to you, Sarge.
 Thanks, I needed that. Not to be a whiner, but last tuesday I hurt my back moving my bed around. After the initial tests, my doctor told me it looked like i had ruptured one of my lower disks. He tried to tell me to take 2 weeks off from work, but when I told him that I needed to pay him, he's letting me go back on monday. So again, here's to you, sarge. I needed that.
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11-25-2002, 05:16 AM
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Sarge, thanks bud that was so true and obviously hit several homes among us.I hope things are doing well and we'll see ya next time
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11-25-2002, 07:14 AM
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Sarge, That is a timely message. Thanx for putting a different perspective on things. Ray
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