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The Story of the Week
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This Weekly Service we call "SOW Seeds"
On Wednesday or Thursday (Saturday at the very latest ;-), every week, we present a story. A story with some Spiritual "seeds" to SOW. Occasionally, there may be a duplicate story, but it is rare considering how many stories we have in our archives now. Where do we get these stories? From YOU. They may be Serious, Sad, Funny, Inspirational... the story will speak for itself. It can be a True story or a Fictional one... hopefully not Too long. ;-) It can be an Original Story, or if you wish, a story from a favorite book or from a friend. Each "SOW Seeds" will be given Full Credit to it's Author and Source (if at all possible), as well as to it's contributor. So when you send us a Story, PLEASE make sure it includes the "credits".
["Author Unknown" is acceptable only if the Author is
TRULY unknown.]
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This Week's "SOW Seeds" Service
Somehow last weeks Story didn't make it to the web-site,
though it was Indeed sent to all of our Subscribers.
So This week, you get Two stories... S.O.W. #598 by Steve Goodier from last week,
followed by this week's S.O.W. #599 by Bob Perks
7-21-2010 Church Within SOW Seeds Service - Story #598
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Welcome
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Greetings my Dearest Sisters and Brothers, and welcome again to Church Within's Story of the Week ["SOW Seeds”].
This week's SOW Seeds Story, contributed by: Patije
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Story of the Week
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Another Word For Love
(By:Steve Goodier)
I knew a woman who always found an excuse to love.
I met her working at the most difficult job of my life - as a helper
in an after-school daycare center. I was completely unprepared for the
work; I had no training and my temperament seemed to be particularly
unsuited to the position.
I reminded myself that I was hired to watch the children, play with
them and lead arts and crafts - not fix all of their problems, of
which there were many. And my only help was Mrs. Tucker, a 73-year-old
retired social worker who worked with me. All that stood between the
kids and disaster was me and a 73-year-old woman. And I wasn't that
sturdy a defense! But I soon learned that Mrs. Tucker was a master
with these children.
"Some children just need more love," she always said. A case in point
was Timmy. Timmy received special help at school because of his
emotional problems. He was developmentally delayed. He often fought
with other children and was a compulsive hair-puller. I could never
get close to Timmy - he did not trust anyone. Anyone, that is, except
Mrs. Tucker. He responded her. He genuinely loved her because, I came
to believe, she loved him.
One day a fight broke out between Timmy and one of the other children.
After separating them, Mrs. Tucker directed Timmy to sit in a chair.
He screamed, "I HATE YOU, Mrs. Tucker! You're a mean, old lady! I hate
you!"
"I know you hate me right now, Timmy," she said firmly, "but I'm sure
not going to let you pull the other children's hair."
After a while Timmy had calmed down and Mrs. Tucker called him over.
His cheeks were still dirty and bore dried tear streaks. I could not
hear their conversation, but I saw Timmy put his arms around her neck.
When I walked by I heard him say, "I'm sorry I called you a mean old
lady, Mrs. Tucker." I knew he meant it.
A little later Mrs. Tucker said to me, "Timmy just needs more love
than other children."
On another occasion I heard Timmy's mother say, "You work magic with
him, Mrs. Tucker. He doesn't respond to anybody like he does to you."
Maybe so, but sometimes "magic" is just another word for "love."
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Pastor's Quote of the Week
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You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you. Human love may indeed be reciprocal, but divine love is outgoing in all its satisfaction-seeking. The less of love in any creature's nature, the greater the love need, and the more does divine love seek to satisfy such need. Love is never self-seeking, and it cannot be self-bestowed. Divine love cannot be self-contained; it must be unselfishly bestowed.
(From: The Urantia Book – Paper-156 Section-5 )
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
Help me to recognize Your Love whenever I need it and to Be it when Others need it.
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Eternal Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
7-28-2010 Church Within SOW Seeds Service - Story #599
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Welcome
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Greetings my Dearest Sisters and Brothers, and welcome again to Church Within's Story of the Week ["SOW Seeds”].
This week's SOW Seeds Story, contributed by: Bob Perks
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Story of the Week
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"What I don't know"
(© 2010 By Bob Perks
I have spent a lifetime doing what I know. At the same time my curiosity has guided me through quiet fields of waist deep grass, long walks along big city urban canyons, unending shorelines and on my knees digging in the dirt of my garden.
I will brag a bit here telling you that I have missed very little. If it passed in front of me, I noticed it. Or at least I thought so.
It wasn't until recently that I realized that it's not all about what you know, what you've done or what you you've seen.
Today I write to tell you about what I don't know.
I don't know who. Someone will say something, write something or simply walk in and out of my life. Everyone changes who I am forever by leaving a bit of who they are with me.
I don't know what. Something will happen. It will be positive or negative but the choice is mine. I will choose how I see it and what I want from it.
I don't know where. Right now I am here writing this for you. I don't know where this effort will take me. I don't know where life is taking me either. It's not that I don't have plans, it's just that my response to life is always changing. Like life itself. Like owning a map but keeping it in your pocket until you really need guidance.
I don't know when. I am going to die. I don't know when, but I know I will, I also know I'm that I'm alive. In this case I must choose to go with what I know. I know I have this very moment so I must live it fully. I must choose to get from it all that life has to offer. I want to live until I die!
I don't know why. This is a big one. Many things fall into this category. Of all the things I don't know, "why" is the one that has often times caused pain, sleep loss, medical problems, fear, and weeping. It has also brought me joy and peace; when someone was kind to me, when someone prayed for me, when someone helped me financially, loved me, held me, hugged me, lifted me up when I was down, gave me a gift or simply listened to me when I needed someone to just listen.
I don't know how. There have been many times when I wondered how I was going to get through some event in my life. But I did. There have been times when I didn't know how to laugh, love, cry, get up, stop, go, begin, quit, or how things were going to turn out.
Out of all the things I don't know, "How" gives me the least concern and the greatest comfort. After alI this time, I realized that the answer to all the things I don't know comes from "How." It's in the word itself.
I may not know "How" but I do know "Who."
God is the answer to all the questions I have and proof that "it's not about what you know, but Who you know."
Knowing that lead me to write the following for my greeting card/wall print collection:
"What I can understand, I can handle.
What I can't understand, I give to God!"(c)
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Pastor's Quote of the Week
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The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father.
(From: The Urantia Book – Paper-1 Section-1 )
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The Prayer
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Dear God,
The more I know, the more I realize how much I truly do not yet know. The more sure I think I am, the more suspect I should be of my surety. I will do all that I am able, my Father, but still I give it All to You!
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Eternal Love to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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