LOL!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "j.ireland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: OKAY to all of us
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for that wonderful vote of confidence and compliment. How very
kind
> of you and I mean that sincerely. It's just that the real beautiful part
I
> can't take credit for. It came out of the version of the Bible called The
> Message. Right from First Corinthians 13. So God gets that credit.
Smile.
> Now I hope after that, you still think I! rock! LOL!
>
> Vicki
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: OKAY to all of us
>
>
> > W'w'w'w'w'w'wo!
> >
> >
> > How'w'w'w'w'wly!
> >
> > Now that! was bee yootiful!
> >
> > Gosh, Vickey, have you ever thought and I actually am not kidding. i
mean
> > this actually literally!
> >
> > Have you thought of becoming a writer? You! sister, have got some
> > mayyyyyyyyjer! tallent.
> >
> >
> > honestly don't even think you were perfectly aware of what you typed.
> I've
> > never! heard a human talk like that. i can confidently! say without
> > hesitation, that! was God right there, telling you through his power,
what
> > to say... Wow!!! I sit here now breath taken... That! was in
credible!
> >
> > You! rock!
> >
> >
> > LOL!
> >
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "j.ireland" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:09 AM
> > Subject: OKAY to all of us
> >
> >
> > > None of us are being thrown off list unless we choose not to abide by
> the
> > > rules. I believe all of us know what those are.
> > >
> > > Just a reminder that this list was not designed to be a psychological
> > fixing
> > > place for anything or anybody. It was, and still is for support, good
> > > discussion and honest questions, etc., etc. I will probably post that
> > info
> > > just as soon as I can to refresh all our memories. While we may have
> > > members to the list, that we can not provide help to on list, we can
> > provide
> > > prayer. And maybe that's a big key in the forthcoming help that is
> > needed.
> > > Now, we disagree about things, and that's okay, normal and natural,
> > > sometimes healthy. However...
> > >
> > > The Way of Love
> > >
> > > If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love,
I'm
> > > nothing but
> > > the creaking of a rusty gate.
> > >
> > > If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and
making
> > > everything
> > > plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and
> it
> > > jumps,
> > > but I don't love, I'm nothing.
> > >
> > > If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be
> > burned
> > > as a
> > > martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I
say,
> > > what I believe,
> > > and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
> > >
> > > Love never gives up.
> > > Love cares more for others than for self.
> > > Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
> > > Love doesn't strut,
> > > Doesn't have a swelled head,
> > >
> > > Doesn't force itself on others,
> > > Isn't always "me first,"
> > > Doesn't fly off the handle,
> > > Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
> > >
> > > Doesn't revel when others grovel,
> > > Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
> > >
> > > Puts up with anything,
> > > Trusts God always,
> > > Always looks for the best,
> > > Never looks back,
> > > But keeps going to the end.
> > >
> > > Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in
> tongues
> > > will end;
> > > understanding will reach its limit.
> > >
> > > We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is
always
> > > incomplete.
> > >
> > > But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
> > >
> > > When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like
any
> > > infant.
> > > When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
> > >
> > > We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering
> through
> > a
> > > mist.
> > > But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines
> bright!
> > > We'll see
> > > it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him
directly
> > just
> > > as he
> > > knows us!
> > >
> > > But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do
> to
> > > lead us
> > > toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly,
love
> > > extravagantly.
> > > And the best of the three is love.
> > >
> > > 1 Cor. 13 from The Message.
> > >
> > >
> > > Vicki
> > > LIST MOM
> > >
> >
>
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