I had decided to exit out of life, until I heard Billy Braham on the radio, 
and prayed, and Jesus came in to my heart.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:12 AM
Subject: Billy Graham & Oprah Winfrey


>I guess that I just felt like throwing this into the mix to give the
> critics something else to chew on.
> Kathy
>
>
> Subject: BILLY GRAHAM & OPRAH  WINFREY - Billy Graham is always the 
> gentleman
>
>     Billy Graham and Oprah
>
>      Last year I watched Billy Graham being interviewed by Oprah
> Winfrey on television. Oprah told him that in her childhood home, she
> used to watch him
> preach on a little black and white TV while sitting on a linoleum floor.
>
>      She went on to the tell viewers that in his lifetime Billy has
> preached to twenty-million people around the world, not to mention
> the countless numbers
> who have heard him whenever his crusades are broadcast. When she
> asked if he got nervous before facing a crowd, Billy replied humbly,
> "No, I don't get
> nervous before crowds, but I did today before I was going to meet with 
> you."
>
>      Oprah's show is broadcast to twenty-million people every
> day.  She is comfortable with famous stars and celebrities but seemed
> in awe of Dr. Billy
> Graham.
>
>      When the interview ended, she told the audience, "You don't
> often See this on my show, but we're going to pray." Then she asked
> Billy to close in prayer.
> The camera panned the studio audience as they bowed their heads and
> closed their eyes just like in one of his crusades.
>
>      Oprah sang the first line from the song that is his hallmark
> "Just as I am, without a plea," misreading the line and singing
> off-key, but her voice
> was full of emotion and almost cracked.
>
>      When Billy stood up after the show, instead of hugging her
> guest, Oprah's usual custom, she went over and just nestled against
> him. Billy wrapped his
> arm around her and pulled her under his shoulder. She stood in his
> fatherly embrace with a look of sheer contentment..
>
>      I once read the book "Nestle, Don't Wrestle" by Corrie Ten
> Boom. The power of nestling was evident on the TV screen that day.
> Billy Graham was not
> the least bit condemning, distant, or hesitant to embrace a public
> personality who may not fit the evangelistic mold. His grace and
> courage are sometimes
> stunning.
>
>      In an interview with Hugh Downs, on the 20/20 program, the
> subject turned to homosexuality. Hugh looked directly at Billy and
> said, "If you had a homosexual
> child, would you love him?" Billy didn't miss a beat. He replied with
> sincerity and gentleness, "Why, I would love that one even more."
>
>      The title of Billy's autobiography, "Just As I Am," says it
> all. His life goes before him speaking as eloquently as that charming
> southern drawl for
> which he is known.
>
>      If, when I am eighty years old, my autobiography were to be
> titled "Just As I Am," I wonder how I would live now? Do I have the
> courage to be me? I'll
> never be a Billy Graham, the elegant man who draws people to the Lord
> through a simple one-point message, but I hope to be a person who is
> real and compassionate
> and who might draw people to nestle within God's embrace.
>
>      Do you make it a point to speak to a visitor or person who
> shows up alone at church, buy a hamburger for a homeless man, call
> your mother on Sunday
> afternoons, pick daisies with a little girl, or take a fatherless boy
> to a baseball game?
>
>      Did anyone ever tell you how beautiful you look when you're
> looking for what's beautiful in someone else?
>
>      Billy complimented Oprah when asked what he was most thankful
> for; he said, "Salvation given to us in Jesus Christ" then added,
> "and the way you have
> made people all over this country aware of the power of being grateful"
>
>      When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years
> to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
>
>      How unexpected. We would all live more comfortably with
> everybody around us if we would find the strength in being grateful
> and happily incompatible.
>
>      Let's take the things that set us apart, that make us
> different, that cause us to disagree, and make them an occasion to
> compliment each other and
> be thankful for each other. Let us be big enough to be smaller than
> our neighbor, spouse, friends, and strangers
>
>      Every day, may we Nestle, not Wrestle!
>