Sharon,
Thanks for sharing this.  I had tears in my eyes while reading it.

Virgie and lady Hoshi
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www.vunderwood.ktostemtech.com
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From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: Now that's God!


> My sister passed this on to me.  You will surely be blessed in reading 
> this!
>
> Sharon
>
>                    NOW THAT'S GOD
>
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>
> 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 up 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.
>
> *~THAT'S GOD ~*
> 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?
>
> THAT'S GOD! He passes us through tribulation to see a brighter day.
>
> NOW THAT'S GOD!!!!!!!
>
> Don't tell GOD how Big your storm is.
> Tell the storm how Big your GOD is!
>
> HAVE A BLESSED DAY
>
> GOD LOVES YOU
>
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