Got this in my email this morning, thought I would share--sm
Posted By: kps on 2006-08-01
In Reply to: I understand--sm - kps
Rev. John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes
about Tommy, a student in his Theology of Faith class.
>
> Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university
students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology
of Faith. That was the day I first saw Tommy.
>
>
> My eyes and my mind both blinked. He was combing his long flaxen
hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders. It was the first time I
had ever seen a boy with hair that long. I guess it was just coming into
fashion then.
>
> I know in my mind that it isn't what's on your head but what's in
it that counts; but on that day, I was unprepared and my emotions
flipped. I immediately filed Tommy under "S" for strange... very
strange.
>
> Tommy turned out to be the "atheist in residence" in my Theology
of Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about
the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God.
>
> We lived with each other in relative peace for one semester,
although I admit he was for me at times a serious pain in the back pew.
>
> When he came up at the end of the course to turn in his final
exam, he asked in a cynical tone, "Do you think I'll ever find God?"
>
> I decided instantly on a little shock therapy. "No," I said very
emphatically.
>
> "Why not?" he responded. "I thought that was the product you were
pushing."
>
> I let him get five steps from the classroom door and then called
out, "Tommy I don't think you'll ever find Him, but I am absolutely
certain that He will find you."
>
> He shrugged a little and left my class and my life.
>
> I felt slightly disappointed at the thought that he had missed my
clever line: "He will find you" At least I thought it was clever.
>
> Later, I heard that Tommy had graduated and I was duly grateful.
>
> Then a sad report came. I heard that Tommy had terminal cancer.
>
> Before I could search him out, he came to see me. When he walked
into my office, his body was very badly wasted and the long hair had all
fallen out as a result of chemotherapy. But his eyes were bright and his
voice was firm, for the first time, I believe.
>
> "Tommy, I've thought about you so often. I hear you are sick," I
blurted out.
>
> "Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It's a matter of
weeks."
>
> "Can you talk about it, Tom?" I asked.
>
> "Sure, what would you like to know?" he replied.
>
> "What's it like to be only twenty-four and dying?" I asked.
>
> "Well, it could be worse," he replied.
>
> "Like what?" I asked.
>
> "Well, like being fifty and having no values or ideals; like being
fifty and thinking that booze, seducing women, and making money are the
real biggies' in life," he replied.
>
> I began to look through my mental file cabinet under 'S' where I
had filed Tommy as strange. (It seems as though everybody I try to
reject by classification, God sends back into my life to educate me.)
>
> "But what I really came to see you about," Tom said, "is something
you said to me on the last day of class." (He remembered.) He continued,
"I asked you if you thought I would ever find God and you said 'No',
which surprised me. Then you said, 'But He will find you.' I thought
about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at
that time."
>
> (My clever line. He thought about that a lot.)
>
> "But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told me
that it was malignant, that's when I got serious about locating God.
>
> And when the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really
began banging bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven. But God
did not come out. In fact, nothing happened.
>
> "Did you ever try anything for a long time with great effort and
with no success? You get psychologically glutted, fed up with trying.
And then you quit.
>
> "Well, one day I woke up, and instead of throwing a few more
futile appeals over that high brick wall to a God who may be or may not
be there, I just quit. I decided that I didn't really care about God,
about an after life, or anything like that. I decided to spend what time
I had left doing something more profitable.
>
> "I thought about you and your class and I remembered something
else you had said: 'The essential sadness is to go through life without
loving. But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave
this world without ever telling those you loved that you had loved
them..'
>
> "So, I began with the hardest one, my Dad. He was reading the
newspaper when I approached him.
>
> "Dad."
>
> "Yes, what?" he asked without lowering the newspaper.
>
> "Dad, I would like to talk with you."
>
> "Well, talk."
>
> "I mean... it's really important."
>
> The newspaper came down three slow inches.
>
> "What is it?"
>
> "Dad, I love you. I just wanted you to know that."
>
> Tom smiled at me and said it with obvious satisfaction, as though
he felt a warm and secret joy flowing inside of him.
>
> "The newspaper fluttered to the floor. Then my father did two
things I could never remember him ever doing before. He cried and he
hugged me. We talked all night, even though he had to go to work the
next morning. It felt so good to be close to my father, to see his
tears, to feel his hug, to hear him say that he loved me.
>
> "It was easier with my mother and little brother. They cried with
me, too, and we hugged each other, and started saying real nice things
to each other. We shared the things we had been keeping secret for so
many years. I was only sorry about one thing, that I had waited so
long.. Here I was, just beginning to open up to all the people I had
actually been close to.
>
> "Then, one day I turned around and God was there. He didn't come
to me when I pleaded with Him. I guess I was like an animal trainer
holding out a hoop: 'C'mon, jump through. C'mon, I'll give You three
days, three weeks.'
>
> "Apparently God does things in His own way and at His own hour..
But the important thing is that He was there. He found me. You were
right. He found me even after I stopped looking for Him."
>
> "Tommy," I practically gasped, "I think you are saying something
very important and much more universal than you realize. To me, at
least, you are saying that the surest way to find God is not to make Him
a private possession, a problem solver, or an instant consolation in
time of need, but rather by opening to love. You know, the Apostle John
said that. He said: 'God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living
with God and God is living in him.'
>
> "Tom, could I ask you a favor? You know, when I had you in class
you were a real pain. But (laughingly) you can make it all up to me now.
Would you come into my present Theology of Faith course and tell them
what you have just told me? If I told them the same thing it wouldn't be
half as effective as if you were to tell it."
>
> "Oh, I was ready for you, but I don't know if I'm ready for your
class."
>
> "Tom, think about it. If and when you are ready, give me a call."
>
> In a few days, Tom called, said he was ready for the class, that
he wanted to do that for God and for me. So we scheduled a date.
However, he never made it.
>
> He had another appointment, far more important than the one with
me and my class. Of course, his life was not really ended by his death,
only changed He made the great step from faith into vision. He found a
life far more beautiful than the eye of man has ever seen or the ear of
man has ever heard or the mind of man has ever imagined.
>
> Before he died, we talked one last time. "I'm not going to make it
to your class," he said.
>
> "I know, Tom."
>
> "Will you tell them for me? Will you tell the whole world for me?"
>
> "I will, Tom. I'll tell them. I'll do my best."
>
> So, to all of you who have been kind enough to read this simple
story about God's love, thank you for listening. And to you, Tommy,
somewhere in the sunlit, verdant hills of heaven... I told them, Tommy,
as best I could.
>
> If this story means anything to you, please pass it on to a friend
or two. It is a true story and is not enhanced for publicity purposes.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Rev.. John Powell, Professor Loyola University in Chicago
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Becky, I found your email. I will send out another Crow's Gift tomorrow morning. It will be seale
I received this in an email and thought it was very
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Subject: Fw: Australians Say speak English
Please if you have not done so contact your government officials and let them know we want ENGLISH to stand as the language for America.
WOW!!! This is powerful. I agree with every word of the Prime
Minister's statements. Why can't we be like that? How come we don't
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Subject: Australians Say speak English
Canada and the U. S. Need A Leader Like This!
Prime Minister John Howard - Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday
to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to
head off potential terror attacks.
Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying
he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: '
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surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.'
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Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to
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Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly
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schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of
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or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other
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Outsourcing topic on Good Morning America this morning....
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share
share any work ??
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Share what?
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yes please share with us !
Just had to share
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Yes, please share
info about this.
Share What?
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had to share, doc just said...sm
The patient was taped to the operating room..... Wish I could see that!
Let me share with you....
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yes PLEASE SHARE
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Just have to share - sm
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had to share this one!!
"She wil be put in an Aircast splint and with crutches and treated with Motrin 800 every 8 hours as needed for pain with food."
often HR will share your ap
Like, I applied for coding and ended up being recruited as an MT (and they never DID fill the coding position as that department was undergoing "internal issues").
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just had to share this one - s/m
a local college has a job posted for an ESL instructor. Any takers? 
had to share
ESL dictates, "MRS. So-and-so is a 10-year-old female." Might be able to be a MRS. in your country but not in the USA.
Could you please share
the name of this company? It sounds an awful lot like what Medquist is doing to us. Thanks in advance.
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