Here's a great Tupperware offer! SALE
So last week I posted on Twitter & FaceBook that I thought I received a book for free in the mail. I did. I still don't know how! I was putting books onto the newest bookshelf and decided to check out this book I had received. Thought I would see if it would be a stand alone or a series. Well not only did I discover it would be a trilogy but I got a first edition, not even available for sale yet copy!! WHAT?! I know! The copyright is August 2010. The sale for this book doesn't start until next week! I'm still confused and wondering how this happened. I of course sent a quick email to the publisher thanking them and inquiring how I came to be so blessed. I'll post their answer when it comes. How crazy is this!!
Anywho, been extremely busy dog sitting. And was working tons before that. Next week I have to get prepared to leave for a Tupperware convention the following week. Earlier this evening I pulled a weird muscle in my foot and can hardly walk now!! And Jennie and I are doing Zumba......well Zumba is killing us is more likely. It will be worth it in the end right???
TaTa!
Shelly
"Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.” Luke 17:3
On the news there was a story about an man whose house had been newly painted. Within days someone had spray-painted graffiti all over it. Who would have done something like this in his neighborhood, he wondered? He was angry and rightly so. At first he thought it was racially motivated. Someone did not like him living in their neighborhood.
He asked around hoping to find out who had spoiled his house. He found that the graffiti was painted by an eleven-year-old boy. It was nothing more than a childhood prank. What would you do if you discovered your newly-painted house covered with graffiti?
Suppose the culprit was an eleven-year-old boy? Would the police be called? Would you at least want to talk to the boy's parents? Would there be a lawsuit--after all somebody would have to pay for the damage? What would you do in that situation?
The man who was wronged could have made a big issue out of it. Instead, he decided to get to know the boy better. He was unsure of what would happen but he was willing to try. Thus a black man and a young white boy soon became friends. Instead of taking the boy and his parents to court, he decided to teach the boy about computers.
The news showed the young boy sitting at the computer in the man's house he had earlier spray-painted. The reporter asked him about the graffiti. The boy told the reporter that he was sorry for what he had done. He did not know why he had done it. "Mr. Stephens and I are friends now," he told the reporter. "He has taught me about computers."
That's somewhat of a surprise ending, isn't it? You might have expected to see the young boy scrubbing the graffiti off the man's house or giving the house a new coat of paint. You might have expected his parents to ground him for a month for his offense. But you would have never expected to see him in the man's den working on his computer.
There is a lesson here….
Pastor Hersch
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