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After heavy fighting, a soldier returned
to camp. The next day being Sunday,
the Chaplain
had set up a Church Service. The men were asked to take out
their Bibles or Prayer Books
to follow the scripture reading. The Chaplain
noticed one
soldier looking at a deck of cards.
After service, the Chaplain took the soldier to see the Major in
regards to his
scandalous behavior in church. The major told the
young soldier he would be
punished if he could not
explain himself. The young soldier told the Major that
during
the battle, he had neither a
Bible or a Prayer Book so he would use his
deck of cards and
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You see, Sir, when I look at
the “ACE”,
it tells me that there is ONE GOD and no other.
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When I see the “2”, it
reminds me that there are two parts in the Bible, the OLD
TESTAMENT and the NEW TESTAMENT.
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The “3”, tells me of the TRINITY
OF GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, and GOD THE HOLY
SPIRIT.
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The “4” reminds me of the FOUR GOSPELS:
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, and JOHN.
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When I see the “5”, it tells
me of the FIVE UNWISE
VIRGINS who were lost and that five were saved.
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mindful that GOD CREATED THE EARTH IN JUST SIX DAYS,
and GOD said that it was good.
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When I see the “7”, it
reminds me that GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY.
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As I look at the “8”, it
reminds me that GOD DESTROYED ALL HUMAN LIFE BY WATER EXCEPT
FOR EIGHT PEOPLE: Noah, his wife, their three sons,
and their three son’s wives.
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When I see the “9”, I think
of the NINE LEPERS that
GOD healed. There were 10 lepers in all, but only one
stopped to thank Him.
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The “10”, reminds me of the TEN
COMMANDMENTS
that GOD handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.
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The “JACK” is a reminder of
SATAN. One of God’s
first angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his
sly and wicked ways and is now the joker of eternal hell.
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When I look at the “QUEEN”, I
see THE CHURCH -
THE BRIDE OF JESUS. The “QUEEN of HEARTS”
represents MARY, THE VIRGIN MOTHER.
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As I look at the
last card, “THE KING”, it reminds
me that JESUS IS LORD OF LORDS and
KING OF KINGS!
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There are 365 spots on a deck of cards, and that is the number
of days in each
year.
There
are 52 cards to a deck and that is the number of weeks in a
year.
There are 12
picture cards
and that is the number of months in a year. There are
4
different suits in
a deck and that is the number of seasons in a
year. And so, the
young soldier then
said to the Major, “You
see, Sir, that my intentions were honorable.
My deck of cards
serves as my BIBLE, my PRAYER BOOK and my ALMANAC.”
A deck
of cards should
most importantly remind us that we need JESUS
365 days,
52 weeks, 12 months a
year, and that we should
always PRAY “4” others.
May you never look at a DECK OF CARDS the same way!
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And God Said "No"
I asked God to take away my pride,
And God said, “No.”
He said it was not for Him to take away,
but for me to give up.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole,
And God said, “No.”
He said her spirit is whole,
her body is only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience,
And God said, “No.”
He said that patience is a byproduct of tribulation,
it isn’t granted, it’s earned.
I asked God to give me happiness,
And God said, “No.”
He said He gives blessings,
happiness is up to me.
I asked God to spare me pain,
And God said, “No.”
He said, “suffering draws you apart from worldly cares
and brings you closer to Me.”
I asked God to make my spirit grow,
And God said, “No.”
He said I must grow on my own,
but He will prune me to make me fruitful.
I asked God to help me love others as much as He loves me.
And God said,
“Ah, finally, you have the idea.”
Claudia Minden Weisz
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A
Simple Path
The fruit of silence is
PRAYER.
The fruit of prayer is
FAITH.
The fruit of faith is
LOVE.
The fruit of love is
SERVICE.
The fruit of service is
PEACE.
~ Mother Teresa ~
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A Time For Everything
To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose
under the heaven.
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down,
and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn,
and a time to dance;
A time to cast stones,
and a time to gather stones,
A time to embrace, and a time to
refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep,
and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence,
and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war,
and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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A True Test
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army
uniform and
studied the
crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station.
He
looked for the girl
whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the
rose. His interest in her
had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking
a
book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the
words of the book, but
with the notes penciled in the margin.
The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful
soul and insightful
mind. In the front of the book,
he discovered the previous owner’s
name, Miss Hollis Maynell.
With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New
York City. He wrote
her
a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The
next day he was
shipped
overseas for service in World War II. During the next year the
two grew to
know each
other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a
fertile heart.
A romance was
budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She
felt that if he really
cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.
When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they
scheduled their first
meeting
for 7:00 p.m. at the Grand Central Station in New York. “You’ll
recognize
me,” she wrote,
“by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 p.m.
he
was in the station looking
for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d
never seen.
I’ll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened: A young woman was
coming toward
me, her
figure was long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from
her delicate
ears; her eyes
were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness,
and in
her pale green suit
she was like springtime come alive. I started toward her
entirely
forgetting to notice that
she was not wearing a rose. As I moved, a small, provocative
smile curved her lips.
“Going my way, sailor?” she murmured. Almost uncontrollably,
made one step closer
to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl. A woman well
past 40, she had
gray hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more
than plump, her thick ankle feet
thrust into low-heeled shoes.
The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
I felt as
though I was split in two,
so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so
deep was my
longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and
upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale, plump
face was gentle and sensible;
her gray eyes had a warm and
kindly twinkle.
I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue
leather copy of the book
that as
to identify me to her. This would not be love, but it would be
something precious,
something perhaps even better than love, a
friendship for which I had been and must
ever be grateful.
I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the
woman, even though while
I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.
“I’m Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I
am so glad you
could meet me; may I take you to dinner?”
The woman's face broadened into a
tolerant smile. “I don’t know
what this is about, son,”
she answered, “but the young
lady in the green suit who just
went by, she begged me to
wear this rose on my
coat. And she said if you were to ask me
out to dinner, I should tell
you that she
is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the
street. She said it was
some
kind of test!”
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