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Love is an essential ingredient for success. Without it, your life suffers in emptiness. With it, life vibrates warmth and satisfaction. Search for and generate love — because if you don't, you're not living—just breathing. Ida Fay Oglesby, writing in the P.E.O. Record (January 1983), tells the story of a little eight-year-old girl in a Pennsylvania orphanage who was shy, unattractive, and regarded as a problem. Two other asylums had her transferred, and now this director was seeking some pretext for getting rid of her. One day someone noticed the little girl was writing a letter. An ironclad rule of the institution was that any communication from a child had to be approved before it was mailed. The next day, the director and her assistant watched the child steal out of the dormitory and slip down to the main gate. Just inside the gate was an old tree with roots showing above the ground. They followed and watched as the child hid the letter in one of the crevices of the root. Carefully looking around, the little girl scurried back to the dormitory. The director pounced on the note and tore it open. Then, without speaking, she passed the note to her assistant. It read, "To anybody who finds this: I love you." Only when we experience love can we experience life to the fullest.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 346 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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