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STREETS OF DEATH

2011-02-15T13:45:00.001-08:00

ALASKAN ADVERSARY

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2011-02-11T15:55:00.001-08:00

MARIO

2011-02-11T15:48:00.001-08:00

DANIEL'S GLOVES

2011-02-02T13:23:00.000-08:00

I sat, with two friends, in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town-square. The food and the company were both especially good that day.

As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared to be carrying all his worldly goods on his back. He was carrying, a well-worn sign that read, 'I will work for food.' My heart sank.

I brought him to the attention of my friends and noticed that others around us had stopped eating to focus on him. Heads moved in a mixture of sadness and disbelief.

We continued with our meal, but his image lingered in my mind. We finished our meal and went our separate ways. I had errands to do and quickly set out to accomplish them. I glanced toward the town square, looking somewhat halfheartedly for the strange visitor. I was fearful, knowing that seeing him again would call some response. I drove through town and saw nothing of him. I made some purchases at a store and got back in my car.

Deep within me, the Spirit of God kept speaking to me: 'Don't go back to the office until you've at least driven once more around the square.'

Then with some hesitancy, I headed back into town. As I turned the square's third corner, I saw him. He was standing on the steps of the store front church, going through his sack.

I stopped and looked; feeling both compelled to speak to him, yet wanting to drive on. The empty parking space on the corner seemed to be a sign from God: an invitation to park. I pulled in, got out and approached the town's newest visitor.

'Looking for the pastor?' I asked.

'Not really,' he replied, 'just resting.'

'Have you eaten today?'

'Oh, I ate something early this morning.'

'Would you like to have lunch with me?'

'Do you have some work I could do for you?'

'No work,' I replied 'I commute here to work from the city, but I would like to take you to lunch...'

'Sure,' he replied with a smile.

As he began to gather his things, I asked some surface questions. Where you headed?'

' St. Louis '

'Where you from?'

'Oh, all over; mostly Florida ...'

'How long you been walking?'

'Fourteen years,' came the reply.

I knew I had met someone unusual. We sat across from each other in the same restaurant I had left earlier. His face was weathered slightly beyond his 38 years. His eyes were dark yet clear, and he spoke with an eloquence and articulation that was startling He removed his jacket to reveal a bright red T-shirt that said, 'Jesus is The Never Ending Story.'

Then Daniel's story began to unfold. He had seen rough times early in life. He'd made some wrong choices and reaped the consequences. Fourteen years earlier, while backpacking across the country, he had stopped on the beach in Daytona... He tried to hire on with some men who were putting up a large tent and some equipment. A concert, he thought.

He was hired, but the tent would not house a concert but revival services, and in those services he saw life more clearly. He gave his life over to God

'Nothing's been the same since,' he said, 'I felt the Lord telling me to keep walking, and so I did, some 14 years now.'

'Ever think of stopping?' I asked.

'Oh, once in a while, when it seems to get the best of me But God has given me this calling. I give out Bibles That's what's in my sack. I work to buy food and Bibles, and I give them out when His Spirit leads.'

I sat amazed. My homeless friend was not homeless. He was on a mission and lived this way by choice. The question burned inside for a moment and then I asked: 'What's it like?'

'What?'

'To walk into a town carrying all your things on your back and to show your sign?'

'Oh, it was humiliating at first. People would stare and make comments. Once someone tossed a piece of half-eaten bread and made a gesture that certainly didn't make me feel welcome. But then it became humbling to realize that God was using me to touch lives and change people's concepts of other folks like me.'

My concept was changing, too. We finished our dessert and gathered his things. Just outside the door, he paused He turned to me and said, 'Come Ye blessed of my Father and inherit the kingdom I've prepared for you. For when I was hungry you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me drink, a stranger and you took me in.'

I felt as if we were on holy ground. 'Could you use another Bible?' I asked.

He said he preferred a certain translation. It traveled well and was not too heavy. It was also his personal favorite.. 'I've read through it 14 times,' he said.

'I'm not sure we've got one of those, but let's stop by our church and see' I was able to find my new friend a Bible that would do well, and he seemed very grateful.

'Where are you headed from here?' I asked.

'Well, I found this little map on the back of this amusement park coupon.'

'Are you hoping to hire on there for a while?'

'No, I just figure I should go there. I figure someone under that star right there needs a Bible, so that's where I'm going next.'

He smiled, and the warmth of his spirit radiated the sincerity of his mission. I drove him back to the town-square where we'd met two hours earlier, and as we drove, it started raining. We parked and unloaded his things.

'Would you sign my autograph book?' he asked... 'I like to keep messages from folks I meet.'

I wrote in his little book that his commitment to his calling had touched my life. I encouraged him to stay strong. And I left him with a verse of scripture from Jeremiah, 'I know the plans I have for you, declared the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you; Plans to give you a future and a hope.'

'Thanks, man,' he said. 'I know we just met and we're really just strangers, but I love you.'

'I know,' I said, 'I love you, too.' 'The Lord is good!'

'Yes, He is. How long has it been since someone hugged you?' I asked.

A long time,' he replied

And so on the busy street corner in the drizzling rain, my new friend and I embraced, and I felt deep inside that I had been changed.. He put his things on his back, smiled his winning smile and said, 'See you in the New Jerusalem.'

'I'll be there!' was my reply.

He began his journey again. He headed away with his sign dangling from his bedroll and pack of Bibles. He stopped, turned and said, 'When you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?'

'You bet,' I shouted back, 'God bless.'

'God bless.' And that was the last I saw of him.

Late that evening as I left my office, the wind blew strong. The cold front had settled hard upon the town. I bundled up and hurried to my car. As I sat back and reached for the emergency brake, I saw them... a pair of well-worn brown work gloves neatly laid over the length of the handle. I picked them up and thought of my friend and wondered if his hands would stay warm that night without them.

Then I remembered his words: 'If you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?'

Today his gloves lie on my desk in my office. They help me to see the world and its people in a new way, and they help me remember those two hours with my unique friend and to pray for his ministry. 'See you in the New Jerusalem,' he said. Yes, Daniel, I know I will...

'I shall pass this way but once. Therefore, any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.'

This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached. Prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another. God bless and have a nice day!

'Father, I ask you to bless my friends, relatives and e-mail buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask you to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through your grace, In Jesus' precious Name Amen.' London market welcomes Zenith Bank: one of Nigeria's largest and most successful indigenous banking groups has now established a London office following ... African Review of Business and Technology

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THE OTHER END OF LIFE

2011-01-28T09:34:00.000-08:00

Life to some people is a bed of roses, life to some people is hard and life to some people is not worth living, but to me life is what you make out of it. Life gives back to every individual one way or the other. What I mean by this is that the amount of efforts an individual puts into life, that is how much that individual will get from life.

Life in general helps to shape an individual into who he or she is going to be in future depending on how that individual lives his or her life. In life, we meet different kinds of people who either contribute negatively or positively to an individual's life. By this, I mean the people, friends, colleagues, or family an individual has can either make or mar him or her. In life, an individual can choose to be live a happy and satisfying life or also choose to live a boring and isolated life. The point I am trying to make is that life is about making choices. We human beings have to make one decision or the other and upon making the decision we can also choose to act on the decision or not.

Life most of the time is not fair and it does not usually go the way we expect it to but that is why as human beings we are given the possibility to shape how we want our lives to be in the future and what we make out of it becomes a reality.

A REASON FOR A CHANGE IN SOCIETY

2010-05-04T16:02:00.000-07:00

The society is in dear need for a change because the way things are going the world is heading for a minor setback which could cause misunderstanding amongst nations. So the society needs to collaborate on how to rectify certain issues concerning the world global issues.

First of all the world needs to remain at a certain level of understanding which enables people, individuals,organization and the government.

The society needs to uphold certain values and just attitude and character towards other people in the society and this would lead to a terror free society.

TREAD CAREFULLY

2010-04-27T07:59:00.000-07:00

Life is a very long journey that requires a lot of consideration with different phases of an individuals particular life. People out there should understand the benefits of not living life lavishly because you tend to see and understand things that you are meant to know but if a person is ignorant about certain views and perspective of life, business, relationships and social life that person would live life in an uncertain manner and not be of good understanding of other peoples feelings, emotions and the things they are going through.

TREAD CAREFULLY simply means one should look before they leap. it also means that an individual should be careful of the information, manner and other things they give to people. Individuals should learn how to mind their business and stay to things that concern them because poking around and gossiping could really affect the individual's composure and respect that people had for the person.

LIFE

2010-01-14T03:33:00.000-08:00

It is all but a long strife
I have done nothing but live life
like I am stabbing myself with a knife
all i hear nowadays is about swagger
its also like i have a dagger
stock to my back but it doesn't matter
because i have an answer
and i have avoided cancer
this is what i feel life is like
take things like a spike

A POEM FOR JESUS CHRIST

2009-12-10T12:24:00.000-08:00

He has saved me countless number of times
He is always there even when the sun shines
He is my anchor and my savoiur
He adds just the right favour
For me He is the greatest
and the richest
He is my Lord and my Shepherd
I shall not want
Even if my assets are burnt
I know He will restore me
Because He knows what I want to be
and also what I want to see
because He is always there for me.

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

2009-09-19T11:42:00.000-07:00

Life can be described as human activity or particular aspect of someone's life. Life can also be described as a period which human beings live through whether positively or negatively. The Journey of life is characterised with different kinds of challenges, situations, and conditions so the way one lives his or her life should be on something positive because in life one cannot avoid hard times and trying times.

The period of hard times occurs when life wants to put that person to the test and see how tough that person is because in life it is the tough ones that survive the tough times. So what I am trying to say is that life would reward according to the way one lives life which means it is what you put into life that life would give back to you.

LIFE OF A SICKLER

2009-09-14T08:12:00.000-07:00

A Sickler is someone who suffers from sickle cell anaemia. sickle cell is passed from parent to children considering the genotype of the child's parents. If the parents have AS as their genotype then there one of their offsprings is likely to be a sickle cell carrier.

2009-09-12T22:05:00.000-07:00

It's no sin spending hours to look good.... The motive behind spending hours looking good, matters.

2009-09-10T18:46:00.000-07:00

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno

LOVE WRITINGS

Just thinking of you brings a smile on my face. Because you are always in my thought, you are a rear being.

My Love

2009-08-25T06:06:00.001-07:00

You are my fire
The one i desire
because of u I would retire
and even get an empire
all just for you

POETRY

2009-08-25T06:05:00.000-07:00

2009-08-23T10:15:00.000-07:00

Being voiceless does not mean I have stopped caring about someone like you .
Even when my voice seems faint, my heart will always echo your name because you can't be forgotten.