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Inspirational Stories & Poetry

JACKPOT

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,

Jack grew old and Jack got sick.

He gained the world and lost his soul, With every word that Jack would speak,

Jack grew tired and Jack got weak.

Everything that Jack could do,

Jack would lose when time came to.

Jack would walk without the Lord,

So Jack grew dumb and Jack got bored.

One day walking up a hill,

Jack met a girl, her name was Jill.

Jill was one with Jesus Christ,

Jill was young and Jill was nice.

She shared the Light of God with Jack,

And now he's whole where he was lack.

~Bo Kellogg~

12 FL.OZ.NET.WT.

So hear me, Lord, this is my plea:

i want You to recycle me.

Crush me, break me, melt me down,

Make me Your aluminum crown.

Pour me in Your perfect mold,

Let me dry to fit Your hold.

Place me up on top Your brow,

Let the mockers wonder how.

12 fluid ounces of sin i bore,

You gulped it down; made it no more.

And now i know i'll feel great,

Past my expiration date.

In Oregon i'm worth five cents,

But i will live for Your dispense.

Recycle me; Let every nation,

See in me a new creation.

~Bo Kellogg~

Unchanging

The old, the here, the someday

The past, the present, the future

The then, the now, the will be

How can I hold on to the past,

And charge into the future?

Not wanting to go back,

Not wanting to go forward

Stay,

Always,

The same,

Unchanging,

forever.

The only answer

The same yesterday, today, and forever

The morning star, the evening hush, the midnight quiet

The alpha, omega, beginning and end

He created the past,

He is forming the future,

Forgiving my past,

Pushing me forward,

But not to fast.

Stays,

Always,

The same,

Unchanging,

forever.

~Dorothy Farley~

Pride Pill

Spiritually absent, and socially fickle, Just to get hit, it's well worth the tickle. Waiting out the night when the sun will not rise, Kissing all the dead as if they'd open up their eyes. Sitting on the curb where the bus will never stop, Climbing up a mountain that doesn't have a top. Starting on a chapter that doesn't have an end, Why don't you give it up and just call God your friend? so many people know how sinfull they've been but they don't wanna admit that they've screwed up, so they make excuses and put the Gift of Salvation off. they waste away the years of their lives as if some magical person will come along and say, "hey! i can get you to heaven! come along with me!" ...we as believers already know this cannot happen... ...because it already did happen --- on the cross.

~Bo Kellogg~

Around the corner I have a friend,

In this great city that has no end,

Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,

And before I know it, a year is gone.

And I never see my old friends face,

For life is a swift and terrible race,

He knows I like him just as well,

As in the days when I rang his bell.

And he rang mine

if, we were younger then,

And now we are busy, tired men.

Tired of playing a foolish game,

Tired of trying to make a name.

"Tommorow" I say "I will call on Jim"

"Just to show that I'm thinking of him."

But tommorow comes and tommorow goes,

And distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner!- yet miles away,

"Here's a telegram sir"

"Jim died today."

And thats what we get and deserve in the end.

Around the corner, a vanished friend.

A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. Using a process developed by Helice Bridges of Del Mar, California, she called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First she told them how the student made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted with gold letters which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference." Afterwards, the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom and report back to the class in about a week. One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive in a nearby company and honored him for helping him with his career planning. He gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons, and said, "We're doing a class project on recognition, and we'd like you to go out, find somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbon so they can acknowledge a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going. Then please report back to me and tell me what happened." Later that day the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been noted, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy fellow. He sat his boss down and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure." The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss's jacket above his heart. As he gave him the last extra ribbon, he said, "Would you do me a favor? would you take this extra ribbon and pass it on by honoring somebody else? The young boy who first gave me the ribbons is doing a project in school and we want to keep this recognition ceremony going and find out how it affects people." That night the boss came home to his 14-year-old son and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office and one of the junior executives came in and told me he admired me and gave me a blue ribbon for being a creative genius. Imagine, he thinks I'm a creative genius. Then he put this blue ribbon that says 'Who I Am Makes A Difference' on my jacket above my heart. He gave me an extra ribbon and asked me to find somebody else to honor. As I was driving home tonight, I started thinking about whom I would honor with this ribbon and I thought about you. I want to honor you. My days are really hectic and when I come home I don't pay a lot of attention to you. Sometimes I scream at you for not getting good enough grades in school and for your bedroom being a mess, but somehow tonight, I just wanted to sit here and, well, just let you know that you do make a difference to me. Besides your mother, you are the most important person in my life. You're a great kid and I love you!" The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he couldn't stop crying. His whole body shook. He looked up at his father and said through his tears, "I was planning on committing suicide tomorrow, Dad, because I didn't think you loved me. Now I don't need to."

~Helice Bridges~