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*The Small Red Spot* ______________________________________ If you enjoy this free email service, I encourage you to spread the word to family and friends that we may bring inspiration into the lives of many! If you are not on the list and this has been passed along to you, join the thousands of HeartTouchers.com readers around the world by visiting: http://www.HeartTouchers.com ____________________________________________ Be sure to check out our brand new inspirational list just for teenagers! Heart4Teens.com To subscribe visit: http://www.Heart4Teens.com This weekly list contains Heart-touching stories, quotes, links to uplifting web sites, and humor geared towards the teenage crowd. However, parents of teens, grandparents, college students, youth pastors, teachers, coaches, and anyone who just can't read enough inspirational stories will also benefit! What are you waiting for?! Subscribe today to receive your weekly encouragement! _________________________________________ Before we get to today's story we wanted everyone to know that we are finally able to accept credit card orders for the autographed inspirational books in our online bookstore at: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/books For those of you who don't feel comfortable sending checks or money orders, you can now order via your credit card in a matter of minutes. And remember, all the money coming in is going to our youth ministry for upcoming trips! Be looking for a follow-up email soon with detailed listings of each book! And last but not least, we now have banners that you can take off the website to help spread the word about HeartTouchers.com and Heart4Teens.com. http://www.HeartTouchers.com/grab_a_banner From my family to yours, Michael ___________________________________ ___________________________________ The Small Red Spot By Melva Cooper It had been a most difficult week. The twelve year-old son of our daughter's best friend had drowned in Lake Norfork. Blake was the oldest of their three children and our granddaughter's had spent much time with him during his short life. Most days found us weeping tears of sadness from the sudden death of this young friend. Yet, we could rejoice because his grandfather was able to stand at the funeral and tell the story of Blake receiving Jesus Christ as his Personal Savior. Our five year-old granddaughter, Mary Kathryn, came home from school excitedly showing us a picture she had drawn. She had made it for the mother of young Blake who had drowned. In the picture she had sketched two people. "This is Blake", Mary Kathryn said, "And the other one is Jesus", she continued with her explanation. In Mary Kathryn's picture, Blake and Jesus were in a white area she called Heaven. They were standing on a street of gold. It was so precious! And I loved it that my sweet Mary Kathryn would make something so lovely for this mother who was sorrowing very deeply. I noticed a small spot on the otherwise immaculate gold street. Thinking it was a mistake on the paper, I asked Mary Kathryn about it. She looked up at this grandma as if I should know why that tiny red spot was there. And then in her little grown-up five year-old voice she said to me, "Grandma, that is the blood of Jesus who died on the cross to save us from our sins." The depth of maturity I saw and heard in Mary Kathryn that day startled me. It shouldn't have, but it did. After all she had asked that same Jesus into her heart only a few short months before. Mary Kathryn, her mother, and her sister went out the door to deliver the picture. I stood with my hands lifted to heaven, praising God's Holy Name, knowing that their earthly playmate, Blake, was now walking in heaven on those streets of gold. All because Jesus had shed His blood to cleanse us from our sins, just like Mary Kathryn had illustrated so beautifully. "But if we are living in the light of God's presence, Just as Christ is, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from every sin." I John 1:7 (NLT) Melva Cooper jmelva@cox-internet.com E-mail Melva and let her know your thoughts on her story! ******* Melva Cooper is a wife, mother, and grandmother from Jonesboro, Arkansas. She is also a free-lance writer. She writes a "Grandparenting" article for Northeast Arkansas Parent. Obadiah Press will be published one of her Grandparenting stories in Living By Faith to be released later this year. Melva is also a big NASCAR fan and she writes articles about Christian motorsports drivers for Christian Motorsports Illustrated. She is a staff writer for the motorsports website www.catchfence.com . Many of her articles have been published on websites and in Ezines. ________________________________________ Thought For The Day: "A person never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's." Verse for the Day: "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things." --Matthew 12:35 Kid's Thought for the day: "Look behind the puppet theatre." Parent's Thought For The Day "An ounce of loving role modeling is worth a pound of parental pressure." --V. Gilbert Beers Coach's Thought For The Day "Coaches are never solely responsible for their team's succuss or failure, but they are solely accountable." Writer's Thought For the Day: "I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others." --Moliere Deep Thought For The Day: "If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started." __________________________________________ Can't get enough inspirational stories in your life? Would you like to send a unique gift to your friends and family? Then order a copy of the inspirational book: Straight From the Heart "A Celebration of Life" by Michael T. Powers for only $13.95. You can purchase or preview Straight From the Heart in just a few minutes via this link: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/michael_powers ___________________________________________ MICHAEL T. POWERS www.HeartTouchers.com "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20 _________________________________________ The copyrights to the stories that appear in HeartTouchers.com are owned by the authors and are used with their permission. We refuse to run stories without the author's permission and contact info listed after the story. We also refuse to publish stories listed as "author unknown." (All of which violates Copyright Law and the rights of the authors.) This e-mail may be forwarded in its entirety, but please do not cut and paste the stories to be used elsewhere unless you have contacted and been given permission by the individual writer. Thank you so much for honoring the rights of those writers who graciously share their stories with us! __________________________________________ Video Imagery --Michael's Video Production Business Dear Michael, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for the beautiful video you made for me! It was so special to see both of my parents in tears as they watched their children grow up in pictures before their eyes! I loved the way you made Estania's part set aside from the rest--that was the part that really got them! The music was beautiful. My mom kept blubbering, "What song is that?" I don't know how you did such a beautiful job with the video in such a short time. I really appreciate your doing it so quickly. You have a wonderful gift, and I thank God that you are using it to create such sentimental memories. I hope that I can find my niche like that in an area that I love. Your video gave us one of our most lasting Christmas memories! I hope yours was filled with moments to be treasured forever! Love, Trisha Silverhill, AL Let me make you a video from your photos! Check out my video production business by visiting: http://www.hearttouchers.com/video_imagery/ ___________________________________________ Would you like to see your story in HeartTouchers.com? Writer's guidelines can be found on our Web site here: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/guidelines/ ___________________________________________ Do you feel as if life has no meaning for you? http://www.greatcom.org/english/four.htm __________________________________________ Reading Books, Changing Lives! For those of you who would like to purchase the books from the HeartTouchers.com bookstore via your credit card, you can now do so! You can now order a number of different autographed best-selling inspirational books for the same price you would get them in the store, the shipping to you is paid for, and you are helping change the lives of teenagers and those they come in contact with! And best of all, every penny from the book sales are going to youth ministry to help pay for a life-changing winter retreat and a missions trip to Guatemala this summer! To purchase via credit card or for detailed descriptions of each book visit: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/books |
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