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Awwww...too bad! I would have loved to have seen it knowing your terrific taste in spiritual things.
It's good to see you Graceful! It's been a long time!
It's good to see you Graceful! It's been a long time!
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You're welcome! I went there one day looking for you and couldn't find you.Graceful said:Amy,
I have been posting in the CF Catholic section. Thank you for missing me
Grace
Well, good to "see" you!
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Amy,
Most of the time I am on Agnus Dei forum. BTW,
I just activated your account 
http://www.jezus.mojeforum.net/index.php
Forum build for love.
Grace
Most of the time I am on Agnus Dei forum. BTW,
I just activated your account http://www.jezus.mojeforum.net/index.php
Forum build for love.Grace
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Really! Well I really missed talking to my sisters that used to frequent WingsofWorship so I thought it was a good way to keep in touch. They don't hang out here. I never see them.
You must play an important part with that ministry, Agnus Dei, that's great!
I shall look for you there,
Blessings!
You must play an important part with that ministry, Agnus Dei, that's great!
I shall look for you there,
Blessings!
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kisstheson said:
Amy,
I am the administrator It is a small forum but very cozy and friendly. At least everyone says so. Yes, few people whom you already know have been posting there. The forum was created about two months ago.
It has been a while since I heard anything from you too so I am pleased that you will be visiting us.
The truth is that all work was done by Jesus
so it is His forum alone. Like the name says: Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God. May His name be for ever blessed. We also have a Catholic priest who helps people to learm more about Catholic faith. He is in charge of : question/answer section. I know him personally, very kind and loving person. Jesus truly sent him to us.
Grace
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Graceful said:Amy,
It is a small forum but very cozy and friendly. At least everyone says so. Yes, few people whom you already know have been posting there. The forum was created about two months ago.
It has been a while since I heard anything from you too so I am pleased that you will be visiting us.
The truth is that all work was done by Jesus
We also have a Catholic priest who helps people to learm more about Catholic faith. He is in charge of : question/answer section. I know him personally, very kind and loving person. Jesus truly sent him to us.
Grace
You are the administrator?! How about that?! That's wonderful! I just sent an e-mail to you. For some reason I can't reply on the forum even though I tried logging in a million times using my new username and password.
Well, Praise Jesus! I hope I get to say "hello" to evryone soon.
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I didn't get your mail but it is strange that you can't post. It has never happened to anyone else You can send me your password and I will try to post under your username (just as a test).
Grace
You can send me your password and I will try to post under your username (just as a test). Grace
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Amy,
Another new member just posted so I do not know what happened when you tried. Maybe you tried to leave the post before your account was activated
Grace
You finally posted
Another new member just posted so I do not know what happened when you tried. Maybe you tried to leave the post before your account was activated
Grace
You finally posted
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I am still crying with joy over father's love.
This is an amazing video clip of the Father and Son team that did the
Iron Man together.
Read the story below first and the video clip will be
more meaningful to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7k-as91v0&mode=related&search=
"I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for
their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair
but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112
miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes
taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick
was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged
and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told
him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an
institution.''
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything
to help the boy communicate. "No way,'' Dick says he was told. "There's
nothing going on in his brain.''
"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out
a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by
touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to
communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!'' And after a high school
classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity
run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that.''
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker'' who never ran
more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he
tried.
"Then, it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. "I was sore for two
weeks.''
That day changed Rick's life. "Dad,'' he typed, "when we were running,
it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' And that sentence changed Dick's
life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he
could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try
the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way,'' Dick was told by a race official.
The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a
wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the
massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race
officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the
qualifying time for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy
who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going
to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Well,
now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans
in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by
an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way,'' he says.
Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a
cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston
Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best
time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record,
which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by
a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.
"No question about it,'' Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the
Century.''
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had
a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries
was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor told
him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago.''
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass.,
always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's
Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. "The thing I'd most like,''
Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''
This is an amazing video clip of the Father and Son team that did the
Iron Man together.
Read the story below first and the video clip will be
more meaningful to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7k-as91v0&mode=related&search=
"I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for
their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair
but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112
miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes
taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick
was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged
and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told
him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an
institution.''
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything
to help the boy communicate. "No way,'' Dick says he was told. "There's
nothing going on in his brain.''
"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out
a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by
touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to
communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!'' And after a high school
classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity
run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that.''
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker'' who never ran
more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he
tried.
"Then, it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. "I was sore for two
weeks.''
That day changed Rick's life. "Dad,'' he typed, "when we were running,
it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' And that sentence changed Dick's
life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he
could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try
the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way,'' Dick was told by a race official.
The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a
wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the
massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race
officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the
qualifying time for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy
who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going
to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Well,
now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans
in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by
an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way,'' he says.
Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a
cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston
Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best
time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record,
which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by
a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time.
"No question about it,'' Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the
Century.''
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had
a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries
was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor told
him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago.''
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass.,
always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's
Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. "The thing I'd most like,''
Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''
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gabrielListens
eagles fly alone
That story left me speechless - and in tears. I am gonna have to wait to see the video. Thank you so much for sharing that.
gabriel
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Pray that they are benign. Also my son in law and grandson are going to Iraq very soon please pray for their safety and for their faith to remain strong. My son Gary will be getting out of prison next month and has expressed concerns about being on his on again. Please pray that God gives him the courage and strenght to face the outside world. My grandson Chance broke his left arm and is having trouble with school work because he is left handed. Please pray that his arm will heal quickly. I thank you Lord Jesus that You are in control of all things and I thank you for the brothers and sisters who will read this and say a little prayer for us. I love You, Lord Jesus.
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