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Starting and Keeping
Your Own Private Journal
By Donna Stewart
- The
Mom Team
The Journal is your private place to express all your inner thoughts and
feelings. Begin to understand yourself through writing. You can then move
closer to knowing who you are and who you want to be in life. Your
feelings, your breakthroughs, your desires — record them all here.
Discover yourself!
Starting
and Keeping Your Own Private Journal
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Daddy's Empty
Chair
A man's daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her
father.
When the minister
arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two
pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed
that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. "I guess you were
expecting me, he said.
'No, who are you?" said the father.
The minister told him his name and then remarked, "I saw the empty chair
and I figured you knew I was going to show up,"
"Oh yeah, the chair," said the bedridden man. "Would you mind closing
the door?"
Puzzled, the minister shut the door. "I have never told anyone this, not
even my daughter," said the man. "But all of my life I have never known
how to pray. At church I used to hear the pastor talk about prayer, but
it went right over my head." I abandoned any attempt at prayer," the old
man continued, "until one day four years ago, my best friend said to me,
"Johnny, prayer is just a simple matter of having a conversation with
Jesus. Here is what I suggest. Sit down in a chair; place an empty chair
in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair. It's not spooky
because he promised, 'I will be with you always'. Then just speak to him
in the same way you're doing with me right now."
"So, I tried it and I've liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours
every day. I'm careful though If ! my daughter saw me talking to an
empty chair, she'd either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the
funny farm."
The minister was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old man to
continue on the journey. Then he prayed with him, anointed him with oil,
and returned to the church.
Two nights later the daughter called to tell the minister that her daddy
had died that afternoon.
"Did he die in peace?" he asked.
"Yes, when I left the house about two o'clock, he called me over to his
bedside, told me he loved me and kissed me on the cheek. When I got back
from the store an hour later, I found him dead. But there was something
strange about his death. Apparently, just before Daddy died, he leaned
over and rested his head on the chair beside the bed. What do you make
of that?"
The minister wiped a tear from his eye and said, "I wish we could all go
like that."
Cookies
The woman arrived at an airport one night
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
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