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Diane Ikonen, Editor
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Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature[a]will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9Let us not become
 
weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.      Galatians Chapter 6
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Table of Contents for January 18, 2007 Edition of Sudbury Christian Messenger
Local News
1.  Cheryl Dunn in Concert                     Friday, January 19/07          St. James Anglican Church
2.  World Religion Day                           Sunday, January 21/07        Older Adult Center               Role of Women in Faith Communities
3.  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity      Wednesday, January 24/07 & Thursday, January 25/07
4.  Donations requested for Chaplaincy to Long Term Care Facilities
5.  Kairos, Ultreya, & Cursillo
6.  Andrew Lowe in Concert for Charity for Paris Street Pantry Food Bank             Feb. 4/07      Marguerite Lougheed Community Center
7.  Pastor Bob Deppisch and wife Amber invite you to join them for a visit to the Holy Land            April 23 -May 02 /07
8.  Testimonial about Sudbury Christian Messenger
9.  Voices for Hospice          October 26, 2007           Proceeds to Palliative Care
 
National News
1.  Request from Toronto re: expectant mother
2.  How Canadian Are You?
3.  Help fund mammograms for needy women by clicking on site
 
International News
1.  America Alone: The End of the World as we Know It - Christianity.ca
2.  2006 saw the loss of religious freedom for American Christians, according to LifeSite News
3.  French government permits home-schooling after international outcry
4.  China By 2020: 30 Million Unhappy Bachelors
5.  Navy Chaplain who lost career for praying "In the name of Jesus"
6.  Catholic World Youth Day topic focuses on sex
 
Words of Wisdom
1.  Why Go to Church on Sundays?
2.  One Flaw in Women
3.  Income Tax Fraud Alert
4.  This is happening in our country, right now
5.  Movie Review    "Facing the Giants"
 
 
Local News
 
1.  Cheryl Dunn in Concert                Friday, January 19/07             7:00 pm
 
Cheryl Dunn will  be in concert at St. James Anglican Church, 1815 Paris Street – Friday, January 19th at 7 p.m.  Tickets are required due to space limitations – free of charge! A donation will be received. For tickets – call 522-5670 (Marion Quesnel), 524-1175 (Pat McNally) or the church at 522-2333.
 Blessings,
 Pat McNally

2.  World Religion Day

There is a slate of speakers from various faiths.
The Role of Women In Our Faith Communities

YMCA Older Adult Centre
140 Durham Street
Sunday January 21, 2007

2:00 to 4:00 PM
everyone welcome, no collection taken, refreshments served
Sponsored by the Baha'is of Greater Sudbury

3.  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 7 p.m. Ste Anne des Pins Church, 14 Beech Street or off Ste Anne Road . Bilingual service with Taizé chant/singing
- Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7 p.m, Holy Redeemer Church, 1887 Bancroft Drive. Preacher : Pastor Bob Welsh, from the Elgin Mission .  

4.  Request for Donations      Chaplaincy to Long Term Care 
Chaplaincy to Long Term Care Facilities is requesting donations of craft materials – wool in particular, but also pieces of material, artificial flowers, etc.  Call 522-5126 or email jan.carrie.steven@sympatico.ca
  
Chaplaincy to Long Term Care Facilities welcomes donations of second-hand (or new) hand-made afghans, quilts or blankets – knitted, quilted, crocheted, etc.  These will be given to residents at our long term care facilities who do not have many visitors.  Call 522-5126 or email jan.carrie.steven@sympatico.ca
 
5.  Kairos, Ultreya, & Cursillo                 January 27/07            7:00 pm
Hope everyone enjoyed a very blessed Christmas

Looking forward to our regular Sudbury Ultreya
on Saturday, January 27th at 7 pm
at the Church of The Ascension on Sparks Street

Some very exciting news: 2 up-coming Kairos weekends to be held at the Sudbury Jail
Women’s – February 15th to 18th
Men’s – 22nd to 25th

We are asking churches or 4th Day Groups to consider, as Palanca (called ‘Agape’ in Kairos), to provide cookies, fruit platters or veggie platters for one of the Kairos weekends

More exciting news: the dates have been set for the next Sudbury/Manitoulin Cursillo weekends
to be held at Villa Loyola in Sudbury

Women’s – May 10th to 13th

Men’s – June 7th to 10th
(Please share this notice with any in your circle who do not have e-mail)


6.  Andrew Lowe in Concert for Charity                    February 4/07
Hosted by St. James Anglican Church
An evening of folk music
Proceeds from tickets go to Paris Street Pantry foodbank
For tickets, please call Marion Quesnel    522 5670

7.  What's happening April 23 to May 2 in the Holy Land?

I just came back about 4 months ago from the Holy Land and it's amazing; the Bible is more real to me than ever before.  We’d love for you to come with us to Israel.  For more information please call 1-705-673-1512

 Blessings Pastor Bob and Amber


8.  Testimonial about Sudbury Christian Messenger

I have enjoyed your NEWS since someone first forwarded it to me
Each week your experienced editing provides a sound scripture based perspective
Those fortunate enough to receive this information are blessed
Thank-you for the wonderful knowledge
Looking forward to many many more editions
Sandy
 
*Editor's Note ........ we love to hear from you!
 
 
9.  Heads Up!         Mark your calendars!!!      Voices for Hospice            October 26, 2007
 Sponsored by St. James Anglican Church
Proceeds to Palliative Care
Ticket information will be forthcoming
 
 
 
National News
 
 
1. Request from Toronto re: expectant mother
 
  Dear Readers,
Aid To Women, a crisis pregnancy centre in Toronto, has been assisting a mom who is expecting twins next month.
Recently she found out, that one of the babies (a boy) has Spina Bifida. This is a birth defect in which the spinal cord has not developed properly. According to the doctors this little unborn child's condition is severe. He is probably paralyzed from the waist down and will need a shunt because of hydrocephali (water on the brain).
The Mother cannot face this challenge and is booked to have a selective abortion of the spina bifida child in a few weeks.
Aid to Women feels that if they can offer this mom a promise that a family will adopt the handicapped child she will carry him to term.
Aid to Women is appealing to the pro-life community to offer a home and heart for the child.
For more information from a mom who did adopt a Spina Bifida baby, who is now a grown man, please call Joanne at 905-309-3340.
To enquire about possibly adopting the child call Aid To Women at 416-921-6016.
 
2.  How Canadian are you? 
Visible-minority immigrants and their children identify less and less with the country, report says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070112.wximmigrant12/EmailBNStory/National/
 
 
3.  Breast Cancer Site Needs Support to Donate to Underprivileged Women
 Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle).

This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
AGAIN , PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS TO TELL 10 TODAY
 
 
International News
 
1.  America Alone: The End of the World as we Know It - Christianity.ca
http://www.christianity.ca/entertainment/books/2007/01.001.html
 
 
 
2.  2006 Losses of Religious Freedom Should Make American Christians Wake Up

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Christians must push back or they will succumb to the anti-Christ proselytization of the dictatorship of relativism

Editorial By LifeSiteNews.com Editor John-Henry Westen
From the Target and K-Mart pharmacists fired for refusing to dispense the morning-after-pill because they considered them to be abortifacient, to the Boston Archdiocese ending 100 years of adoption services after Massachusetts insisted they must permit homosexual adoptions, Christian freedoms deteriorated in 2006.
January 16 is religious freedom day in the United States of America. It commemorates the passage of the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, authored by Thomas Jefferson. It celebrates the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom.
President Bush commemorates the day this year noting, "Across the centuries, people have come to America seeking to worship the Almighty freely. Yet people in many countries live without the freedom to worship as they choose and some face persecution for their beliefs."
The loss of religious freedom is becoming more pronounced in America. A short look at the losses on the religious front in America last year should serve as a wake up call to Christians in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
One would think that the case of the pharmacists and that of the archdiocese mentioned above would be quickly solved by having the court rule against such curbs on religious freedom, but the opposite is true. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz ruled that K-Mart was in the clear for firing the pharmacist despite his objections that he did not want to dispense the abortifacient drugs due to his religious beliefs.
Apart from refusing appeals, it is the courts which in many cases are handing down decisions which encroach on freedom of religion. For instance the 6th Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in May that Rev. William Akridge, a Baptist prison chaplain, was required to permit a practicing homosexual to direct his chaplaincy choir. Akridge argued that while practicing homosexuals could take part in chaplaincy activities he felt it violated his faith to place them into leadership roles as it seemed an endorsement of their behaviour.
In October, the New York Court of Appeals ordered Catholic institutions in the state to provide contraception coverage for female employees in health insurance plans. Since contraception contravenes the Catholic faith, and the decision ruled on specifically Catholic institutions, it is being seen as part of a dangerous trend where courts decide for religious organizations how they must conduct their internal affairs.
The courts even approved official Catholic bashing by the San Francisco city government. In March the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a non-binding resolution blasting the Catholic Church for its opposition to homosexual adoption. Insulting thousands of Catholic city residents, the resolution described Catholic teaching as "hateful", "discriminatory", "insulting" and "ignorant". A lawsuit launched by concerned Catholics was rebuffed when, incredulously, the resolution was been deemed "constitutional" by Federal Judge Marily Hall Patel.
One would think to call the police to stop the insanity. However even the good men and women in blue have been compromised on religious freedom. Christian psychologist Michael Campion, who was first suspended (and then cleared) by the Minneapolis Police Department after city officials learned that he was once a board member of the Illinois Family Institute - a group which (gasp) opposes same-sex 'marriage' and abortion, lost his job with the Department.
The situation even affects our children in grade school as a Rochester, New York Mom found out. The mother was outraged to find out that her 13-year-old daughter was secretly given a prescription for the controversial morning after pill by a school nurse.
Students in high school also feel the pinch of repression. In Nevada, Clark County School District officials cut off the microphone during the valedictorian address of the top student graduating from Foothill High. Brittany McComb had her speech vetted and was ordered to remove the single reference to "Jesus Christ". She decided to go ahead and mention Christ but officials cut the mike as she was about to voice the name. She reasoned, "I went through four years of school at Foothill and they taught me logic and they taught me freedom of speech, God's the biggest part of my life. Just like other valedictorians thank their parents, I wanted to thank my Lord and Savior."
We'd do well to hearken to President Bush's recommendation. "I call on all Americans to reflect on the great blessing of religious liberty, endeavor to preserve this freedom for future generations," he said in his proclamation.

We have to follow Brittany's example and stand up for what we believe in, and press for our right to freedom of religion. Secular atheists are pressing with religious fervor for the removal of any mention of Christ or God in any public forum. Christians must push back or they will succumb to the anti-Christ proselytization of the dictatorship of relativism.

 

3.  France: Ministry Withdraws HomeSchooling Prohibition After International Outcry
By Gudrun Schultz
PARIS, France, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A proposal to outlaw most home schooling in France was withdrawn after an international outcry against the measure was raised by home schooling associations and concerned individuals, according to the U.S.-based Home Schooling Legal Defense Association.
Sections of the bill Protection de L’Enfance (Protection of the Children) would have brought in radical restrictions on home schooling, HSLDA warned, limiting the practice to families who “showed that the health or handicap of their child makes it necessary for him or her to be taught at home.”
Families who would qualify under the restrictions would be required to undergo a home visit by a government official each year, WorldNetDaily reported Jan.13, and they would be forced to use the curriculum from the “National Center of Correspondent Teaching” or another approved source.
Philippe Bas, French Minister of the Family, spoke out against the amendments, saying parents’ freedom to educate their children themselves must be protected.
"As they are, I am not favorable to these amendments [numbers 127 and 128], I find them too restrictive. . . ,” Mr. Bas said. “We must allow parents who, for instance, have three young children, a mother who is willing to take care of them and if they have decided to teach them to read-write-count--if that is their choice of living--provided that we can verify that the educational job is well done, then that freedom must be preserved."
French education officials admitted that poor learning levels in primary school were a factor in the decision to educate at home, for the parents of some 20,000 home schooled students in the country, according to WND. Some 80,000 students enter secondary school unable to read, write or count, the officials pointed out.
In what the HSLDA called an “incredible turnaround of events,” the minister who sponsored the measure withdrew amendments that would have denied most parents the choice to home school their children.
Commenting on the withdrawal of the amendments, HSLDA senior counsel Christopher J. Klicka said, “The homeschoolers in France are thankful that their right to teach their own children will not be taken away. These amendments, if passed, would have
eliminated traditional homeschooling in France, only allowing home schooling if the family could prove that it was necessary for their children to be taught at home due to a handicap or health reason. This is no longer a concern since these amendments have been withdrawn.”
The organization had sent out an alert early in January, warning supporters that the “draconian” suggestion to effectively outlaw home schooling in the country had been proposed in the French parliament.
Asking American home schooling supporters to contact the French Embassy, the HSLDA reminded them of previous successes in lobbying for the protection of home school programs in Ireland, the Czech Republic and South Africa. While the organization originated as a support for home schooling in the United States, the group has expanded their focus to address home schooling concerns internationally.
Home schooling has come under serious attack in Germany recently, with police enforcing a formal ban on home education by seizing children and physically transporting them to school facilities. Some families under threat by enforcement officers have left the country for Austria, where policies on home schooling are less restrictive.
See WorldNetDaily coverage:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53752
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
German Police Physically Force Home Schooled Children to Public School
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06102503.html
German School Official Declares "Homeschooling Illegal"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05011203.html
European Human Rights Court Rules State May Deny Parents Right to Home School Their Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092708.html

 

 

4.  China By 2020: 30 Million Unhappy Bachelors
Authorities say demographic imbalance will result in economic crisis; imminent rise of prostitution, kidnapping; even terrorism

By Cassidy Bugos
BEIJING, January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With no letup in sight for the nation’s unbridled rate of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide, China will have 30 million more marriageable men than women in less than 15 years, Chinese media reported Friday.
Last year there were 118 boys born for every 100 girls, a giant leap from 110 boys to 100 girls only five years ago, the China Daily revealed in a front-page report.
In some areas of China, such as the southern regions of Guangdong and Hainan, the gender gap has ballooned to 130 boys to 100 girls, the report said. The average for developed nations is 104 to 100.
The Chinese communist government’s coercive one-child policy has been in place since the 1970s. This policy alone, researchers say, is already resulting in a severe disproportion between senior and working-age people that could cripple social security and retirement programs.
An unforeseen side effect of the policy, however, comes from the consistent number of Chinese couples who, permitted only one child, much prefer having a son to a daughter. Having a son, they believe, will ensure their support in old age, and also admits them to a certain status quo. Hence a significant percentage of couples who conceive a girl first abort or kill her at birth in order to get a ‘second chance’ at having a ‘firstborn’ son.
Although sex-selective abortion is officially prohibited, in June 2006 the Chinese government refused proposals to make it in any way a punishable offence.
In recent years LifeSiteNews.com has published numerous warnings about the effects of China’s one-child policy and its gender-gap fallout from officials within China and demographics experts around the world.
In March 2004, deputy chairman of the family planning committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Li Weixiong described the visible effects of sex-selective abortion. Not only is it disheartening for the male population, Weixiong explained, it has also had a negative impact on the existing female population, causing a “dramatic rise” in prostitution, mercenary marriage and the black market trade of women.
A year ago University of Toulouse professor of economics Paul Seabright voiced his concern that the gender imbalance in China may lead to violence and even terrorism by the unmarriageable and “sexually frustrated” men there. “I’d like to make a small bet that in 30 years time there will be more terrorist incidents in China than probably almost anywhere else, because of increased competition,” Seabright said.
Turning a deaf ear to such warnings, the Chinese Communist government in the year 2000 announced its decision to celebrate the “great success” of the one-child policy, having “preventing at least 250 million births since 1980,” by making it permanent. The Party stated in its release: “We cannot just be content with the current success, we must make population control a permanent policy.”
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Academic Bets Terrorism Will Thrive in China with 30 Million Frustrated Bachelors
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120602.html
China Will Not Pursue Criminal Penalties For Sex-Selection Abortion
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06062604.html
China Admits its Girl Shortage Caused by One Child Policy is a "Major Threat"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/may/04051107.html
China’s One-Child Policy to Cripple Chinese Economy
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/feb/04021806.html
Slavery, Prostitution Effect of China’s One-Child Policy
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/mar/04030908.html
7000 Unborn Girls Die From Sex-Selection Abortion Daily in India
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06121401.html
“Gendercide”- Abortion and Infanticide of Girls Leading to Lop-Sided Demographics
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05112208.html
UN Study on Violence Against Children Ignores 47 Million Annual Abortion Deaths, Sex Selection Abortions
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06101302.html

 

 

5.  Navy Chaplain Who Won Court Battle and Lost Job for Praying "In Jesus' Name" Would Do It All Again

"This fight cost me everything. My career is over, my family is now homeless, we've lost a million dollar pension, but Congress agreed with me and rescinded the Navy policy, so chaplains are free again to pray in Jesus' name. My sacrifice purchased their freedom. My conscience is clear, the fight was worth it, and I'd do it all again."

Bob Unruh/TN (Jan 15th, 2007)

U.S. Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who, by following his conscience by praying "in Jesus' name" at a White House rally last winter and was subsequently court marshaled, is now being "ejected" from military service "in retaliation" for his victory in court. According to a report in WorldNetDaily, Klingenschmitt victory resulted in changing Navy policy that required religious rites be "non-sectarian."

"This fight cost me everything. My career is over, my family is now homeless, we've lost a million dollar pension, but Congress agreed with me and rescinded the Navy policy, so chaplains are free again to pray in Jesus' name," said Klingenschmitt. "My sacrifice purchased their freedom. My conscience is clear, the fight was worth it, and I'd do it all again."

"There's a Unitarian system of religion that's aimed at Christians," John Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute, is quoted as saying. "It boils down to that. We're seeing it all across the country, with council prayers, kids wanting to mention Jesus. What's going on here is it's generally a move in our government and military to set up a civic religion. I think the Supreme Court's going to have to look at the idea of whether the government can, in any of its forms, tell people how to pray, set up a basic religion and say you can only do it this way."

Source: WorldNetDaily

 

6.  Catholic World Youth Day Message focuses on Sex

By Gudrun Schultz
SYDNEY, Australia, January 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Human sexuality is the focus of this month’s edition of the 2008 World Youth Day newsletter ePILGRIMAGE, inviting young people to examine the questions raised about sexuality in modern society in the light of Catholic teaching.
“This ePILGRIMAGE explores various ways that [the] very positive message about human bodily life and love have been expressed in the Catholic tradition…” wrote Bishop Anthony Fisher, coordinator of World Youth Day 2008.
“There are many voices in the modern world that overestimate the importance of sex--as if no-one could be happy who had not had sex in the last few hours--or trivialize or underestimate its power--as if it were no more humanly significant than any other bodily function.
“But deep down most people know the body, sexuality and fertility are precious and important things which can be used to express some of the noblest things about human relationships, or which can be used instead to hurt and exploit.”
The edition provides young people with an overview of the foundations of Catholic teaching on the meaning of sexuality and the sacrament of marriage, beginning with the old testament Song of Songs and leading to Pope Benedict XVI‘s encyclical on love, Deus Caritas Est.
“This sacrament [of Christian marriage] becomes not only a good relationship, but a deepening and “saving mystery” which reveals to each other, their children, their relatives and their society an intimate and concrete “communion” and God’s unconditional love,” Bishop Fisher writes. “Their love tells the story of Jesus’ total self-giving to the Church; and Jesus’ fidelity to his bride the Church shows them how to live with generosity, forgiveness, self-satisfaction and intimacy.
“All this helps to explain why Christians take sex so seriously and have such high ideals for what they do in their bodily lives.
As an example of the vocation of Christian marriage lived out with beauty and grace, the edition highlights Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, the first modern married couple to be beatified together.
Successful in their individual work in social reform and involvement in Catholic lay groups, the couple “considered their real vocations began when they found each other” the newsletter states. “Their family home in Via Depretis in Rome became the centre of deepening faith, their social apostolate and charity work.”
Maria’s last pregnancy was a life-threatening one. Her doctors pressured her to have an abortion to save her life. The couple refused and dedicated their daughter, Enrichetta, to God in a vigil of prayer. Both mother and baby survived.
The couple’s home became a drop-in centre for people in need during the Second World War. Later, they worked to rebuild Italy in the post-war years, Luigi becoming the deputy attorney general for the nation and Maria helping to found the Sacred Heart Catholic University in Rome.
See full January 2007 edition of ePILGRIMAGE:
http://www.wyd2008.org/index.php/en/wyd08_pilgrims/epilgrimage__1
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Look Who's Quarterbacking World Youth Day 2008 in Australia - a 6'7" Football Star
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06121904.html
 
Words of Wisdom
 
1.  A Church-goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that
it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now,"
he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons, but
for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm
wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at
all."
 This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor"column, much
to the delight of the editor.  It went on for weeks until someone wrote
this clincher:
 "I've been married for 30 years now.  In that time my wife has cooked some
32,000 meals.  But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire
menu for a single one of those meals.  But I do know this ... They all
nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.  If my wife
had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.  Likewise,
if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead
today!"
 When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something!  Faith sees the
invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
 
2.  One Flaw in Women

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This is so TRUE!
 
Subject: "One Flaw in Women"

To all special women who know what it's like
One Flaw In Women
 By the time the Lord made woman,
He was into his sixth day of working overtime.
An angel appeared and said,
"Why are you spending so much time on this one?"
And the Lord answered, "Have you seen my spec sheet on her?
She has to be completely washable, but not plastic,
have over 200 movable parts, all replaceable
and able to run on diet coke and leftovers,
have a lap that can hold four children at one time,
have a kiss that can cure anything from a scraped knee to a broken heart
-and she will do everything
with only two hands."
The angel was astounded at the requirements.
"Only two hands!? No way!
And that's just on the standard model?
That's too much work for one day.
Wait until tomorrow to finish."
"But I won't," the Lord protested.
"I am so close to finishing this creation that is so close to my own heart.
She already heals herself when she is sick
AND can work 18 hour days."
The angel moved closer and touched the woman.
"But you have made her so soft, Lord."
"She is soft," the Lord agreed,
"but I have also made her tough.

You have no idea what she can endure or accomplish."
"Will she be able to think?", asked the angel.
The Lord replied,
"Not only will she be able to think,
she will be able to reason and negotiate."
The angel then noticed something,
and reaching out, touched the woman's cheek.
"Oops, it looks like you have a leak in this model.
I told you that you were trying to put too much into this one."
"That's not a leak,"
the Lord corrected,
"that's a tear!"
"What's the tear for?" the angel asked.
The Lord said, "The tear is her way of expressing her joy,
her sorrow, her pain, her disappointment, her love,
her loneliness, her grief and her pride."
The angel was impressed.
"You are a genius, Lord.
You thought of everything!
Woman is truly amazing."
And she is!
Women have strengths that amaze men.
They bear hardships and they carry burdens,
but they hold happiness,
love and joy.
They smile when they want to scream.
They sing when they want to cry.
They cry when they are happy
and laugh when they are nervous.
They fight for what they believe in.
They stand up to injustice.
They don't take "no" for an answer
when they believe there is a better solution.
They go without so their family can have.
They go to the doctor with a frightened friend.
They love unconditionally.
They cry when their children excel
and cheer when their friends get awards.
They are happy when they hear about
a birth or a wedding.
Their hearts break when a friend dies.
They grieve at the loss of a family member,
yet they are strong when they think there is no strength left.
They know that a hug and a kiss
can heal a broken heart.
Women come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
They'll drive, fly, walk, run or e-mail you
to show how much they care about you.
The heart of a woman is what makes the world keep turning.
They bring joy, hope and love.
They have compassion and ideals.
They give moral support to their family and friends.
Women have vital things to say and everything to give.
HOWEVER, IF THERE IS ONE FLAW IN WOMEN,  
IT IS THAT THEY FORGET THEIR WORTH.

PLEASE pass this along to all your women friends and relatives to remind them just how amazing they are.


3.  Income Tax Fraud Alert

I normally don't send out this type of "sky-is-falling" fraud alerts because people should be well aware of the risks involving e-mail and the Internet by now. However in this case and considering that we are entering the tax refund season, I thought it might be worthwhile passing along this alert from the Department of Finance Canada which involves a message floating around concerning tax refund processing.
 
http://www.fin.gc.ca/fraud_e.html

4.  THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!
We Must Stop This Immediately!
Have you noticed that stairs are getting steeper.  Groceries are heavier. And, everything is farther away.  Yesterday I walked to the corner and I was dumbfounded to discover how long our street had become!
And, you know, people are less considerate now, especially the young ones.  They speak in whispers all the time!  If you ask them to speak up they just keep repeating themselves, endlessly mouthing the same silent message until they're red in the face!  What do they think I am, a lip reader?
I also think they are much younger than I was at the same age.  On the other hand, people my own age are so much older than I am.  I ran into an old friend the other day and she has aged so much that she didn't even recognize me.
I got to thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this morning, and in doing so, I glanced at my own reflection.........well, REALLY NOW - even mirrors are not made the way they used to be!
Another thing, everyone drives so fast these days!  You're risking life and limb if you happen to pull onto the freeway in front of them.  All I can say is, their brakes must wear out awfully fast, the way I see them screech and swerve in my rear view mirror.
Clothing manufacturers are less civilized these days.  Why else would they suddenly start labeling a size 10 or 12 dress as 18 or 20?  Do they think no one notices?
The people who make bathroom scales are pulling the same prank.  Do they think I actually "believe" the number I see on that dial?  HA!  I would never let myself weigh that much!  Just who do these people think they're fooling?
I'd like to call up someone in authority to report what's going on -- but the telephone company is in on the conspiracy too: they've printed the phone books in such small type that no one could ever find a number in there!
All I can do is pass along this warning:
WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!
Unless something drastic happens, pretty soon everyone will have to suffer these awful indignities.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET THIS CONSPIRACY STOPPED!
PS: I am sending this to you in a larger font size, because something has happened to my computer's fonts - they are smaller than they once were.
 

5.  Movie Review     'Facing the Giants'

Since I'm not a fan of movies, I nearly skipped seeing 'Facing the Giants'. I'm so glad I didn't. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen!

Dear Diane,
I am not a movie fan. I haven't been to five movies in the past 10 years. When "Facing the Giants" came out, I was urged by several of my employees to go see the movie. I went, more to please them than to expect anything on the screen. I am glad I did. Because if I had not, I would have missed one of the best movies I have ever seen!

As I sat through "Facing the Giants," I cried and I laughed. I was entertained, and I was inspired. "Facing the Giants" is what movies can and should be.

Let me say it again. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen! If we could see movies like this all the time, I wouldn’t mind paying the more than $7 to see them.

I wish everyone could see the movie. I want you to see it. No cursing. No sex. No violence. Just a great heartwarming, wholesome movie that made me feel good when I walked out of the theater.

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