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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

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LOVE

Your children will become who you are;so be who you want them to be. Anonymous

It's what this issue is all about!

LOVE is a Choice by Cresta Ogle 7

A Change in the Seasonsby Lynn Dale 10

GREAT FOOD & A #Be the GOOD Challenge by Christy Jordan 12

The Galloping Foodie finds CRAB at the Cajun Greek 14 Truth Meets Grace 18

The Lord's Corner 19

Clay Walker's Book "Jesus Was a Country Boy" gets a GOOD review. 24

Living & Logging Our LivesA journal to create. 31

LOCAL Good News, events & occasionally some Good Rumors start on page 32.

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Hatefulness should never become so commonplace that it is thought to be acceptable behavior.

~Lynn Dale

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because one day some won't be here.

Confession time: Sometimes, I do not particularly like my children. They disobey. They fight. They whine. They talk back. They can’t remember to do simple things like save me a pancake for breakfast, (they eat them all!). They are selfish and self-centered. They are sinners.

Now, before you pass judgement on me not liking my kids all the time, let me explain that I have not always been a follower of Christ. I was raised in the church, but turned away during my mid-teens and through my twenties and thirties. I recently rededicated my life to Jesus just two years ago.

Being Christ-like is something I have to consciously, continuously attempt. Sometimes, I’m good at it. Sometimes, I’m not…

So, how do I deal with the sinful nature of these blessings from the Lord? How do I not become consumed by disappointment and despair at these little souls who are

so difficult to steer and mold into the righteous people the Lord wants them to be? Honestly, many times I don’t do the best job. I yell. I get frustrated. I want to pull all of my hair out and then run far, far away.

But other times, God has mercy on me and shows me that LOVE IS A CHOICE. I have to choose to love these little sinners. I have to choose to be like Jesus and show them the love of God so that they can become those righteous people. I have to be righteous, myself. Oh, boy, does that realization hit hard!

I HAVE TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF LOVE.

I have to show love to the rascal who leaned back in my late Grandpa’s chair and broke it. I have to demonstrate forgiveness (God’s own unconditional love) and tell that kiddo, “It’s not okay, but I forgive you,” - the same phrase we teach our kids to say when someone “trespasses against” them. I have to

LOVE bigger than the problem. God is our Heavenly Father, our Creator, our supernatural parent. One of a parent’s jobs here on earth is to show children grace and mercy and how to be obedient, so that they may be obedient to their heavenly Father. I try to explain that to my children every day.

“Mommy and Daddy need you to listen to and obey us so that you will be able to do the same for God. If you don’t listen to our loud, outside voices, telling you what to do and what not to do, how can you listen to God’s quiet, small voice inside your heart?”

The order of things in God’s word is significant, so when, in Galatians 5:22-26, love is presented as the first Fruit of the Spirit. There is no mistake that it is the most important fruit requiring top placement in the list of the attributes of a godly person.

God asks that we offer up our First Fruits to Him (Proverbs 3:9),

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our very best. How fitting that the first Fruit of the Spirit is love then? What better offering is our LOVE, first of all? “Love conquers all” is a commonly-heard phrase, but what does it mean, exactly? If I am living in LOVE, or in other words, living in the Spirit, living in Jesus, there is nothing that can stand in my way. God is FOR me when I live in LOVE. If I am filled with LOVE, my raucous, rowdy, rebellious children learn that LOVE is how we are supposed to handle a difficult situation or person. Yes, we do discipline our children, but we make sure they know why and do so with LOVE.

If I can remember to LOVE, above all, I end up liking my kids a whole lot more! I choose to fill myself with the Fruit of the Spirit and let LOVE guide my heart. I want my children to know, more than the frustration and the desire to rip out my hair and run, that I always, unconditionally LOVE them, because I choose to.

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Perfection is always the goal, but rarely is it the end result.

A Change in the Seasons...A cowboy romance.

SPECIAL FEATURE

A Good News original serial cowboy romance...

written by Lynn Dale

“Some of us want things we can’t have, like Elvis or Brad Pitt or somebody else we think is cool. Not me, I just want a plain “ole” dependable Joe. He doesn’t have to make much money or do anything special, Agent 007 never appealed to me. I’ve always consoled myself with, ‘I’m not asking for much,' but apparently I am. So here I sit on the couch, for yet another exciting Friday night in the life of me. How boring is this?” Heather complained to herself silently.

She was sprawled out on her red and white checkered sofa with her feet dangling over the end of the matching overstuffed ottoman. Her neon green nail polish was clashing severely she noticed, but that was the least of her problems. The way Heather saw things, life was passing her by at a rapid clip and there didn’t seem to be a thing she could do about it.

“I’ve been out there meeting some guys, but they just don’t seem to be good enough. Surely to God, my dad is not the last good, dependable, hardworking man around,” Heather thought, while flipping despondently through the TV channels.

Meanwhile God was looking down on the situation and making his own assessment:

Heather talks to herself a lot these days. Loneliness can do that to a person. She’s on the couch again because she wouldn’t go to dinner with her parents, like I told her to. She doesn’t realize I’ve got her life all worked out for her if she’d just cooperate with me. John is already at the restaurant waiting for her. He goes wherever I tell him to. This is the third time I’ve had him go out of his way to meet her. She always comes up with a better plan and wants to argue with me about it. She’ll miss him again, if she doesn’t hurry up. “Go to dinner!” God shouted, in Heather’s ear.

“Maybe I should have gone to dinner with Mom and Dad after all, but it’s like they’re still raising me for ‘Pete’s sake’. I’m 26 years old and I have dinner with my parents 3 or 4 nights a week,” Heather moaned, wallowing in the hopelessness of her situation.

“Just get up and go,” God whispers, with a tired sigh.

Heather surfed through the channels one more

time, before shutting the TV off and giving up on the idea of it being able to entertain her for the evening. Throwing the remote down on the coffee table she decided to quit fighting with the voice in her head and just go to the damn restaurant. She cooperated partly because she wanted the voice to shut up, but also she heeded it because she couldn’t think of anything better to do anyway. “They said they were going to Tony’s Pizza. Maybe if I hurry I can get there in time for dessert. Like I need some more dessert,” she groaned, but jumped off the couch anyway.

She grabbed her blue nylon jacket, noting that it too clashed with her nail polish as she sprinted out the door. Her little step side truck was parked practically at the front door. The small apartment complex gave her that luxury, which is one of several reasons she’d elected to stay put for the past 4 years. The laundry was right around the corner and it was very seldom that the pool was ever overcrowded. The place had all the charm in the world, but Heather was anxious to move in with somebody and start a family. She was tired of the exciting single life.

God speaks:

“I practically have to beat you over the head child. If I can’t get some cooperation here, you’re gonna be single for a very long time! It’s time for things to change for you, but you have to go when I say go. I’ve got a great future here for you, but you’re gonna have to

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listen to me. I can’t spell it all out, but things are looking up for you girl,” trying to put her in a good mood for her meeting.

She’s just gonna have to grow up. They will make a great pair, but getting them together has been like pulling teeth. Every time I set something up, she moves off in a different direction. They both came to me as children, but one of them is progressing a lot faster than the other one.

John, bless his heart, he just goes where I send him and does what I tell him to do. Girls can be so cranky. She and John will be good together though. Heather likes to have fun and John just meanders though life at his own pace, grabbing what fun he can along the way. They’re both a little hardheaded at times, but they are good people just the same. They’ll make a fine pair. Now, if she’ll just get there, I can pull this off, finally. I think I know what I’m doing. Heather pulled into the parking lot next to her parent’s silver Tahoe. She ran a hairbrush through her long blonde hair, then she tossed it back into the seat, where it permanently lives. She didn’t know why exactly, but she was glad she had come. Just getting out had made her feel better, she guessed.

“You feel better because you’re doing what I told you to do nitwit,” God chuckles.

While locking the doors on her little S-10 truck, she decided she’d have mercy on it and take it to the car wash after dinner. It looked kind of pitiful. She could barely make out the baby blue color under the red clay dust coating. At least she would accomplish something worthwhile tonight.

Heather located her parents easily in the crowded restaurant. Her dad’s silver head was bobbing animatedly above all the others, however she never got as far as their table. She chose the most direct path and one minute the walkway was clear and then a large brown work boot blocked the entire aisle.

John was just getting up to go to the restroom when Heather walked in. He hesitated leaving his seat, in order to get a closer look at her as she walked by. She wasn’t drop dead beautiful, but she was striking enough to get his attention. Her blonde hair was swaying in rhythm

with her stride. Her attention was focused on something to John’s right, so he could gawk all he wanted, and he did.

As she started to go down, Heather looked around desperately for help. She grabbed for something to break her fall. All she could find was the shirt collar of the cowboy that the foot belonged to. She latched on for dear life, but slid on down anyway.

The blue, plaid, cowboy shirt wouldn’t support her weight and began to rip apart at the seam. Heather held on. John tried to catch the falling woman, but it happened so fast he couldn’t stop her. He wound up on the floor on top of her. His shirt had ripped all the way down to his belt and was twisted so tight, it was choking him to death. When it was all said and done, he found himself hugging the prettiest smelling woman he had ever dreamed of. The fact that she was crying like a baby didn’t even register, for a few minutes.

“There, that should take care of that!” God exclaimed, with unadulterated glee! “Another job well done.”

Continued on page 22.

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1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir until well combined.

2. Grease six cups in muffin tin. Divide batter evenly among cups.

3. Bake at 425 for 8-10 minutes.

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Ingredients •1 Cup Self Rising Flour*

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Ten Minute Rolls

I’m the worlds worst about planning a meal from start to finish and not thinking about the bread until we’re about ready to eat. While Jordan rolls are one of my favorite breads to serve at meals, followed by my Mama’s Hoe Cakes at a close second, when you’ve got a family of rumbling stomachs and the meal about to go on the table there is no time to call either of those into play.

That is where these rolls come in handy. If you work fast, you can have them ready - start to finish in about ten minutes using ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Note: Using what you have on hand, how cool is that? Being able to make a meal for your family without having to buy anything special. I think the best meals come out of that, just like the best lives come out of “using what you have on hand” to make your own happiness.

Okay, done being philosophical for now (“for now” meaning for this paragraph).

Here are our finished rolls, all ready to accompany your country dinner, sop up gravy, or spread with butter and jelly.

My #BeTheGood Challenge

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~Christy Jordan

When we are who we are called to be we will set the world ablaze.

~ St. Catherine of Siena

What an awesome opportunity to do something, big or small for another person! But my spin on #BeTheGood is actually going to be to hand it off to someone else…

You see, I was raised by a Mama who taught me that it was my responsibility to put good into the world. When times got hard for us, she showed me the importance of helping others who had it even harder. When someone was down, she showed me how to lift them up with my words and acts of kindness and consideration. Then, whenever the world seemed to be going a little crazy, she’d point out the good – and point out the void where I could do more to increase the goodness there.

I was taught to "Be the Good". And I realize that it is up to me to teach my kids the same. So today, I’m sharing a "Be The Good" morning Katy and I had together.

We got up and got ready a little early and then went out right after breakfast for Katy to perform some random acts of kindness. For starters, we paid a visit to the grocery store. There, Katy filled her buggy with some of her favorite goodies for us to donate to the local food pantry. Now another child who may not have had the opportunity will get to enjoy those same foods my Katy loves so much.

Then, we headed over to Katy’s favorite shopping place, Dollar Tree :). There, we left little surprise dollar bills with note cards attached to them in the toy section as a surprise for kids to find.

Lastly, we went by the local red box and taped sealed bags of microwave popcorn, along with a note, to the machine. Katy Rose and I got a lot of pleasure out of being the good today!

1. Choose a good deed. Could be as simple as paying for the coffee after yours.

2. Share your goods. Pick your favorite social channel (Facebook, Instagram, Vine, Twitter, etc.), but first, make sure to take a selfie (or something appropriate to your story), and share your story, big or small. Be sure to use this hashtag to help this campaign spread: #BeTheGood.

3. Tag 1-5 of your friends to do the same within a 24 hour period.

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This is what greets you at the Cajun Greek!

Sometimes love just shows up on the plate...

This great food was discovered on date night and there is nothing better than when date night gets done right!

Although we have ordered steamed crabs from Cajun Greek for years through the drive thru - we had never been inside. A friend told us about the crab years ago and it's always been a quick, easy way to "get your crab on" without have to dirty up your kitchen.

We went out to try to have a nice dinner and get a "Foodie" done at the same time at another Galveston location and despite their Facebook page claiming they were open, they weren't. Since we were down the street - we decided to go inside and boy are we glad that we did!

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Order her NEW COOKBOOK by clicking right here! I set out to write the one cookbook that I myself would use the most when it came to planning suppers for my family- I hope you'll find it as useful as I intended it to be. Please keep in mind, though, that the recipes in this book and the meals you and I make are really just a tool to bring our families and friends together.

Because at the end of the day, the supper table is where we teach our families where they came from and they let us know where they hope to go. Values, heritage, history, dreams, and encouragement are passed around with the serving platters and roots grow a little deeper with each bite. We may have high hopes and aspirations when we set off into the world each morning, but if you really want to make the world a better place, end the day by coming home to supper.

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1. Mix soup, sour cream and mayonnaise.

2. Stir in chicken, Veg-all and cheese.

3. Add salt and pepper to taste.

4. Line a 9" pie plate with crust.

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6. Top with crust, crimp to seal and cut vents.

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SPIRIT & SOUL

THE PRAYER CORNER

One gave all.

IT NEVER FAILS!

Our prayer...

Lord I ask that my feet would carry me wherever you need me to go today. I pray my arms will hug all that need to be hugged. I ask for you to help my hands help all of your children that are within my reach that need helping. And as always I ask that the words of my mouth be full of what you want said. Amen.

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\God has told us what is good for us:To always do what is right, to show constant love and to live in constant fellowship with him.

Based on Micah 6:8

...Or is it Just Refusing to Condone BAD Behavior?

Is it REALLY Judgement?

I don't have the right to disapprove of you, but I can and should disapprove of your actions sometimes. Judgment is wrong because we are not allowed to judge, that is God's job. However, not condoning behavior that is unacceptable is not only the right thing to do, it is also our responsibility to do so.

We have been shirking our responsibility to avoid being uncomfortable for far too long.

I believe that our society in an attempt to be more accepting of each other has run off into the opposite ditch, by going too far. We are now supposed to accept literally everything or risk being called very uncomplimentary names. (Grown men and women calling each other names is a prime example of unacceptable behavior.) Children cannot possibly learn what is acceptable behavior if everything is acceptable.

Some things are just NOT, period.

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1. “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”2. “I Surrender All”3. “He Touched Me”4. “Softly and Tenderly”5. “Jesus Loves Me”6. “It Is Well With My Soul”7. “The Old Rugged Cross”8. “I Need Thee Every Hour”9. “How Great Thou Art”10. “I’ll Fly Away”11. “Jesus Paid It All”12. “Suppertime”13. “When I’m Gone”

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THE CORNER***

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May you hear God's voice in your heart, know His touch in your lifeand feel His love for you each day.

GODSunny Side Up!

Let your light shine.

SPIRIT & SOUL

As we walk uphill towards home, we never have to walk alone.

It’s All About Me!

When you learn to lean on Me and stand on My word, you will live the abundant life I’ve called you to live. I laid out a plan for your life, but I can’t make you walk in it. You have to choose to walk in it. You have to choose My will over your own. You don’t know what is best, but I do. You can’t see all I can see. You don’t know the way home. I told you, I am the way and no one gets there but through Me. I have begged you to trust Me, that’s all I can do. Abundant life is what you get when you cooperate with Me. It’s all about Me. The prayer, church, and

bible study, they all teach you about Me. I remain at the top no matter what is going on at the bottom if your focus is where it should be. On Me.

You are taught how to live by Me through these avenues. I will lead you no matter what is going on. You have to do what I have told you to do. W h e n nothing changes except your circumstances, then you have stability. That’s building your house on THE ROCK.

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This is the sunset view from a cabin at the KOA campground in Onalaska Texas.

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Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) returns to England after many years as a coffee planter in Kenya. He's writing a book, "My Life In Kenya", and he needs secretarial help. He hires a temporary secretary from an agency run by widow, Jean Pargeter (Judi Dench). They are former lovers whose lives intersect again 40 years after they lost touch with each other.

Lionel is now divorced and Jean is a widow with an adult daughter, Judith, who works in Jean's secretarial office. As Lionel works on a memoir with a cheerful but brash agent, Alistair, he begins to rekindle the tender romance with the woman who got away all those years ago. Cheering them on is Sandy, Judith's best friend and

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As Time Goes By like most British comedies is a little difficult to understand at times, but that's what rewind is for. You won't want to miss a single comedic moment of this truly wonderful, heartwarming and funny television show.

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Heather tried to move, but she couldn’t. She squirmed and grunted, but she couldn’t get out from under the big cowboy. Her face was beat red from effort, from crying and from excruciating pain. “Get off of me,” she screamed in agony, but it sounded more like a plea. John tried to move, but couldn’t because she was holding him down by his shirt. She had it wadded up and clenched to her chest like a rosary. He finally wedged himself away, letting her pull his shirt clear out of his pants rather than try to pry her hand off of it.

People gathered, hovering all around them. John leaned back over her to try to help her sit up. That’s when he saw her foot. It was turned in an unnatural position, twisted backwards. He quickly grabbed her up and sat her down in his chair, letting her foot realign itself on it’s own, during the move. She was fighting and screaming at him the whole time and the terrified look in her eyes tempted him to put her back on the floor.

“Stop! Oh, stop, stop! Oh my God, look at my foot,” she shrieked, staring helplessly at her dangling ankle. The shock of what she saw stopped her struggling completely and she went limp.

“I know. It’ll be okay. Just sit here for a second,” he told her, patting her on the shoulder. John located a waiter among the people that were standing around them and hollered for him to get some ice.

Seeing his daughter fall, J.C. Carter and his wife Leah left their table and shouldered their way through the crowd. “Heather are you okay?” her dad asked, trying to make out what was wrong. “Honey, what’s hurt?” Leah asked, as she put her arm around her daughter’s shoulder and tried to comfort her.

John had squatted down in front of her and gently raised the woman’s leg up so that she and the woman, who was hugging her, could see it. He propped her calf on his thigh and looked up into her eyes. They were so full of tears they glistened like blue diamonds. “I think you need to go to the hospital,” he told her solemnly.

He rubbed her calf hoping to calm her down and listened to the women talk. The tall woman had to be her mother. He could see the same facial expressions and the younger woman was hanging on the older woman’s

every word. They were both beautiful. Her mother looked to be in her early fifties, her blonde short hair was not yet graying. At least it didn’t appear to be anyway. The younger one looked like she was about 25. Her hair was tangled and sticking out in all different directions, making her look like some kind of wild blonde goddess. She was kind of healthy. He could tell that by just holding her leg, but she was beautiful just the same. Of course he had always had a weak spot for crying women.

Heather looked at her foot and then at the hand that was rubbing her leg. It was a strong hand. Tan and warm. She could feel the warmth of his hand through her jeans. She had heard him tell her she needed to go to the hospital, but was more interested in his hands than in what he was saying. She liked nice hands and these were an A+. She wiped the tears out of her eyes, so she could take a good look at his face.

Gorgeous, she thought. Simply gorgeous. Not movie star material, but not bad. Not bad at all. His face was tan and strong too. He had neatly cut jet-black hair and long black eyelashes framed his hazel eyes. He had bedroom eyes. The kind that get all soft and starry looking, under the right circumstances. Heather didn’t know how long she stared at him and she didn’t care. When he repeated that she needed to go to the hospital, she moved her focus to his teeth. Very nice and they were really white too. But that was probably because of his tan she figured.

“He’s beginning to think I’m a mute because I won’t answer him,” she thought. She guessed his age at about 30. Perfect. Just perfect. Pulling her mind back to the present, she leaned forward and told him, “I think I need to go too,” and tried to smile. She turned to her dad and said, “Daddy, I think my foot’s broken.”

The waiter appeared with the ice for her foot and her dad asked him if he could get their check. The young waiter handed the ice to John, nodded his agreement to the older gentleman and headed off to total the check. J.C. handed his car keys to his wife and told her to bring the car around to the front door. Leah kissed her daughter’s cheek and told her she’d be right back.

John put the bag of ice on the woman’s foot gradually, while checking her face for her reaction to the

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5's in each category are possible...They got 28 out of 30 of them!

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Junior's Boyby:

Continued from page 14.

The table display as you enter the front door is a dead giveaway to the quality of food here. It makes deciding what to order a real challenge, but we settled on the Shrimp Diablo (pictured on page 15), a big bowl of seafood gumbo and those crabs you see right here. We came looking for crawfish, but those had been sold out since 3 o'clock. We arrived a little after 6 on Sunday afternoon and had to settle for crabs instead... oh how we suffer for you, our readers!

The gumbo was a little too spicy for my taste, but his highness had no such difficulty. The shrimp were excellent, with just the right heat and sweetness. The show stopper is the crab though. If you know crab, you can tell these are fresh, sweet blue crabs and they can stand on their own. I usually order them boiled but decided to try the fried and it's a tough call to determine which is best.

If you can't eat them all at dinner, I'd say the boiled is best. But, if you've got enough people eating them to not have leftovers - the fried might be a little better. Either way, they know their crab preparation and the crabs are not expensive in our opinion. For what you get and the ease and convenience, it's really not much more than if you cooked them yourself. (Unless of course you caught them yourself too!)

All in all, for a date night - the Cajun Greek was a great success! And after looking at everything on that display table, obviously there are a couple more items we really want to try, so we will be back.

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Besides that, he's a Texas boy and he does an awful lot of GOOD work for MLS. We couldn't find the book on his website, so the link goes to Amazon where you can read some more of it if you like, before you order it.

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I can't tell you how much my heart melts when I walk into our house at the end of the day and hear my kids squeal, "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy's home!"

There's no sweeter sound on this earth! No matter what kind of day I've had, how tired I am, how stressed I am or what's weighing on me, when I hear their voices and they run to hug my neck, I'm the happiest man alive.

If you're a parent, then you know what I'm talking about. And the Bible tells us that if we, who are human and sinful, love our children and want to give them our full attention, then how much more does our Heavenly Father love us? This was a radical concept for the Jewish people listening who had been taught to approach God in a very abstract, impersonal, detached kind of way.

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pain. She nodded her head to encourage him to let it down completely and he did. Heather’s foot had ceased to hurt at some point she realized. She was far more interested in the man holding her leg, than in what her foot felt like.

“Sir, do you want me to carry her to the car for you?”, John asked the man she’d called Daddy.

“It’ll probably take both of us,” J.C. informed the young man holding his daughter’s foot.

Heather thought she would die.

Here she sat with a gorgeous man holding her leg, this perfect opportunity just happened. The best prospect she had seen in a long time and her dad tells him that she’s too heavy to be carried by one man alone. She wanted to sink right into the floor she was staring down at and let it swallow her up.

Seeing the mortified look on the young woman’s face, John gently let her foot down to rest on the floor. He wrapped his arms around her and in an instant he had her resting against his chest and was headed for the door. He winked at the guys at his table, who all had had front row seats to his little adventure thus far. Unable to hold back a gloating smile, he nodded his good-bye and knew they were all jealous as hell. John told her dad on his way past him, “That’s okay Sir, I think I can manage.”

John looked down at the woman in his arms as he walked out and smiled for the first time. “He was just trying to be polite, you know,” he told her and squeezed backwards through the restaurant doors to get outside. Heather didn’t care anymore. Not about anything. This gorgeous man was carrying her out and he was smiling at her to boot.

“It doesn’t get much better than this,” she thought. Then she noticed his shirt. Her hand had been resting on his bare belly. His shirt was flapping in shreds by his side. Startled, she snatched her hand back like it was on fire. Seeing her shock, John explained, “You ripped it completely off of me,” smiling at the innuendo.

Heather stuttered out an apology and concentrated on keeping her hands to herself. She did, however, notice that the man did not appear to be straining at all while they were waiting for her mom to pull up. “I’m so sorry about your shirt,” Heather apologized. “I’m sorry I tripped you. I was getting up, when something caught my eye and while I was hesitating, you just fell over.”

Neither one knowing what else to say, they just looked at one another while they waited. Both liked what they saw. Their observations were interrupted by her mom’s arrival. Heather’s dad came out just in time to open the back door and John maneuvered her inside. “I’d like to go with you to the hospital, I feel sort of responsible,” he said. “I’ll take my truck,” he added, when she hesitated answering him.

“Oh that’s okay. It wasn’t you’re fault,” she replied and then immediately wished she could take it back. “Just the same, I’d feel better, if I knew you were gonna be all right. Do you mind?” He asked. “No, not at all. Mom are we going to Mainland General?”

Leah confirmed the location with an odd grimace. Mainland General was the only hospital in town. She wondered what her daughter was thinking? John patted Heather on the shoulder and told her he would meet them there.

Heather was silent. Her parents thought she must be in a great deal of pain, because Heather was never silent. The longer she was quiet, the faster her dad drove. Heather was lost in her own little world. “What a guy,” she thought. “This could be it. He could be the one. He’s cute, he’s nice, and he’s coming to the hospital. Oh my God!” she panicked. Realizing she was going to see him again in a few minutes she needed to hurry.

“Mom, where’s my purse?” she asked, somewhat hysterically. “It’s right here dear,” her mom answered and handed the overstuffed leather bag over the seat to her. Heather spent the rest of the trip, fixing her face.

Editor's Note: You can find more of this adventure in Chapter 2 in next month's issue of the Good News.

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