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Date Posted: 00:29:29 03/10/02 Sun
Author: gem
Author Host/IP: 166.102.40.194
Subject: Re: Hey, I found my niche this morning, read above.....
In reply to: Bill 's message, "Hey, I found my niche this morning, read above....." on 10:41:13 03/09/02 Sat

Once, when I was at my root of dispair, I sat....in the sun......before a cross....(outside)--at a church......and after whining, complaining.....for relentless hours to God.....I got no answers. I looked down and saw a small red ant.....(here and there)--and one or two crawled upon my sandals and began to bite me. I thought....."How hopeless is this?" But I didn't want to swat the.....ants away, I just said.......(Bite....! Give it all, you got!"

That....helped with my inner torment as well. I thought, I am no more.....than just another ant.....crawling upon the surface of the earth......no better, no less....than any other living creature. Then, I stood up, brushed the tears and ants away, and....started living again. I don't know if anything......momentous happened. I don't recall..hearing a voice from Heaven guiding me.....just a quiet......(inner voice)--that gave me stregnth, to stand up again.

That was four years ago......and ever since then, it has been one moment at a time, one day...at a time.....thru hardship......heart-ache....dispair, anger, and....love. But......I remember the ants.....and their.....(biting)--me was.....nature's and God's way, of telling me, I still was alive.

I guess, maybe that was my answer. We all have to trudge bravely forward, like the soldier in the poem, till we can not trudge no more. Gem

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