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Almighty and Everlasting God.

I thank You, O Lord, my God
For rescuing my Son Arnold, when he was "stabbed" (9 years ago)
and for restoring his life for for him; for me, his mother,
his sister and his brother;
for the the lady (Kathy) and her family, who opened
their door of him, in the late night, at great risk to
themselves, when he needed help;
for all who have taken care of him, during the period, of his need
(the ambulance driver, the hospital attendants, doctors and
nurses, etc.); for all who loves and cares for him, and
for all who had benefited from him being alive from that
time on to now, and who will benefit from him being alive
and well from now on in and in the future; for the ones who
have caused him his pains and sufferings (may they be forgiven
by You, for I have done so in my heart.)

I continue to ask of You, O Lord God, let not the second
chance that You have given him in this earthly life be wasted,
but to forgive him too for all his sins and transgressions
against You, against Our Lord and saviour-Jesus Christ and
against the Holy Spirit; and against all he have caused pain.
Show him O Lord God, the things You will have him do, and lead
him on to the road to righteousness.
Bless him in deed O Lord God, and enlarge his hoizons and his
territories; lead him away from temptations and deliver him
from evil, so he will caused no one pain and sufferings and
that he too may not have to endure pain and sufferings.

Continue to keep him in good health and give him strength, O Lord God
Remove the anger, the hatred, the bitterness, the feeling of
hopelessness, of helplessness, of rejections or depressions,
the fear, the grief, the sorrow, the sicknessess and deseases,
the pain and sufferings, the demons, and all the evil that may now
dwells within his heart, his mind, his body, his spirit and
his soul, and those that may come to dwell within his heart
his mind, his body, his spirit and his soul, and replace these
O Lord God, with continuing and renewed Love for You, for
our Lord and Saviour-Jesus Chirst and for the Holy Spirit;
with love for me and his mother, for his sister and his brother;
with love for all humankind;
with continuing and renewed Faith and Trust,in You, in our Lord
and Saviour-Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit.
With hope, with happiness and laughter, with forgiveness and
tolerance, with gratitude and humility, with confidence and
competence, with kindness and caring, with generosity and
thanksgiving.
Continue to guide and protect him, O Lord God; provide for
his needs and look after his welfare; continue to show him
the things You will have him do, and continue to lead him on
to the road to righteousness.
I ask and pray this of You, in the precious name of our Lord
and Saviour-Jesus Christ, and leave the rest to You, to
do according to Your willing and as You may seem fit.
For You, Lord God, knows what is best for him.
Amen.

Almighty and Everlasting God,
I thank You for the beautiful, loving, faithful and honest,
understanding and forgiving, supportive and considerate
kind, loving, caring, tolerant wife and companion you have
provided me with over the years and who have been with me for
more than thirty-three years.

I love her and I care for her dearly, and I asked of You,
Lord God, to let no harm befalleth her, and for You to
continue blessing her, guide and protect her and to provide
for her needs and look after her welfare, even as You have
have blessed her, guided and protected her, provided for her
needs and look after her welfare in the past and even as You
are blessing her, guiding and protecting her, providing
for her needs and looking after her welfare now.
For Father God, I come to realize, that You have been good,
merciful and kind to her. Continue Lord God, to be good
merciful and kind to her. Continue to bless her in deed and
enlarge her horizon and her territories. Lead her away from
temptation and deliver her from all evil, so that she may
cause no one harm and pain and that she too may suffer no
harm and pain.
Continue Lord God, to keep her in good health and give her
strength - spiritually, mentally and physical.
Remove any anger, hatred, bittnerness, prejudice, greed, envy,
lust, discontent, feelings of hopelessness, helplessness,
rejections, depressions, fear, grief, sorrow, sickness and
diseases, pain and sufferings, demons and any evil that may
now dwell in her heart, her mind, her body, her spirit and
her soul and or those that might come to dwell within her heart,
her mind, her body, her spirit and her soul,
and replace these with continuing and or renewed love for
You, for our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and for the Holy
Spirit. With love for me, her children, her brother and her
sisters. With love for all humankind.
With continuing and or renewed faith and trust in You, in
our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and for the Holy Spirit.
With love, with hope, with happiness and laughter.
With forgiveness and tolerance. with contentment and consideration,
with humility and courage, with generousity, gratitude and thanksgiving.

I pray and asked all this of You, in the precious name of our
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and leave the rest to You to
do according to Your willing. for Father God, You knows what is
best for her. Amen.

O Heavenly Father:
We thank Thee for food
and remember the hungry.
We thank Thee for health
and remember the sick.
We thank Thee for friends
and remember the friendless.
We thank Thee for freedom
and remember the enslaved.
May these rembrances
stir us to service.
That Thy gifts to us may be used
for others. Amen
By the late Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby).

An unknown author has penned these thought-provoking words.

I would rather have one little rose
From the garden of a friend
Than to have the choicest flowers
When my stay on earth must end.

I would rather have a pleasant word
In kindness said to me
Than flattery when my heart is still,
And life has ceased to be.

I would rather have a loving smile
From friends I know are true
Than tears shed 'round my casket
When to this world I bid adieu.

Bring me all your flowers today,
Whether pink, or white, or red;
I'd rather have one blossom now
Than a truckload when I'm dead.

....I AM THANKFUL (to GOD):
(with thanks to the unknown author)

FOR THE WIFE
who says it's hot dogs tonight,
Because she is home with me,
and not out with someone else.

FOR THE HUSBAND
who is on the sofa being a couch potato,
Because he is home with me
and not out at the bars.

FOR THE TEENAGER
who is complaining about doing dishes
Because it means she (he) is at home,
not on the streets.

FOR THE TAXES I PAY
because it means I am employed.

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY
Because it means I have been surrounded by friends.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG
Because it means I have enough to eat.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME AT WORK
Because it means I am out in the sunshine.

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,
AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING
Because it means I have a home.

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
Becuase it means we have freedom of speech..

FOR THE PARKING SPOT I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT
Because it means I am capable of walking
and I have been blessed with transportation.

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL
Because it means that I am warm.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH WHO SINGS OFF KEY
Because it means I can hear.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING
Because it means I have clothes to wear.

FOR THE WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES AT THE END OF THE DAY
Because it means I have been capable of working hard.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFF IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
Because it means that I am alive.

AND FINALLY(?), FOR TOO MUCH E_MAIL
Because it means I have friends who are thinking of me.

LIVE WELL, LAUGH OFTEN, & LOVE WITH ALL YOUR HEART!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Father God, we hereby confess and repent for all our sins and
transgressions against You, against our Lord and Saviour- Jesus
Christ and against the Holy Spirit.

We have disobeyed You, we have disobeyed our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Chirst and we have disobeyed the Holy Spirit.

We have lied to You, we have lied to our Lord and Saviour- Jesus
Christ and we have lied to the Holy Spirit.

We have told lies about You, we have told lies about our Lord
and Saviour- Jesus Christ and we have told lies about the Holy Spirit.

We have cursed You, we have cursed our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
and we have cursed the Holy Spirit.

We have stolen from You, we have stolen from our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Christ and we have stolen from the Holy Spirit.

We have done evil in Your name, we have done evil in the name of
our Lord and Saviour- Jesus Christ and we have done evil in the
name of the Holy Spirit.

We have done evil in Your sight, we have done evil in the sight
of our Lord and Saviour-Jesus Christ and we have done evil in the
sight of the Holy Spirit.

We have wished evil in Your name, we have wished evil in the name
of our Lord and Saviour- Jesus Christ and we have wished evil in
the name of the Holy Spirit.

We have spoken evil of You, we have spoken evil of our Lord and
Saviour- Jesus Christ and we have spoken evil of the Holy Spirit.

We have thought evil of You, we have thought evil of our Lord and
saviour- Jesus Christ and we have taught evil of the Holy Spirit.

We have lied to one and another, we have told lies about one another,
we have done evil unto one another, we have wished evil upon one
another, we have spoken evil of one another and we have thought evil
of one another.

WE are greedy, we are envious, we are prideful, we are spiteful
and forgiving.
We lack humility and compassion.

Yes, Lord God,Almighty, we have all sin and transgressed You,
against our Lord and Saviour-Jesus Christ and against the Holy
Spirit. Some of us to a greater or lessor degree, some more than
others. But we are all sinners nonetheless.

Lord God, Almighty, we now asked of You, of our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit to forgive us, as individuals,
as individual families and collectively,for all our
sins and transgressions against You, against our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Christ and against the Holy Spirit and to remove these sins
and transgressions from within our hearts, our minds, our bodies,
our spirit and our souls, and to give us peace of mind and to
comfort us. And Father God, when the time has come for us,
as individuals, as individual families and or collectively depart
this earthly life, we ask of You, we beg of You, we pray to You,
we cry out to You, to give us peace and rest.

We asked these things of You, of our Lord and Saviour- Jesus Christ
and of the Holy Spirit, in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Christ, who with His blood on that wooden cross on Calvary's
Hill, has paid our sin debt in full. Amen and Amen!!
-Chang

"What man is there among you, who if his son asks
for bread, will give him a stone."
Matthew 7:9

.......By an unknown author.....

I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked God for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn to obey.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power and the praise of men;
I was given weakness to sense my need for God.
I asked as for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for;
In spite of myself, my prayers were answered -
I am among all men most richly blessed.

...............THANK YOU GOD-3..............

We thank you God for all those things that you have
done for us all and for all those things that you
have provided us with, which, as individuals, as individual
families and or collectively, we are able to call our
earthly possessions and or consider as being material to
us in this Earthly Life.
And we want to expand upon this, and thank You God for
-All the food and drinks you have provided us with over
the years and for those you are providing us with now.
-For giving us the ability to use and enjoy these food
and drinks,
-For making them available to us,
-And for giving us the means and abilities to obtain them.

(And Father God, we ask of You to continue to make these
food and drinks available to us, to continue to give us
the abilities to use and enjoy them and to continue to give
us the means and abilities to obtain them.
For Father God, we have come to realize, that without You
giving us the abilities to use and enjoy these food and drinks,
without You making them available to us, and without You
giving us the means and abilities to obtain them, we would
not have been able to live and enjoy the life we have lived
and enjoyed in the past, nor would we be able to live and
enjoy the quality of life we have lived and enjoyed in the
past or the quality of life we are enjoying now, in the future.)

We Thank You God,
For the different means of transportation You have provided
us with over the years, including those we now own and or
using, and those that are available to own and to use.

(And Father God, we ask of You to continue to provide us
with all the different means of transportations as You may
seem fit, and to bless these and all who uses them; and we
ask of You, to let none that uses these get into any accidents,
and or suffer any injuries or cause others to get into
accisents or suffer injuries .We ask all this of You in the
precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and leave
the rest to You, to do according to You willing, for Father
God, we come to realize that You, Lord God, knows what is
best for this earth, all humankind, as individuals, as
individual families and or collectively.

We thank You God for:

- Our individual and our family homes.
- Our individual and family wealth and riches. However much
or however little those may be.
- Our jobs, our education, our status in society.
- The different lifestyles that we live,
- The different types of food that we eat and drink,
- The different type of clothes that we wear,
- The different means of transportation that we use,
- The different type of homes that we live in.

We thank You God for the many times You have remove the wars
the famines, the pestilences, the droughts and the floods,
and the many other disasters that have existed on this
earth.
(And Father God, we ask of You to continue to remove wars,
the famines, the pestilences, the droughts and the floods
and the many disasters, from wherever the now exist and
from wherever they may turn up in the future.
All in accordance with Your willing and as You may seem
fit. For Lord God, we realize that may have and may allow wars
famines, pestilences, droughts and floods, and many other disasters
because of humankind uncaring actions and never ending greed
and and envy and because of our varying quest for power.

We thank You God for:

- All these things and for all those other things that
You have done for us and given to us in the past, for those
that You are doing for us and providing us with now;
and for all those other things that you have done for us
and provided us in the past
all of which are too numerous to
mention and or too numerous to remember;
- And for all these things, and for all those other things
that You have done for us and given to us in the past,
and for all these and all those things that you are doing
and or providing us with now; all of which we have,
individually or collectively taken so much for granted
that we fail to recongize, realize, acknowledge, accept
that You Lord God, has provided these to us.

And Father God, we also come to realize, that all that which
You have done for us and given to us in the past and those
things that You are doing for us and providing us with now,
as individual and or individual families and collectively
could have been much more, but for our Greed and Envy, and
becuase we have failed to give thanks to You, to our Lord and
Saviour-Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit.

Lord God Almighty, on behalf of all humankind, we now give thanks
to You, Lord God, to our Lord and Saviour- Jesus Christ and
to the Holy Spirit for all that You have done for us,
and have provided with in the past, all that You are doing
for us and providing us with now; and for all that which You will
do for us and provide us with in the future. We give thanks
in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour- Jesus Christ. Amen
-Chang

.....THANK YOU GOD - 2.............

We thank You God for all that You have provided us with.
We thank You for good health and strength.
The wisdom and understanding, the ability to learn,
to love, to procreate, to survive, to make things.
To see, to hear, to smell to taste; to feel, to talk and
communicate, to walk and to walk upright, to use our hands
and all the other limbs and muscle in our bodies,
to sleep, to wake, to eat, to drink and to excrete
the waste from our bodies; to be happy to be sad, to think,
to choose, to pray to You, to our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ
as being taught by Your messengers and by our Lord and Saviour-
Jesus Christ;
and all the other abilities you have so mercifully
provide us, as individuals, as individual families, and
collectively, with.

We thank You Lord, for showing us the things You will
have us do, to help us to to recognise those things, to embark in
doing those things and to succeed in doing them in a
righteous and proper manner.

We thank You God for leading us all on the road to righteousnes,
for giving us, the knowledge, the wisdom and understanding,
the health and strength,to courage, the faith and trust in
You, in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit,
the willingness to recognize, admit, and confess our sins and
transgression against You, against our Lord and Saviour-Jesus Christ,
and against the Holy Spirit; and to repent for those sins and
transgressions; the help, the conscience and compassion, the confidence
and the competence, the blessings, the guidance and protection,
the contentment, the commitment and conviction, the humility
the gratitude and generousity. the kindness and the caring,the
tolerance and the patience and all the other
abilities and guidance that we require to continously
seek that road out,to find it, to recognise it, to walk along that
road and to encourage one another to do so, so that one day
we may all walk in the outstretched, loving and forgiving arms
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who will lead us all
into Your Kingdom. Amen and Amen!!
Chang.

"Almighty and Everlasting God
I thank You for everything You have given us all
I thank You for life
I thank You for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
Your only begotten Son, whom You have sent on this earth
to offer Salvation to all of humankind,
only to see Him being brutally crucified by those of us
who did not, or who do not, believe in Him.
But Father God,even as He hung there, on that wooden cross
on the Hills of Calvary, He still found it in His heart
to ask You to forgive us for all of our sins.
I thank You for our wives or husbands, our sons and or our
daughters, our mothers and or our fathers, our sisters and
our brothers and for the fellowship of all humankind.

I thank You, Lord God for all the goodness, mercies and
blessings that Thou has bestowed on us all.
I thank you for the air we breathe,
The food that we eat,
The waterthat we drink,
The clothes that we wear,
The homes that we live in.
The sun,
The moon,
The stars,
Te skies above
The rain,
The snow,
The clouds,
The ozone layer.

I thank You God for the Jungle,
The forest,
The trees,
The vines,
The ferns,
The lillies,
The grass,
And all the different plant life that You
have put on this earth.
I thank You, of the fruits and vegatables of all of these,
their flowers, their leaves,their stems, their branches, their
barks,their trunks, their roots, their seeds and everything
the all produce and for the purposes they are fulfilling.

Thank You God, for the Mountains,
The peaks
The hills,
The cliffs,
The ridges,
The palteau,
The slopes,
The valleys,
The pastures,
The landscape,
The soil of the land
The desert,
The sand,
The caves, the crators
And everything the all produce, and for the
purpose they are fulfilling.

I thank you God,
For the rain,
The snow,
The ponds,
The stream,
The brook,
The glen,
The trenches,
The creeks,
The lakes,
The river,
The sea,
The ocean
And everything the all produce and for the
purpose that they are fulfilling.

I thank You God
For the animals.
The insects,
The birds,
The fowls,
The fish and the reptiles,
and all creatures large or small,
And everything they all produce and the purpose
they are fulfilling.

I thank You God
For all the other things that You have put on this
earth;
Some of which humankind may have misused in the past
and may continue to misuse in the future,
Some of which humankind have put to good use in the
past and may continue to do so in the future,
and some of which humankind do not even know exists;
some of which humankind are unaware of their use and purpose.
But You Lord God, knows:
WHAT You have put and provided this earth with in the past,
WHAT You are providing it with now, and
WHAT You will provide it with in the future.
HOW You have provided these things in the past,
HOW You are providing these things now, and
HOW You will provide these things in the future.
WHY You have provided these things in the past,
WHY You are providing these things now, and
WHY You will provide these things in the future.
WHEN You have provided these things in the past, and
WHEN You will provide these things in the future.
WHERE You have provided these things in the past
WHERE You are providing these things now,
WHERE You will provided these things in the future.

And Father God, I asked of You, to continue to provide
all of these things, all according to Your will,
and to allow humankind to use all of these things,
all according to willing and as You may seem fit,
and by whom you seem fit; for Father God, I come to
realize that You, Lord God, knows what is best, for this
earth, for all humankind and all things and creatures
upon this earth.

I thank You for the Ten Commendments, which You have
have given Moses, to bring down from the mountain, to share
with all of humankind, so All may know that these are Your
Commandments, to be obeyed and by which our everyday life
should be governed.
And even though humankind may have tinkered with these in the
past and may continue to do so in the future,
they have survived the times, and will continue to survive
for generations to come.

I give Thanks to You, to Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ
and to the Holy Spirit, in the precious name of our Lord and
and saviour-Jesus Christ.
Chang