FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 - SPIRITUAL FOCUS

 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 - SPIRITUAL FOCUS

Two old stories - where LOVE WINS!!!  

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First - blatantly borrowed from the web!!

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello, Pooh. Hello Piglet," said Eeyore, in a Glum-Sounding Voice.

"We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

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Have you ever sat with a friend - just being there?  Maybe the person was sick, maybe dying, But, you were there - FOR THEM!!

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WARM FUZZIES

(Also from the web)

The Story of Warm Fuzzies

Once upon a time, there was a lovely place called “Warm Fuzzy Land “In this land people felt free to give warm fuzzies to one another.

Warm Fuzzies were little balls of pure love that made everyone feel good all over. Back in the day, all you had to do was ask for a Warm Fuzzy.

People would reach into their pockets and grab a handful of Warm Fuzzies and give them to you. 

Everyone was generous and there was never a shortage of Warm Fuzzy feelings to go around.

Everyone felt safe and loved and made everyone else feel safe and loved.

But one day a wicked elf showed up in the Land of Warm Fuzzies. When people began to give him Warm Fuzzies he did not like it.

They were the opposite of what he kept in his pocket, the mean cold prickles.

He began telling people that there was a huge shortage of Warm Fuzzies and they needed to hoard them. Well, people stopped giving away their Warm Fuzzies and hid them away or locked them up. They stopped carrying them around in their pockets too.

Soon, the entire land was angry and sad. People started to be mean to each other and say hateful things. They began to bully, yell, and become angry with one another. They hid in their houses and did not come out. The Land of Warm Fuzzies was renamed the Land of Cold Prickly.

One day a sad little boy was bored and began looking around the attic for something to play with. He stumbled upon a box of Warm Fuzzies that had been hidden for many years.

When he opened up the box he felt feelings of love, kindness, and warmth. He took the box to school with him the next day.

He gave a Warm Fuzzy to all the children in the school. They in turn took the Warm Fuzzy home and gave it to their parents. The parents remembered the boxes of Warm Fuzzies they had put away in their attics.

They all brought the boxes downstairs and opened them. The love, warmth, and kindness was so immense that the Land of Cold Prickles became the Land of Warm Fuzzies once again.

Everyone lived happily ever after and never gave up their Warm Fuzzies again!

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Do you give out Warm Fuzzies?  Don’t hoard being nice to everyone?

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LOVE WINS!!!

Karen Anne White, October 14, 2022, ©