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From: MSN NicknameChrissie511  (Original Message)Sent: 6/24/2006 8:08 AM
Our friend Barbara Leavitt loved flowers. Her home was a garden of rare beauty and sweet fragrance, and so was her life.
Barbara went to be with the Lord in 2005, but something happened a few days before she died that I will never forget. My wife and I were sitting at her bedside telling stories about our childhood when I mentioned that I had once stolen some flowers. There was a park between the elementary school I attended and our home. One day, while walking through the park, I saw a row of irises in bloom and cut several to take to my mother. Some older boys saw me and threatened to call the police. I lived in terror for weeks thinking they would come and take me away.
Barbara placed her hand over mine and murmured softly, I did that to. I thought, That should be my response when I see the sins of others or hear about them. Perhaps I'v not commited their particular sin, but all sin is blameworthy and requires God's forgiveness.
Awareness of our own depravity is what John Newton called " the root of perpetual tenderness. I don't want to be like the ungrateful servant in Matthew 18. I  want to be gracious and show mercy, for I did that too....
David roper
 
Teach me to feel another's woe, 
To hide the fault I see;
The mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.--Pope
 
We can show mercy to others because God has shown mercy to us. 



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From: MSN NicknamedalfrathSent: 6/24/2006 2:11 PM

Thanks for this awesome message.

God bless you.

dalfrath.


(Rom 12:1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

(Rom 12:2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.