Re: Paid in full / A GLASS OF MILK

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Dear Alice,

I am the very weepy type when it comes to such beautiful

stories. Thank you so much. It is so beautiful and touching. One

glass of milk.... You have an amazing heart and I love your posts so

very much!! This really touched my heart and I am sharing this with

many for it is such a symbol of goodness and love, similar to " pay it

forward " You are an angel on Earth! Love and light, LUNA

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> Paid in full / A GLASS OF MILK

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> One day, a poor boy who was selling newspapers from door to door to

pay his way through school.

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> He was homeless at the time, had little money, and was very hungry.

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> He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.

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> However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the

door.

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> Instead of a meal, he asked for a drink of water.

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> She thought he looked hungry, so she brought him a large glass of

milk.

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> He drank it slowly, and then asked, " How much do I owe you? "

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> " You don't owe me anything, " she replied. " Mother has always taught

us never to accept pay for kindness.

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> He said, " Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart. "

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> As Tim Baker left that house, he not only felt stronger physically,

but his faith in God was strengthened also.

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> He had been ready to give up and quit.

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> Ten years later, the young woman that helped Tim became critically

ill.

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> The local doctors were baffled with her illness.

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> They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in

specialists to study her rare disease.

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> Dr. Tim Baker was called in for the consultation.

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> When he heard the name of the town she came from, he went down the

hall of the hospital to her room.

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> Dressed in his doctor's gown, he went in to see her.

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> He recognized her at once.

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> He went back to the consultation room, and determined to do his

best to save her life.

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> Amazingly, while Tim was in school, he learned how to treat the

rare disease that she had.

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> He was going to give up school, until God spoke through that nice

young lady with a glass of milk.

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> From that day, he gave special attention to her case.

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> After a long struggle, the battle was won.

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> Dr. Tim Baker requested from the business office to pass the final

billing to him for approval.

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> He looked at it, and then wrote something on the edge, and the bill

was sent to her room.

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> She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of

her life to pay for it all.

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> Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side

of the bill.

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> She read these words:

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> " PAID IN FULL WITH ONE GLASS OF MILK.... (Signed) Dr. Tim Baker. "

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> Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed:

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> " Thank You, God, for telling me to plant seeds into people, even

when I didn't see a field in my own life. "

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> " Thank You God, that Your love has spread broad through human

hearts and hands. "

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> " If you give anything, give with SINCERITY and KINDNESS; you never

know who will be on the other side of the gift in the future.

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> There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the

waters comes back to you.

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> The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at

the least expected time.

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> If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the

world a better place - And after all, isn't that what life is all

about?

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