Neat food (?) For Thought/ not rls???

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Hi Group!

Thought you all would like this little bit of uplifting (no pun

intended...lol)philosophy for those days when we are hurting/walking the

floor/ticked at the world.....etc!!

>Subject: Keep your fork

>

>There was a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer and had been given

>3 months to live.

>Her Dr. told her to start making preparations to die. So she contacted

>her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of

>her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at the

>service, what scriptures she would like read, and what she wanted to be

>wearing.

>The woman also told her pastor that she wanted to be buried with her

>favorite Bible. Everything was in order and the pastor was preparing to

>leave when she suddenly remembered something very important.

> " There's one more thing. " She said excitedly. " What's That? " came the

>pastor's reply.

> " This is very important " The woman continued.

" I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand. " The pastor stood

>looking at the woman not knowing quite what to say.

" That shocks you doesn't it? " The woman asked.

" Well to be honest, I'm puzzled by the request. " said the pastor.

The woman explained. " In all my years of attending church socials and

>functions where food was involved, my favorite part was when whoever was

>clearing away the dishes of the main course would lean over and say " you

>can keep your fork " . It was my favorite part because I knew that

>something better was coming. When they told me to Keep my fork I knew

>that something great was about to be given to me. It wasn't Jell-O or

>pudding. It was cake or pie. Something with substance.

>So I just want people to see me there in the casket with a fork in my

>hand and i want them to wonder " What's with the fork " Then I want you

>to tell them: " Something better is coming so keep your fork too "

>The pastor's eye's were welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the

>woman goodbye. he knew this would be one of the last times he would see

>her before her death.

>But he also knew that that woman had a better grasp of heaven than he

>did. She KNEW that something was coming.

>So the next time you reach down for your fork, let it remind you oh so

>gently that there is something better coming.

>BJ

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BJN

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