Comments on: From My Loving Little Ang http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/ It's more wonderful than you can imagine! Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lisa Perry http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6197 Lisa Perry Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:26:31 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6197 Hi Doug, I just love you more and more as I read your heart. You did exactly the right thing by voicing your feelings of frustration. I've certainly asked God, What the Hell? so many times! One thing I finally had to come to terms with is I will never understand but I can trust! I have a choice. I can either continue to be angry at what I don't understand or as your brother believes and isn't afraid to tell us all :) I can trust in His perfect love. It really is the best choice Doug but it comes at its own time for each of us. You'll get there when you're suppose to and until you do please know that screaming at God really is okay. In fact, I'd say it can be quite helpful for a spell. Luv ya more than words can say Lisa Hi Doug, I just love you more and more as I read your heart. You did exactly the right thing by voicing your feelings of frustration. I’ve certainly asked God, What the Hell? so many times! One thing I finally had to come to terms with is I will never understand but I can trust! I have a choice. I can either continue to be angry at what I don’t understand or as your brother believes and isn’t afraid to tell us all :) I can trust in His perfect love. It really is the best choice Doug but it comes at its own time for each of us. You’ll get there when you’re suppose to and until you do please know that screaming at God really is okay. In fact, I’d say it can be quite helpful for a spell.

Luv ya more than words can say

Lisa

]]> By: Mindy http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6187 Mindy Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:20:11 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6187 DOUG, I have asked the same question even though I know the answer. Audrey is right. Out of this we will recognize the truth from the illusion. Dad's life is so much more than this. DOUG,
I have asked the same question even though I know the answer. Audrey is right. Out of this we will recognize the truth from the illusion. Dad’s life is so much more than this.

]]> By: Audrey NZ http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6183 Audrey NZ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:24:13 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6183 Doug, the circumstances of life are there to teach us something of the life 'in the spirit', if we will but allow it, submitting to it. This is not for Cliff, but for you. Out of it you will recognize the truth from the illusion, and this is what your heart is beginning to show you. It's great that you are questioning your god, because the answer will come, not from the sky from that make-believe imposter that our minds imagined, but from inside your heart. This is the TRUTH that Cliff discovered, that he wants you to find for yourself, and you won't find it anywhere but IN YOUR HEART. My love to Cliff and all his family Doug, the circumstances of life are there to teach us something of the life ‘in the spirit’, if we will but allow it, submitting to it. This is not for Cliff, but for you. Out of it you will recognize the truth from the illusion, and this is what your heart is beginning to show you. It’s great that you are questioning your god, because the answer will come, not from the sky from that make-believe imposter that our minds imagined, but from inside your heart. This is the TRUTH that Cliff discovered, that he wants you to find for yourself, and you won’t find it anywhere but IN YOUR HEART. My love to Cliff and all his family

]]> By: DOUG http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6182 DOUG Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:06:18 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6182 My wonderful wife of 39 years, knowing me as only she dose, ask me with her raised eyebrow, to maybe not post anything on here tonight. The reason she ask me that is because she could since an anger in my heart, a confusion, a frustration, a demanding need to fix and protect. So i will do like i have always done, and tomorrow she will be my buddy and my partner , but tonight i have a question cursing through my veins and burning my heart. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING GOD?" My wonderful wife of 39 years, knowing me as only she dose, ask me with her raised eyebrow, to maybe not post anything on here tonight. The reason she ask me that is because she could since an anger in my heart, a confusion, a frustration, a demanding need to fix and protect.
So i will do like i have always done, and tomorrow she will be my buddy and my partner , but tonight i have a question cursing through my veins and burning my heart.

“WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING GOD?”

]]> By: DOUG http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6181 DOUG Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:26:11 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6181 Visited with Cliff today and he was having kinda a rough day when i was there. Just kinda wanting to lay on Th sofa, and snooze off and on, but i had to laugh a bit because his three dog thought this was unacceptable. It kinda reminded me of when we were young Dads trying to catch a little nap on the sofa on a sunday afternoon and our kids would pester us to get up and go out and toss the ball with them or play with them any way. Each one of them dogs would jump on that sofa in a dead run , starting at his feet and not stopping till they bounced off the top of his head and hit the floor again. He would half heartedly swat at them but then rub there heads with a pure and sweet love. "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ,ever the same." Flavia Weedn Good nite bro Visited with Cliff today and he was having kinda a rough day when i was there. Just kinda wanting to lay on Th sofa, and snooze off and on, but i had to laugh a bit because his three dog thought this was unacceptable. It kinda reminded me of when we were young Dads trying to catch a little nap on the sofa on a sunday afternoon and our kids would pester us to get up and go out and toss the ball with them or play with them any way.
Each one of them dogs would jump on that sofa in a dead run , starting at his feet and not stopping till they bounced off the top of his head and hit the floor again. He would half heartedly swat at them but then rub there heads with a pure and sweet love.

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ,ever the same.” Flavia Weedn

Good nite bro

]]> By: Lisa Perry http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6178 Lisa Perry Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:30:35 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6178 lol Doug, that is so cool. I'm sitting here with an A&W as I was reading what you had written. Also, my two little grands are on there way. They live about 3 hours away. They are 18 months and 3 years old and I could so relate to your story. There's really nothing like em!!! Luv ya cuz lol Doug, that is so cool. I’m sitting here with an A&W as I was reading what you had written. Also, my two little grands are on there way. They live about 3 hours away. They are 18 months and 3 years old and I could so relate to your story. There’s really nothing like em!!! Luv ya cuz

]]> By: DOUG http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6177 DOUG Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:00:56 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6177 This day, April 13, 2009 will forever be remembered by me as "Root Beer Day". I awoke today to a cold rainy blustery gray day. The kind of day that makes you want to just wrap a warm blanket around you , get that third cup of hot coffee, and read a book or watch an old movie, but instead I prepared myself for work as normal. I only have at this time one grandchild, his name is, Andrew Wesley Purcell, therein lies the nick name Root Beer (A&W) which i rarely use in front of his mother. He is 22 months old , above average intelligence, a bit prettier then most babies, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. His one great love is to play with anything that has buttons or knobs. When he visits, my remote control is called his beep-beep and i usually spend hours getting my TV to function right after he leaves. So it did not surprise me when after the ester egg hunt at Moms yesterday that he wanted to sit in my car and play with all the knob buttons and switches. I thought i had them all straightened out till i tried to start my car this morning and realize the headlight have been on all night. So thank you Andy, Papa has his third cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and an old copy of "Gone With The Wind". Happy Root Beer Day.. This day, April 13, 2009 will forever be remembered by me as “Root Beer Day”. I awoke today to a cold rainy blustery gray day. The kind of day that makes you want to just wrap a warm blanket around you , get that third cup of hot coffee, and read a book or watch an old movie, but instead I prepared myself for work as normal.
I only have at this time one grandchild, his name is, Andrew Wesley Purcell, therein lies the nick name Root Beer (A&W) which i rarely use in front of his mother. He is 22 months old , above average intelligence, a bit prettier then most babies, and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. His one great love is to play with anything that has buttons or knobs. When he visits, my remote control is called his beep-beep and i usually spend hours getting my TV to function right after he leaves. So it did not surprise me when after the ester egg hunt at Moms yesterday that he wanted to sit in my car and play with all the knob buttons and switches. I thought i had them all straightened out till i tried to start my car this morning and realize the headlight have been on all night.
So thank you Andy, Papa has his third cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and an old copy of “Gone With The Wind”.

Happy Root Beer Day..

]]> By: DOUG http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6173 DOUG Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:35:25 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6173 There are my people as adults that do some extraordinary extreme things to add excitement to there lives. As adults we never really felt a need to jump out of air planes or dive off a bridge with a rubber band tied to our feet, cause we were as kids "Sassafras tree Divers". If you live in a woods or near one, and have young children , you might not want to let them hear this story, unless they have watched hours of old Tarzan movies. This woods across the gravel road from were we lived had sassyfras trees in it. They are a great tree, we would dig there roots and mom would make us sassyfras tea. The best tasting tea in the world. The best part of a sassafras tree is that they grow real fast. A sapling will grow 20-25 feet and only have a trunk diameter of two or three inches. To be a good sassyfras tree diver you would first have to find a regular tree that was in close proximity to a sassafras tree sapling, then you would climb the regular tree till you were as high or higher the the sassyfras tree. From that point you would need to shimmy far enough out on to a limb that you could dive to the top of the sassyfras tree top. After you found the courage to make the leap you only had three concerns, #1 that you grabbed the top of the tree, #2 That the tree had enough strength in its trunk to slow your fall as you rode it down , and#3 that its trunk didn't snap off. I know as your reading this that the Dads are saying, " oh holly hell, i want try that,and the Moms are saying if you ever let our kids read this you will sleep in the garage for a month", but remember that not one of us boys ever felt a need to dive out of a a perfectly good air plane. Good nite bro There are my people as adults that do some extraordinary extreme things to add excitement to there lives. As adults we never really felt a need to jump out of air planes or dive off a bridge with a rubber band tied to our feet, cause we were as kids “Sassafras tree Divers”.
If you live in a woods or near one, and have young children , you might not want to let them hear this story, unless they have watched hours of old Tarzan movies.
This woods across the gravel road from were we lived had sassyfras trees in it. They are a great tree, we would dig there roots and mom would make us sassyfras tea. The best tasting tea in the world. The best part of a sassafras tree is that they grow real fast. A sapling will grow 20-25 feet and only have a trunk diameter of two or three inches. To be a good sassyfras tree diver you would first have to find a regular tree that was in close proximity to a sassafras tree sapling, then you would climb the regular tree till you were as high or higher the the sassyfras tree. From that point you would need to shimmy far enough out on to a limb that you could dive to the top of the sassyfras tree top. After you found the courage to make the leap you only had three concerns, #1 that you grabbed the top of the tree, #2 That the tree had enough strength in its trunk to slow your fall as you rode it down , and#3 that its trunk didn’t snap off.
I know as your reading this that the Dads are saying, ” oh holly hell, i want try that,and the Moms are saying if you ever let our kids read this you will sleep in the garage for a month”, but remember that not one of us boys ever felt a need to dive out of a a perfectly good air plane.

Good nite bro

]]> By: Lisa Perry http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6172 Lisa Perry Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:11:35 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6172 Awww Doug, thank you so much. You have no idea how much I needed to hear that. Mom is in beginning stages of Alzheimers and we're having some very difficult decisions to make and it made me think of dad and his two brothers and how all of their deaths were so sudden and such a shock but I'm finding out the alternative to that is no fun either. I've thought sooooo much lately about those three men and their wives and then also you three boys and your wives. How blessed we all are to have all of you in our lives. I'm trying to find a saturday the four of us kids and mom can come. I want to see you guys sooooo bad!! I love you so much and appreciate everything you share. Awww Doug, thank you so much. You have no idea how much I needed to hear that. Mom is in beginning stages of Alzheimers and we’re having some very difficult decisions to make and it made me think of dad and his two brothers and how all of their deaths were so sudden and such a shock but I’m finding out the alternative to that is no fun either.

I’ve thought sooooo much lately about those three men and their wives and then also you three boys and your wives. How blessed we all are to have all of you in our lives. I’m trying to find a saturday the four of us kids and mom can come. I want to see you guys sooooo bad!! I love you so much and appreciate everything you share.

]]> By: DOUG http://boldgrace.com/2009/04/12/from-my-loving-little-ang/comment-page-1/#comment-6171 DOUG Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:39:41 +0000 http://boldgrace.com/?p=588#comment-6171 Lisa, i don't know if you know this or not, but your Daddy offered to us, to come down there when we were young men, and we could have anything we needed, acres of woodland to harvest , catfish ponds , anything we needed, there was nothing more important to your daddy then family. My uncle Joe, paid for what collage education that i have, this family of ours came from three extraordinary men , and the women they married. i don't know were all the love we feel came from but i know a big part of it came from the women our dads married. Don'T know why i wanted to tell you that , but just wanted to share it cuz. Just got that lovin feelin tonight... Lisa, i don’t know if you know this or not, but your Daddy offered to us, to come down there when we were young men, and we could have anything we needed, acres of woodland to harvest , catfish ponds , anything we needed, there was nothing more important to your daddy then family. My uncle Joe, paid for what collage education that i have, this family of ours came from three extraordinary men , and the women they married. i don’t know were all the love we feel came from but i know a big part of it came from the women our dads married. Don’T know why i wanted to tell you that , but just wanted to share it cuz.

Just got that lovin feelin tonight…

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