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TOMAS: So you would like to open to the group a [[discussion]] on how their ministries have worked and [[compare]] notes? An excellent [[idea]].

TOMAS: So you would like to open to the group a [[discussion]] on how their ministries have worked and [[compare]] notes? An excellent [[idea]].

Mrs. M: That would be a discussion I would be pretty interested in, especially since I'm going to see all these relatives in January. They're all coming to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania Pittsburgh] for the second part of a [[funeral]].

Mrs. M: That would be a discussion I would be pretty interested in, especially since I'm going to see all these relatives in January. They're all coming to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania Pittsburgh] for the second part of a [[funeral]].

TOMAS: I trust that that is a [[mortal]] situation.

TOMAS: I trust that that is a [[mortal]] situation.

There are people who always have to tell a [[joke]]. You could become a [[storyteller]] and always have to tell this story of those who are in your [[debt]], and then as you tell your tale, you may capture them, entertain them and open up an avenue for their [[understanding]] in the [[process]]. It is an affectation, yes, but it is also a conscious contact with someone who has crossed your [[path]]. If you have a [[desire]] to serve, if you wish to be able to affect people, if you regret after the [[fact]] that you were not able to do more, you might develop such a [[technique]] as telling a [[story]].

There are people who always have to tell a [[joke]]. You could become a [[storyteller]] and always have to tell this story of those who are in your [[debt]], and then as you tell your tale, you may capture them, entertain them and open up an avenue for their [[understanding]] in the [[process]]. It is an affectation, yes, but it is also a conscious contact with someone who has crossed your [[path]]. If you have a [[desire]] to serve, if you wish to be able to affect people, if you regret after the [[fact]] that you were not able to do more, you might develop such a [[technique]] as telling a [[story]].

Mrs. M: Well, I had an [[experience]] on the plane that was [[wonderful]], and it made me feel as if God [[the Father]] was very close, and that is that we had to take the last two seats, the last three seats on the way to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois Chicago], and I just knew that I was going to meet somebody wonderful. I took the first seat that I saw and I sat next to the most [[magnificent]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American Afro-American] woman named Vicki and she and I talked all the way about our [[ideas]] about God and it was a wonderful encounter. It was a really wonderful [[moment]] in my life, and I thought she too was [[feeling]] that way. And she told me, "Thank you for talking with me, because otherwise I was just going to review my [[work]], which I already reviewed three or four times, because I'm nervous about a presentation, and I'm so glad I didn't do it and talked to you instead," so it was an absolutely wonderful moment of closeness.

Mrs. M: Well, I had an [[experience]] on the plane that was [[wonderful]], and it made me feel as if God [[the Father]] was very close, and that is that we had to take the last two seats, the last three seats on the way to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois Chicago], and I just knew that I was going to meet somebody wonderful. I took the first seat that I saw and I sat next to the most [[magnificent]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American Afro-American] woman named Vicki and she and I talked all the way about our [[ideas]] about God and it was a wonderful encounter. It was a really wonderful [[moment]] in my life, and I thought she too was [[feeling]] that way. And she told me, "Thank you for talking with me, because otherwise I was just going to review my [[work]], which I already reviewed three or four times, because I'm nervous about a presentation, and I'm so glad I didn't do it and talked to you instead," so it was an absolutely wonderful moment of closeness.

TOMAS: I am glad of the [[experience]] for both of you. I [[reflect]] back on a lesson of not long ago having to do with [[merciful]] ministry and yet I [[perceive]] this situation was not so much a ministry as a [[comfort]] and a [[sharing]] of [[peers]].

TOMAS: I am glad of the [[experience]] for both of you. I [[reflect]] back on a lesson of not long ago having to do with [[merciful]] ministry and yet I [[perceive]] this situation was not so much a ministry as a [[comfort]] and a [[sharing]] of [[peers]].