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To: gregor who wrote (2781)	6/24/2001 1:45:20 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14396

Gregor: Thanks. I have a neat "Prayer of Jabez story," (I refer to the book and the payer because God' has been expanding my territory ever since I started praying that prayer). I had a really favorable check-up (an annual routine physical) and the only thing that was out of the ordinary is that my blood pressure was borderline when it has always been about 114/70 (seriously). So, I had to go back the next week for a re-check. About a month ago, I saw this blind woman who could not walk and she was bumping into everything, and was about to get hit by a car. This was at Target, which I very rarely go to (maybe 5 times in the past ten years). I asked her if I could help her and she said, no she was training a seeing eye dog (who was not doing a good job). So this month, I was leaving my re-check for my blood pressure, that was back to normal. I ran right into the same woman, who was not finding her way around. This time, she told me I could take her to the valet (she was going to take a taxi), and I did not really realize until later that this was the woman from Target. I started talking to her on the way to the Valet. She told me she had been blind since birth and that was okay, she had that down perfectly, until she walked into an uncovered manhole and just about broke her back. Now, a year later, she can't walk. I told her that God must really love her to give her these two obstacles and that He would not give her more than she could handle. She said that she was a Christian. She was so happy and okay with what she had gone through. I dropped her off with the valet, and I told her that she was a motivation and an inspiration to others. She was. A little later that day, I realized that was the very same woman and God had placed her in my path again, in a totally different location. She was a real-life hero. She said she wanted to have a party in Heaven, because she will get to approach me and she will see. I thought that was a cool, uplifting story.