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To: David fisk who wrote (15728)	5/15/1998 12:25:00 PM
From: David fisk	Respond to of 39621

Comedian Richard Pryor, critically burned in an accident, told Johnny Carson that when You're seriously ill, money isn't important. He said, "All I could think of was to call on God. I didn't call on the Bank of America once" - A Treasure Chest of Quotations for all Seasons David

To: David fisk who wrote (15728)	5/15/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: David fisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Despair and Death - A few years ago, the press carried a heartrending story of a young father who shot himself in a tavern telephone booth. James Lee had called a Chicago newspaper and told a reporter he had sent the paper a manila envelope outlining his story. The reporter frantically tried to trace the call, but was too late. When the police arrived the young man was slumped in the booth with a bullet through his head. In his pockets they found a child's crayon drawing, much folded and worn. On it was written, "Please leave in my coat pocket. I want to have it buried with me." The drawing was signed in childish print by his daughter, Shirley Lee, who had perished in a fire just five months before. Lee was so grief-stricken he had asked total strangers to attend his daughter's funeral so she would have a nice service. He said there was no family to attend, since Shirley's mother had been dead since the child was two. Speaking to the reporter before his death, the heartbroken father said that all he had in life was gone and he felt so alone. He gave his modest estate to the church Shirley had attended and said, "Maybe in ten or twenty years, someone will see one of the plaques and wonder who Shirley Ellen Lee was and say, 'Someone must have loved her very, very much."' The grieving father could not stand loneliness or the loss so he took his own life. He felt it better to be dead than live in an impersonal world. How many James Lees are there in this world? They don't wear signs saying "I'm lonely--will you help me?" Let's discover these in His name. --James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 319. ""And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'" (Mat 25:40 NKJV) David