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I would have given to be as cool as them.

Such was the thought of this little brother was Tom. Five years my senior. Most want to emulate his nickname, moose three SmartStart Kennedy high school, my 10-year-old eyes fifth-grader, 15, or almost as well been Paul Bunyan, he could do it all. What does this have to do with the most prayer asking if you ever wondered whether God is listening to your prayers. Wonder the same high school sophomore praying that the cute energetic cheerleader fall head over heels for me.

I was a shy bashful teenager.

It didn't happen didn't answer my prayer. It turned out the children. I had very little in common. I also remember the petitioner may perform a varsity hockey games to score a goal.

Goal does happen didn't grant that prayer request either score moguls and I deserve my prayer asking that God gave me over my fear of public speaking certainly didn't answer that one.

The way I had hoped 58 years. I still shivered at the thought starter attempting to speak in public settings was answered. This leads me to the prayer that got answered for me without a doubt my most prayer back to the table. Fifth-grader is 15-year-old oldest brother was never in our basement in the middle of an All-Star list could not believe my eyes. Performing a listing of all of us sitting out the cobwebs standing there and his head and something that I moose was indeed large and Paul Bunyan. He was a giant after all. My mind right then and there. Thus was born forward prayers with his biggest moose prayer night after night year after year. I was relentless I wanted more than anything because my big brother is prayer for a good five or six years leading up but we don't have a lot of tall jeans and a family pushing 60, petite 5'5" monotonous brothers at 511. Most of them are still trying to be 6 feet 6'2" big, strong, powerful and athletic.

Indeed testimony somehow I grew to be 66 inches that happen.

I don't know for sure was my favorite food I doubt it.

Coincidence, maybe an answer to my most prayer, I think, quite possibly yes, for God tells us asking you will receive seek and you will find knock and it will be opened unto you. I certainly has to be tall with passion over and over again for me. I believe God chose to answer my prayer and then some. This way of telling me do not doubt that faith, I hear you answer your prayers. This knowledge he has given me this faith certainly well over the years my faith is tested and doubt creeps into my mind as to whether God cares and is listening. I need to look no further than my 6'6" frame is a reminder that yes God does listen here and he does want me to talk to him. Microsoft changed since I was a teenager instead of a laundry list of things to ask God for spend more time talking with God listening to him quite time together one on one conversing. As a father myself precious time is with your sons and daughters father would not want to have a conversation with this child after my kids moved out of the house and I became 90. Nestor days I get a phone call from them became my best days. It made no difference to me recently called sometimes to say hi and to tell me they love me sometimes, was to discuss initiative having to ask for some fatherly advice. Sometimes that you can't question something I was doing. I cherished each and every one of these conversations. Precious time together is priceless fathers I have learned. Of course want what is best for the children wanting to ask and I can surely imagine the same goes with our heavenly father. I also learned much of this for my own father. He asked me once weekly Sunday night sessions to define prayer. I struggled with an answer.

Thought I knew what it was but I couldn't articulate it. He sent me to go look it up member where I found the answer he was looking for. When I came back and I said prayer is talking to God with love. He said that's correct, never forget it.

But more than a definition from the dead to pray from the formal prayers in the rosary to be unselfish and prayers praying for others rather than myself just as he did. The family has been blessed over and over. Thanks in large part, I'm sure it was unending prayers.

I'm pretty sure my dad's most prayer had nothing to do with himself what to do with talking to God with love about helping others.

So this begs the question, who is your moose you want to emulate what is your most prayer about it with love. I'm convinced he's looking forward very much to talking with you and he will listen to you, he will answer your prayers and a great job as always by Greg and a special thanks to Paul in Minneapolis, Minnesota dear on our American stories to view of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do asking you to become a part of the all American stories family.

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The exact this project was no small feat in metamorphic sized into something far greater challenges for me sometimes culturally people sometimes business plan expectations to work long hours. Call came in like a bull in a china shop. But it turns out that with your background would be the perfect person to face the challenges ahead, enter all of them wanted to 10 years to get out and I combine together so we got the 21st century is strapped 13 construction team's nine dollars plan downtown Dallas project design document design. Make sure I challenges. It's kind of listening to the cofounder initiative museum story story you know Tory Jeep. We have such a special brought to you by near attack ODT. We recorded it radiused and Windows came down near attack ODT were not to plant 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still set an exciting event like window tango.

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Anyone who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare.

But today for reading.

That's all it would take Dr. Elliott's bookshelf was the right idea at the right time.

There was a public appetite for something like this is Dr. Robert Johnston thinking of a better life of capturing the American dream was not just about making money, buying a better house, but in fact becoming cultured to do that people realize that they wanted to be educated in a very broad way, later amended his estimation of the size of the bookshelf to 5 feet and his frequent references to this idea to name Dr. Elliott's 5 foot clear that this idea was anything Elliott never intended actually create sure it was consistent with his ideas about the value of liberal arts education for Elliott despite the bookshelf idea seems to be more of a rhetorical flourish than an actual intention, and it was going to make since you likely assume you never have to test the ability of his bookshelf to educate. That was until Peter Collier one of the nation's biggest publishers make this claim in a speech said Elliott yeah there was the publisher of Colliers itself is a weekly collection fiction sensation which feature prominent writers, including Jack London open Sinclair and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle, public first published in 18 88 x 18 92 was going to million homes in America. By the time Charles Elliott was publicly ruminating about his 5 foot bookshelf number going to happen. Why was there such a large audience for magazine like Colliers at this time was because the changing nature of work was creating something new in the labor force leisure time shifts instead of turning to a farm which operates essentially 24 hours a day shift so was as much of people working and working many hours working very hard did have the money was available to God and have genuine leisure opportunities in many ways the first time in a mass level. Read and now thanks to Peter Collier that something could make them more Charles Elliott called a cultivated man Harvard Classics.

Following on the great success of these mass inspection magazines. People like Peter Collier said why can't we do this for book series would be the same model the same demographic and people would love to grassy opportunity to get genuine liberal education Charles Elliott accepted Colliers challenge Elliott retirement along with several officers from Harvard and selecting works that were worthy of inclusion 5 foot bookshelf volume collection would be suitable 1909. Following Elliott's retirement from Harvard, began the list of works included that covered over 23,000 pages is too long to do justice to some of the authors, Plato, Cicero, John Milton St. Augustine Walt Whitman Shakespearean so many others.

Classics Charles Elliott's renown was central to this marketing several public statements like this one to advertise the Harvard Classics volume containing about to provide the means of obtaining such knowledge of ancient and modern literature of the 20th entry idea of a cultivated man in the visual presentation of the Harvard Classics was ingenious as well. Upon its release three distinct bindings were printed limited first edition run of 20,000 copies. Charles Elliott's watermark signature on every page deluxe limited edition Elliott edition signed by Charles Limited, 1000 sets and alumni addition deluxe the record, it is unclear what made this addition alumni to the buyers truly felt like a lecture published in crimson colored by Ms. everyone knew the color crimson seal was printed on the binding of visitors to the house of an owner of the Classics could identify the collection.

Most importantly, audience for this year to improve themselves. Harvard Classics promised the reader entrance and the status of cultivated man. The first two decades of the Harvard Classics publishing 350,000 full sets were sold, countless more were sold as Colliers continued to publish various additions until 1970 still find sets in American households today.

I grew up in a house with a full set on display, and where did we display it. Ironically 5 foot bookshelf in our bathroom. I'll let you insert joke there, but in the meantime, here again is Dr. Robert Johnston on the significance of the Harvard Classics. Is this idea that you can't have democracy without an educated citizenry and I think is actually much to have conditioning good working truly democratic society do need to have people who were well educated at a very mass series like the Harvard Classics were crucial to that. My family set up. The Harvard Classics was recently donated to a local high school educational goals. Dr. Elliott's 5 foot bookshelf seem like a pretty appropriate place for the Harvard Classics to be displayed. You can still find complete sets online in pretty good condition so if you have an empty 5 foot shelf available 15 minutes a day, maybe you want to get yourself a set of the Harvard Classics and a special thanks to John Elfman for some terrific storytelling. If you're lucky enough to be in his school history teacher in the public school system in Illinois and my goodness.

If we had more history teachers like this history would actually be interesting story to tell about Dr. Charles Elliott, and the shift from college's theology schools and schools. The classic liberal arts schools now. Well, whatever your opinion to what they are now in my goodness to read these classics and have them in one space and sell 350,000 of them complete series showed you the truth, of the appetite for the strivers. It wasn't just about money wasn't just about home was about culture to his leisure time to be able to read that the 20th century brought wealth to everybody. Farmers well who have the time work work work in the idea that we have this kind of time. One of the great great advances in world history Dr. Charles Elliott, the story of the Harvard Classics, and so much more here on our American story. Geico asks how would you love a chance to save some money on insurance. Of course you would when it comes to great rates on insurance. GEICO can help like with insurance for your car, truck, motorcycle, boat and RV even help with homeowners or renters coverage and easy-to-use mobile app available 24 hour roadside assistance and more. And GEICO is an easy choice switch today and see all the ways you can save it's easy. Simply go to Geico.com or contact your local agent today, nearly 60,000 women diagnosed with uterine cancer cancer talk to a doctor about your family about their cancer history, uterine cancer symptoms leading is unusual for you, because treatment is most effective with an early appointment to your doctor if you have any concerns your body is important for the campaign to learn more