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October 2006 |
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Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
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Something to think about....
If you judge people, you
have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa Wednesday as I hustled through my morning, running chores, I decided to stop at McDonald's and grab a cheeseburger and cup of coffee.
As I approached the door,
I realized a young man somewhere between the late teens and early
twenties was hurrying toward the door from a different angle. I knew we
were going to reach the door almost at the same time, and I also knew
that he looked like he was in a very big hurry and, in my mind, trying
to beat me to the door.
I'd better just slow
down and let him have it or he'll run over me trying to get ahead, I
thought.
But as I stepped up onto the sidewalk and he reached the door, he swung the door open wide and said, "After you, ma'am."
As is my custom when a man
opens a door for me, I looked him in the eyes, smiled my biggest smile,
and thanked him.
"You're welcome, ma'am,"
he said, and we approached the cashier with me just a little ahead of
him. As I got to the counter, I stepped aside and told him to go ahead.
"Oh, no ma'am, you go right ahead," he said. So I did.
After getting my food, I sat down in a spot where there was nobody else around so I could think about a couple of things I wanted to do. In a few minutes, I looked up and the young man was walking toward me, heading for the door. He'd gotten his food to go. But he stopped at my table and said, "I appreciate your generosity up at the counter, but where I come from ladies always go first."
I thanked him again and
told him to have a wonderful day.
"And you, too, ma'am. God
bless you." And he was gone.
As I sat and thought about what had happened I had to feel ashamed of my first wrong judgment of this young man. I'd assumed he was hurrying to the door to get ahead of me, but he was hurrying to the door to open it for me.
While I was busy judging
him, he was busy showing me an act of love.
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A Word From Pat Ah...October. I still think this is my favorite month of the year. For those of us in the U.S., the temperature is cooling down, and the "feel" of fall is in the air.
Have you ever noticed
how quiet October is? The next time you're outside, if you have the chance
to be out of the hustle and bustle of city life, take a moment and just
listen. The birds have gone eerily quiet. The noise of the summer cicadas
and locusts have stopped, and other than an occasional cricket or a bird
that decides to break the silence, everything is still. Almost as if
waiting for the pending cold weather that is just around the corner. At
least, that's the way it is in my neck of the woods. I love to just sit
and listen to the silence.
I can't wait to play
in the leaves with my grandchildren.
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Weighty Matters But when I told her what I was doing, Sandy mentioned that the website her articles are on has gone through some editing and there are now some inaccuracies in the articles. So for that reason, I'm not going to use the articles in this section. But I still highly recommend that you read them.
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Reader Review of the
Month Editor's Note: We're now featuring reader reviews of Pat's books in The Queen's Proclamation. Post a review at an online bookstore, magazine, or public website and email us at proclamation @ pearlsong.com to let us know, and we'll consider yours for inclusion in The QP. This month's Reader Review of Wanted: One Groom was posted at Amazon.com & Barnesandnoble.com by C.L. Yanda. Wow ~ every woman's fantasy comes to life. Pat
Ballard has done it again...she has given me a book to read and a fantasy
to hope for! I fell in love with her character, Matt, from the very
beginning. Many of us women remember being a teenager and having a crush
on a rock star only to have it never materialize into anything more than a
silly crush when we look back on it. Hanna Rockwell has hers come true
through no doing of her own. Hanna needs to be married by the time she is
30 or she will lose her inheritance and her home will be lost. Hanna
doesn't feel attractive because she isn't a size 6 and she's been told by
her mother and brother all of her life that she needs to lose weight.
Along comes Matt Corbett, the has-been rock star who is recently bankrupt,
to her rescue. Hanna doesn't even meet Matt until their wedding day. At
the alter, we find Matt..."As he gazed down at her upturned face,
awareness dawned on him. He was irrevocably, deeply in love with Hanna
Rockwell!" What woman alive hasn't wished for a man to feel this way about
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Pat regularly guests on the Health At
Every Size show with Dr. Peggy Elam on WRFN Radio Free Nashville.
Check the show blog at
http://www.healthateverysize.info for mentions of Pat's next guest
appearance. The show is streamed live
over the Internet 10-11 a.m. CST Mondays and now can also be
listened to live over your phone via the Mobile Broadcast Network.
To listen through
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www. mymbn.com (the Mobile Broadcast
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Registering is required to use this service, but there's no charge for it.
(Your usual long distance and/or cell phone charges will apply.) After
registering, call the Mobile Broadcast Network at 615-727-9201 from
a registered phone number. Select "1" from the menu options. Enter
the Radio Free Nashville code―9989―with your keypad. Listen and
enjoy! Pat will spend the next few months promoting Abigail's Revenge. She's in the process of setting up booksignings with local Borders bookstores, and others. You can still hear the taped radio shows from Size Matters with Veronica, WCRS Radio, on Pat's website.
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