Nov.02.00: Light For The Day - "Papa's Sermon" -- 1 John 3:18  "Dear children of God, let us not love in word  or speech but in deed and in truth." ----------------- Busy in his study, a minister was preparing his sermon for the coming Sunday. He reached to the shelf at his side for a book, and then remembered that he had left it downstairs.  His little daughter was playing in the bedroom, and he called her. she came, running, eager and delighted at the thought that Papa needed her.  He explained carefully where she could find the book, and she went gladly, returning in a moment with a book which he saw at a glance was the  wrong one. But he hardly looked at the book as he took it and laid it on the table.  He looked only at the eager face of his daughter, wreathed in smiles. Gathering her close to his  heart, he kissed her and said, "Thank you, darling."  And when she had gone back happy and contented to her play he went quietly for the book he needed.  I think I should like to listen to the sermons that  man would preach. -- Unknown ---------------- -- 1 John 4:8  "He who does not love does not know God;  for God is love."