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green’s contract should be the same as bennings or one extra year. if benning is let go, a new gm might want to bring in his own coach. imo, green has done a great job.
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i guess i did but i ended up selling my janitor business to my brother in law. i eventually sold my chimney cleaning business too. i believe i was always meant to work, helping others. i went from coaching baseball, my passion, to writing stories, to working with challenged people, to working with young offenders. not to toot my own horn but i think i was good at all those jobs. for several years, some of the young offenders would come back to smithers and look me up and say hi. the fellow who they were going to hire, was a native fellow i knew. i had finally found my niche in life.
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well, at least you know what love is now.
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no thanks, i just like writing stories about life. in the 80’s i wrote a sports/human interest column in our local paper. no pay, just to write what was going around in my head. strangely enough, some people really enjoyed my column weekly and even told me so. just a kid from vancouver.
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i was running both a janitor company and a chimney cleaning business but still felt unfulfilled. one day i made an appointment to interview for a job working with developmentally challenged adults. my appointment was at one o’clock but as my way i was early. it was lunch hour and these adults were out in the field. someone was hitting fly balls to them. i grabbed my glove from my car and asked them if i could join them. i was a pretty good player and had no trouble catching and throwing the ball. they asked me if i played in the majors. no i said but i’m the president of minor baseball in smithers. they gathered around me and hung on every word i said. i didn’t know at the time, but the administrater’s office looked over the field and he watched the happening intently. i guess he was impressed because he told me that they had already decided on who they would hire but changed their minds and hired me instead. i think he saw both my interest and how the adults seem to hang on my every word. it is what is inside your heart, i’m sure.
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they say if you condensed the bible down to one sentence, it would be, “do unto others as you’ld have them do unto you.” i try to live by that.
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i don’t know how to answer that except i always want the answers. i just have learn to develop the knowledge of telling the truthful answers.
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great post. i’ve been on a spiritual journey for 20 years, that i wouldn’t give up for any amount of money. all i know is on this journey, i’ve become a better person. still on it, still learning. i don’t push my beliefs on anyone. i use to hate people trying to push me into their beliefs. in the end i think god either talks to you or he doesn’t. right now a lady is typing out the journey i’ve been on, but only those that want to read it, will it be put in front of.
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i agree, i’ve always been selfish and even when i was doing a kindness to others, my motives where selfish. i did them because i felt good doing them. every thing people write on here, i’ve experienced in my own live. i’m still a baby when i come to understanding all the answers of life. i stumble along with everyone else. but i want to know the truth.
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there are so many stories out there that have been lost or on the cusp of being lost. i learned this, way too late in life. tell your stories to someone or write them down. don’t let them be lost.
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Everything is awful, but sometimes the universe is also okay
smithers joe replied to Putgolzin's topic in Off-Topic General
great heart felt story. my story, was really my mom’s story. we were very poor and mom who had, had rhumatic fever as a young girl suffered through many small heart attacks in her life. she had 11 kids but 5 died at birth or within their first years. mom was in the hospital a lot and dad had little work, ( the dirty thirties) decided to let another family adopt their daughter. i wasn’t even born yet. years later, we had all grown up, my other sister remembered her and started looking for her. well she found her living in yelm washington married and had 4 teenage kids. my sister didn’t even know she was adopted. that first meeting between my mother and sister, still brings tears to my eyes. oh the raw emotions. poor mother had lost 5 kids at birth and had a daughter taken away from her, i know she most have been heart broken. -
yes, we either come from monkeys via single cells or from aliens or from a stronger power. we all have to choose where we came from. it is still a guess.
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i understand what he is saying, i think we’ve all wondered that before. i think until we seek god, we will never understand his motives. i think of it as blind leading blind.
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i never liked that guy. if someone stubs their toes, he says, aliens used to stub their toes all the time. that is who we learned it from. he believes it so i guess it alright for him.
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great history lesson. i too would have love to know them and listen to their stories. one of my direct ancestors was cuthbert grant. he was the first leader of the first metis nation. the history books paint him as as a great man while others called him as a bad person. love your story boud.
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my mother had, had rheumatic fever as a young girl and suffered all life with a heart condition. she had 11 children but 5 of them died at birth or within their first year. mom was in the hospital a lot, while dad couldn’t find work ( the dirty thirties )he decided to adopt a daughter to another family. this was before i was born. years later when we were all adults, my sister remembered her sister and started looking for her. she eventually found her living in yelm washington she was married and had 4 teenage kids. she didn’t even know that she was adopted. every time i think of that first meeting between her and our mom, tears come to my eyes. mom endure so much heartache over her live, i believe it was her faith that got her through it. at least i think that is what she would have said.
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i guess it is my age but i had trouble understaning anything he sang.
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i’ve thought those things too and there is an answer. i found it in the book called the shack. i’ve found that it is us here on earth that are screwed up. well i can honestly say i was screwed up. now i’m a little less screwed up. religion didn’t help me but god did. i’m glad people share their thoughts and understanding of this topic. it wasn’t my intention to make this anymore than just a life’s story. others stories about their lives really interest me. i wish i could have asked my mother and father, their stories, but their gone and their stories with them.
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i can relate deb. when we moved to smithers, my son was 5 years old. he played with 2 boys in the neighbourhood, both church goers. he came home one day crying. he said doug’s mother told him he couldn’t play with him anymore because we weren’t christians. put a bad taste in my mouth. on the other hand eddies parents ask him if he wanted to go to church and took him a few times. i guess he lost interest and has never gone again. to me. i believe what really matters is what is in your heart. two families, two reactions. one showed scorn and discussed, the other one showed love and compassion. my greatest love was coaching little league baseball. i taught a lot of boys things that others had taught me when i was younger. i hope that some of those boys will teach others those things. like i said, it’s what is in your heart that matters.
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i agree lad, i just didn’t want this to turn into a god thread. my thought was sharing a story. i’m fully convicted in my faith. i remember the god thread that was here before and it got quite nasty. i didn’t like where it was going. if you want to talk privately about it, we could converse privately.
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my cult has been busy helping this dilapidated old man cope with aging. 4 came over and put a new roof on my garage, one lady shops for me, another cooks extra food and gives a couple of meals a week. one fellow took my rid-em-mower to his shop to fix it and another 3 cult members always make themselves available to drive me to appointments or where ever. i would not have as comfortable a life without them. at 82 going on97, i need all the help i can get. i.m thankful for my cult.
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while like politics, i don’t really believe a hockey board is the right place for either. in both people have strong opinions either for or against arguments. they seem to bring out the worst in people. rarely does one opinion change another’s. when i worked with young offenders, one staff member, went around telling the boys that the pope was the antichrist. i talked to the director. i said some of these boys parents may be catholic and even if they didn’t believe, how might it effect those boys? he kept trying to preach to the boys, but they tuned him out pretty quick.
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i believe in heaven and there are a lot of love one, i’m eager to see again, soon.
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i’m quite similar story i gave up on church early in lifer. had no use for it. we lived in a foster home. though we were catholic, they sent us to the united church my sister and us three brothers would spend our collection money on candies. after church, sis would give us the drift of the sermon, in case we were asked. we loved getting free money to spend. my sister would to to church. she is 89 now. only me and her left now.
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i didn’t write this to preach. i’m not a preacher but our lives are made up of many stories. i love hearing about other peoples stories that mean something to them. this is the first one i’ve written for at least a year. i always loved writing stories from life.