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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='min-width: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Larry Perry [mailto:larryperry@performancepress.ccsend.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Larry Perry<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 6, 2021 12:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> mmoore11@kent.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> EXT: TOMMY<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><span style='font-size:1.0pt'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=5342a653-88c8-4706-a7ef-f6c686410015&a=1103316066373&c=6f49fc70-74b9-11eb-9d75-fa163e24df6a&ch=6f4b0606-74b9-11eb-9d75-fa163e24df6a"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=610 style='width:457.5pt;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:11.25pt 3.75pt 11.25pt 3.75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='background:#869198;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#869198;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='background:#E6E6E6;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Letter from Larry</span></i><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#717A80'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#EB4C39;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:white'>Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:white'>June 6, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>Good Sunday Afternoon Everyone:</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>"FAILURE.... .. is the man who stays down when he falls."</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> Father John Powell, professor at Loyola University in</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> Chicago, writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>named Tommy. Here is his true story:</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#A20000'>TOMMY</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> </span><span style='color:#403F42'>Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked..</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> shoulders. It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> long. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my mind</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> that it isn't what's on your head but what's in it that counts; but on</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped. I immediately filed</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> Tommy under 'S' for strange...very strange.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>Tommy turned out to be the 'atheist in residence' in my Theology of</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God. We lived with</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> each other in relative peace for one semester, although I admit he was</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> for me at times a serious pain in the back pew.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>When he came up at the end of the course to turn in his final exam, he</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> asked in a cynical tone, <i>'Do you think I'll ever find God?'</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>I decided instantly on a little shock therapy.<i> 'No!' </i>I said</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> very emphatically.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>'Why not,' he responded, <i>'I thought that was the product</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> you were pushing.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>I let him get five steps from the classroom door and then called out,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> '<i>Tommy! I don't think you'll ever find Him, but I am absolutely</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> certain that He will find you!'</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'> He shrugged a little and left my class</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> and my life.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>I felt slightly disappointed at the thought that he had missed my</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> clever line -- He will find you! At least I thought it was clever.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> Later I heard that Tommy had graduated, and I was duly</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> grateful.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>Then a sad report came. I heard that Tommy had terminal</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> cancer. Before I could search him out, he came to see me. When he</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>walked into my office, his body was very badly wasted and the long </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>hair had all fallen out as a result of chemotherapy. But his eyes were</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> bright and his voice was firm, for the first time, I believe. '<i>Tommy,</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> I've thought about you so often; I hear you are sick,'</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'> I blurted</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> out.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Oh, yes, very sick. I have cancer in both lungs. It's a matter of weeks.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>'<i>Can you talk about it, Tom?</i>' I asked.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Sure, what would you like to know?'</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'> he replied.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'What's it like to be only twenty-four and dying?'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Well, it could be worse.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Like what?'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Well, like being fifty and having no values or ideals, like being</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> fifty and thinking that booze, seducing women, and making</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> money are the real biggies in life.</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>I began to look through my mental file cabinet under 'S'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> where I had filed Tommy as strange. <i>(It seems as though everybody </i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>I try to reject by classification, God sends back into my life to educate</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> me.)</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'But what I really came to see you about,</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>' Tom said,<i> 'is something you</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> said to me on the last day of class.' (He remembered!</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>) He continued,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'I asked you if you thought I would ever find God and you said, 'No!'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> which surprised me. Then you said, 'But He will find you.</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>' I thought</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> about that a lot, even though my search for God was hardly intense at</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> that time.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>(My clever line. He thought about that a lot!)</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>'<i>But when the doctors removed a lump from my groin and told</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> me that it was malignant, that's when I got serious about locating</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> God. And when the malignancy spread into my vital organs, I really began</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> banging bloody fists against the bronze doors of heaven.. But God</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> did not come out. In fact, nothing happened. Did you ever try anything</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> for a long time with great effort and with no success? You get</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> psychologically glutted, fed up with trying. And then you quit. 'Well, one</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> day I woke up, and instead of throwing a few more futile appeals over</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> that high brick wall to a God who may be or may not be there, I just</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> quit.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>I decided that I didn't really care about God, about an afterlife, or</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> anything like that. I decided to spend what time I had left</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> doing something more profitable. I thought about you and your</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> class and I remembered something else you had said: 'The essential</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> sadness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> those you loved that you had loved them.''</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'So, I began with the hardest one, my Dad. He was reading</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> the newspaper when I approached him.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'Dad.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'Yes, what?' he asked without lowering the newspaper.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'Dad, I would like to talk with you.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'Well, talk.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'I mean. It's really important.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> The newspaper came down three slow inches. '<i>What is it?</i>'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'Dad, I love you, I just wanted you to know that.'</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'> Tom</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> smiled at me and said it with obvious satisfaction, as though he felt a</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> warm and secret joy flowing inside of him.<i> 'The newspaper fluttered</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> to the floor. Then my father did two things I could never remember</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> him ever doing before. He cried and he hugged me. We talked all</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> night, even though he had to go to work the next morning. It felt so</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> good to be close to my father, to see his tears, to feel his hug, to</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> hear him say that he loved me.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>'<i>It was easier with my mother and little brother. They cried with me,</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> too, and we hugged each other, and started saying real nice</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> things to each other. We shared the things we had been keeping secret</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> for so many years.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'I was only sorry about one thing --- that I had waited so long. Here</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> I was, just beginning to open up to all the people I had actually been</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> close to.</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>Then, one day I turned around and God was there. He didn't</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> come to me when I pleaded with Him. I guess I was like an animal</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> trainer holding out a hoop,<i> 'C'mon, jump through. C'mon, I'll give you</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> three days, three weeks.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Apparently God does things in His own way and at His own</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> hour. But the important thing is that He was there. He found me!</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>You were right. He found me even after I stopped looking</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> for Him'!!</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Tommy,</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'>' I practically gasped,<i> 'I think you are saying</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> something very important and much more universal than you realize.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>To me, at least, you are saying that the surest way to find</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> God is not to make Him a private possession, a problem solver, or an</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> instant consolation in time of need, but rather by opening to love.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> You know, the Apostle John said that. He said: <i>'God is love, and</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> him.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>Tom, could I ask you a favor? You know, when I had you in</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> class you were a real pain. But (laughingly) you can make it all up</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> to me now.... Would you come into my present Theology of Faith</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> course and tell them what you have just told me? If I told them the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> same thing it wouldn't be half as effective as if you were to tell it'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Oooh, I was ready for you, but I don't know if I'm ready for your class.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Tom, think about it. If and when you are ready, give me a call.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>In a few days Tom called, said he was ready for the class, that he</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> wanted to do that for God and for me. So we scheduled a date.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>However, he never made it. He had another appointment, far</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> more important than the one with me and my class. Of course, his</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> life was not really ended by his death, only changed. He made the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> great step from faith into vision.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>He found a life far more beautiful than the eye of man has</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> ever seen or the ear of man has ever heard or the mind of man has</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> ever imagined.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>Before he died, we talked one last time.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> 'I'm not going to make it to your class,'</span></i><span style='color:#403F42'> he said.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'I know, Tom.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'Will you tell them for me? Will you... tell the whole world for me?'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>'I will, Tom. I'll tell them. I'll do my best.'</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'>So, to all of you who have been kind enough to read this</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> simple story about God's love, thank you for listening. And to you,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> Tommy, somewhere in the sunlit, verdant hills of heaven --- I told</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#403F42'> them, Tommy, as best I could.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#403F42'>With thanks, Rev. John Powell, Professor, Loyola University, Chicago</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'>*****<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#BF3F2F'>May God Bless and keep you and yours and remember all </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#BF3F2F'>those who gave their lives for us!!!</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#BF3F2F'>Larry</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>NOTE: This letter is sent to anyone interested in receiving these inspirational notes. 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