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Geer groups: 1. No. Calif: Doug Seed 2. So. Calif: Dan Moran / about 100-150 a few years back So. Calif: Andy Zitelli / about 40-50 3. San Diego: Bob Lindfelt 4. Ohio: Johnny Townsend (only one licensed; others run the local groups) - 50ish 5. Wisconsin: Howard Stein 6. Indiana: Rich Watkins / about 50-60 in No. & Central IN 7. Illinois: Naperville - Bob Cardin 8. Illinois: Former Joe Guarini group: Now Joe Jr.? - - approx. 150? 9. NJ: Jerry Carr 10. AZ: Dave Standage / approx. 50 11. Charlottesville, Virginia: Earl Burton 12. how disgusting (sowwy)

hills, i thought of you and brett today. my own nephew is a grad of seton hall prep. and i thought of high school friends and current friends and neighbors.... who are gone.... a tough day.... forever.... love you, ex

how are you, dear dana ?

i love your story, d how did your 2 friends die ? (i'm sorry) when i was a senior in high school (a year before i got in twi), some pentecostal guy came through (i went to catholic school for 12 years) and shared about the pentecostal movement in the cath. church. but guess what his name was ..... don DIVINE .... i swear .... but he definitely grabbed my attention

you made me laugh, ev

what's wrong with church ? i have no idea ask god if it's okay just to be with him

can i get through my kid's birthday before christmas please

ok so what when dylan sings to me, i think of jesus

ok i'm nuts but bear with me this is the new song that touched my heart regarding jesus: I can only imagine What it will be like When I walk By your side I can only imagine What my eyes will see When your face Is before me I can only imagine Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel Will I dance for you Jesus or in awe of you be still Will I stand in your presence or to my knees will I fall Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all I can only imagine I can only imagine When that day comes And I find myself Standing in the Son I can only imagine When all I will do Is forever Forever worship You I can only imagine I can only imagine When all I will do Is forever, forever worship you ***** but this is my favorite..... When the rain is blowing in your face And the whole world is on your case I could offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue I'd go crawling down the avenue There's nothing that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love The storms are raging on the rollin' sea And on the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free You ain't seen nothing like me yet I could make you happy, make your dreams come true Nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

beauuuuuuutiful i must say

god i'm still crying about that song but anyway, the one by dan was like a hymn if i remember does anyone remember ? i got it, it's called something like "through changed eyes" now we wait a joyful nation, come, our something christ elation..... knowing then we'll see it all through changed eyes i actually live for the day :)

didn't dan have a nasal touch to his beautiful voice like this guy ? in case you don't know the story I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars -- all in the same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? And what has Rick done for his father? Not much -- except save his life. This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life," Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. "Put him in an institution." But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. "No way," Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain." "Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that." Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks." That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!" And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon. "No way," Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year. Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?" How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way," he says. Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992 -- only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time. "No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the Century." And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape," one doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago." So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life. Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. "The thing I'd most like," Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once."

this video just made me sob, but the SONG also.... one of the few things that has touched my heart in this way in a long time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ will i dance for you jesus ? will i able to speak at all ? i can only imagine....

as usual, haven't read the thread i do remember having tears when i heard david bailey and agape singing, "sittin' by the fireside...." touched my heart, as did many way productions i remember dan of the 7th corps, oh what the heck was that song i loved ? dan moran

here's the link where i got that quote http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0906/ozarks_ap.html wierwille told me that he was ordained by god to fulfill my needs as a woman when i read this, i just had to share....

are you sure that wasn't 2525 ? here are the lyrics - not cheesy - they're quite heavy, for a 13 year old like you - and me In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive they may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies Everything you think do and say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 You ain't gonna need your teeth won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms hangin' limp at your sides Your legs got nothin' to do Some machine's doing that for you In the year 6565 You won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube In the year 7510 If God's a comin' He oughta make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say Guess it's time for the judgement day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again woh oh In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's takin everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothin woh oh Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find......

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha waysider hey i could see maybe if the baby stepped in it for the first time in the first pair of shoes ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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no way what a counterfeit that's their dog's poop i heard they were hoping to get $15K for it or something i didn't beileve it when i heard it

yeah why does 'the way' have a site ? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the evil god bus driver doesn't have a site, but does he have a computer and internet access ? hmmmm ???? i love the internet

yippee !!!!!!! that'll be nika soon

awwww i knew that and nikie will know that i was just dying to use that word "vernacular" baaaahhhhhh pretty flowers

i liked your post rummie

what about chronic mental disorders. rozie (with your rozie way colored glasses) you should start packing i probably shouldn't say "mental" because i am and there's nothing shameful about it, but i don't know what to call it.... chronic cult disorder maybe..... chronic MEAN disorder.... chronic hypocrisy disoder.... i'll think of other stuff....

if people want to see, they will if they don't, they won't i still can't believe anyone would follow the psycho bus driver i still can't believe people think wierwille never did anything horribly inappropriate on that bus sorry for the de-rail :)