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A Heartfelt Welcome
ARISE and be FREE
Your ARISE Article
Can I Get ARISE Outa You?
Poignant Ponderings
Giving  Back
Will You ARISE & Help Me?



Dear Valued Subscriber,
 

It's hard to believe it's almost Mother's Day. As I was a single parent for so many years I normally receive a card for both Mother's, and, Father's Day:-) I will be calling  my mother this year as she lives 3 hours from here but we were together a lot last weekend as I explain below.

Only one thing beats spending quality time with family and friends and that is, spending quality time with family and friends on a gorgeous, sunny weekend!

Jennifer and I headed down the 401 late Friday afternoon with her 16 year-old daughter, Ashton, and boyfriend, Dave along for the excursion. We arrived at my eldest daughter Sara’s new home in Tecumseh to the open arms of my energetic 5 and 6 year-old grandboys, Corbin and Cameron. We chilled that evening because we had a busy day on Saturday cleaning up the basement of my wonderful mother, Laura. We’re talking over 50 years of accumulation here, and the overflow possessions of my youngest sister, Dee, who lived with my mom up until a few months ago.

I laughed to myself when I saw the gigantic dumpster in the cobblestone driveway but the last laugh was my sister Lisa’s, who ordered the metal monster, when it was filled to the gills at days end. Several van loads to a local charity thrift shop and loads of Dee’s stuff to my storage garage as well. Did someone say stiff and sore on Sunday morning?

It was a blend of happy and sad reminiscing as we sorted through my late fathers possessions (he passed on in 1996). Boxes of reel-to-reel tapes of piano and organ performances from his music room, and, tapes he made of bands he played in, choirs he conducted, concerts he recorded from the radio etc. were among the treasured relics. There was even a tape called “Rick Piano” that I can’t wait to listen to. We gave away his large Teac 4-track tape recorder a decade ago but he still had a small, broken down Roberts recorder which accompanied us back home Sunday evening and which I will try to coax to work over the weekend. Wish me luck!

On the Saturday evening, Jenn, Sara, her friend Tanya and my niece went to a local hot spot where I had invited my local business partners and some friends and we had an absolute hoot! Sunday morning the whole family met at a great breakfast joint for a scrumptious brunch. Back over to my mom’s where we met with some of her neighbors (I was raised in this house) and finally to Lisa’s hot tub before haulin’ it back up back the 401.

My great friend and best-selling author, John Harricharan, is my guest on this weeks 10 Minute podcast, and the 44 Minute Mentor Tuesday with Guy Finley debuted on Tuesday so you just might want to tune into Mentor Audio and give them both a listen! I've chosen to feature, To Mother, a poem that John wrote as a young man in honor of Mother's Day in place of the feature article. I hope you enjoy it!

Lastly, here's something you've probably seen before, but the words can never ring truer:

M... is for the million things she gave me,
O... means only that she's growing old,
T... is for the tears she shed to save me,
H... is for her heart of purest gold;
E... is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
R... means right, and right she'll always be.
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER," A word that means the world to me.
--Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

Assuming you enjoy this publication can I ask you to do me a small, but at the same time, huge favor? Would you choose 3 people from your Address Book right now and send them this issue or the main page link to ARISE!: http://www.arise.themirrorezine.com - and suggest they subscribe. Thank you, I'd really appreciate that!

Now, please kick back and enjoy this issue of ARISE!

As always, my greatest wishes for your complete success,

Rick Beneteau

ARISE and be FREE

I'd love for you to take advantage of the following free gifts I've provided just to show my deep appreciation for your choosing to receive my publication:

The ONE Minute and TEN Minute Mentor Message Podcasts

Pearls of Success - My Free Inspirational eBook

Special Inspirational PDF Files

 Inspirational Screensavers

My 9/11 Tribute Song

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YOUR ARISE ARTICLE

To Mother
Dedicated to All Mothers Everywhere
a Poem by John Harricharan

Who thinks of us when the going gets rough,
When the days are hard and the nights are tough?
Who feels it most when our hearts are broken
By the words of a friend, so thoughtlessly spoken?
Who could it be but Mother dear.


Who brought us up in the way we should go
And kept us well sheltered from sun and the snow?
Who would give up the most precious gift
To deliver us from evil, our souls to uplift?
Who could it be but Mother dear.


Whom should we thank along life's way,
While our journey progresses through night and day?
Whom should we love with each passing breath
From the dawn of our lives to the threshold of death?
Who should it be but Mother dear.

© John Harricharan
All Rights Reserved  

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Can I Get ARISE Outa You?

A Leter From Moma


January 6, 1922

Dear Son

Im ritin this real slow cause I know you cant read fast.

We don't live where we did when you first left. Paw read in the paper that most akcidents happen within 2 miles from home. So, we moved. I wont be able to send you the address as the last family here took the numbers with them for their next house, sos they woodnt have to change their address.

This place is real fancy, even has a washing machine. Don't work tho. The first day I put four shirts in and pulled the chain. Taint seen them since.

It only rained twice this week. Three days the first time and four days this time.

The coat you wanted me to sen you. Well your Aunt Sue, sayd it would be to heavy to sen in the mail. Them real heavy buttons and all. Sos I cut them buttons off and put em in the pockets.

As fer yur sister. Lulubel had a baby this mornin. We aint herd ifin it's a boy or a girl yet. So we don't know ifin your an Aunt or Uncle.

Wel thats it fer now. Write soon.

Love
Moma


PS - Son, I was gona sen you money, but the envelope was already sealed.

 

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Poignant Ponderings

WHO CREATED EVIL?


The university professor challenged his students with this question:
"Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!" "God created everything?" the professor asked. "Yes sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."

The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light, we can study, but not darkness. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The name of the student --- Albert Einstein

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GIVING BACK

You might already support these or similar organizations, but it's the sad truth that we can never really do enough to help people, especially children. Here is what I support and encourage you to review:

The Internet Toy Drive  
Founded by Anne Marie Baugh and myself, and sponsored by Drew Bledsoe (#11, 2001 Super Bowl Champion quarterback), we are official corporate sponsors of the U.S. Marine's Toys for Tots program.

My WorldVision Children
This is the special group of children from around the world that I sponsor. WorldVision is a Christian organization that has been around for decades and almost every penny donated goes directly to these needy children and their families. Nothing beats receiving a handwritten letter, or even an email now, from "your child":-) You can even buy chickens or cows that get right to these families in dire need!

St. Jude Children's Hospital
My father was a lifelong musician and played piano in bands with Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude and father of Marlo Thomas) among others during the depression, thirties and early World War II years. Understandably, this world famous research hospital is close to my heart:-)

Parenting with Dignity P
If you are a parent, expecting to be one in the future, or even believe you've done your parenting job, do yourself a great favor and check out this fabulous resource! Drew Bledsoe, his father and family members, my great friend Tom Heatherington and many more have established an absolutely wonderful foundation devoted to the betterment of children and families (Mac Bledsoe was interviewed on ABC's 20/20 this year).

Will You ARISE & Help Me?

I would greatly appreciate it if you would take a few seconds to tell just a few of your friends about ARISE. Simply Forward this URL to everyone in your Address Book.  All they need to do is enter their email address below (it will NEVER be shared or given away).

Thank You!!

   

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