Charles Holmes

Touching Story ---> ''Our Apple Tree''
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A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, and took a nap under the shadow.
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He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day.
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One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad.
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“Come and play with me”, the tree asked the boy.
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“I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more” the boy replied.
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“I want toys. I need money to buy them.”
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“Sorry, but I do not have money, but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.”
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The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.
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One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned and the tree was excited.
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“Come and play with me” the tree said.
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“I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?”
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“Sorry, but I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house.” So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.
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One hot summer day, the man returned and the tree was delighted.
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“Come and play with me!” the tree said.
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“I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?” said the man.
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“Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.”
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So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.
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Finally, the man returned after many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you”, the tree said. “No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite” the
man replied.
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“No more trunk for you to climb on.” “I am too old for that now” the man said. “I really cannot give you anything, the only thing left is my dying roots,” the tree said with tears.
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“I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years,” the man replied.
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“Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, come sit down with me and rest.” The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.
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This is a story of everyone. The tree is like our parents. When we were young, we loved to play with our Mother and Dad. When we grow up, we leave them; only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could just to make you happy.
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You may think the boy is cruel to the tree, but that is how all of us treat our parents. We take them for granted; we donÂ’t appreciate all they do for us, until itÂ’s too late.
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~ Moral: ??????
Treat your parents with loving careÂ…. For you will know their value, when you see their empty chairÂ…We never know the love of our parents for us; till we have become parents.
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For the Love ❤️ of Jehovah and Don't Give Up Convention 2017  
One of the most heartwarming sounds is the love being directed towards to or new brothers and sister, 31 of them in Huntsville Alabama USA..
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1. One of our Russian sisters who feeds spiritually with their tablet by not being able to go to meetings and not be able to have posts in their house.
2. Russian witnesses gather by families to take the tea.On the left brother Eugene, witness since 1994.To the right sister Marina (since 1994) and her daughter Kate (since 2003) Marina tells us that she remembers her mother painting Easter eggs. I'm looking for information in the Bible and he didn't see anything about Easter. Then came the witnesses preaching and taught us the truth about Easter. Learned the Truth! 
3. A Russian sister continues to read the bible daily privately. ??????
 

PRAISING GOD’S GLORIOUS NAME – SHARE THIS GLORY WITH THE ANGELS ABOVE!
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Prayer was well-prepared, and those Levites were humble and felt that the quality of their words could not fully express the praise Jehovah really deserves. Thus, the prayer starts with this modest appeal respecting God’s people: “Let them bless your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.”—Neh. 9:5.
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“You are Jehovah alone,” the prayer continues, “you yourself have made the heavens, even the heaven of the heavens, and all their army, the earth and all that is upon it, the seas and all that is in them; and you are preserving all of them alive; and the army of the heavens are bowing down to you.” (Neh. 9:6) 
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Yes, Jehovah God created the entire universe, made up of countless galaxies of stars. Equally marvelous, he created everything on our beautiful planet with its amazing ability to sustain an astonishing variety of life—life that keeps reproducing according to its kind. Witnessing all of this were the holy angels of God, who can also be described as “the army of the heavens.” (1 Ki. 22:19; Job 38:4, 7) 
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Moreover, the angels humbly do God’s will by ministering to sinful humans “who are going to inherit salvation.” (Heb. 1:14) What a splendid example the angels set for us as we serve Jehovah unitedly like a well-trained army!—1 Cor. 14:33, 40.
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We need discipline from Jehovah in order to be fit to survive into his righteous new world. “What son is he that a father does not discipline?” asked the apostle Paul. (Heb. 12:7) We show that we accept God’s direction in our lives by faithfully enduring in his service and allowing his spirit to refine us. And if we commit a serious sin, we can be sure that Jehovah will forgive us if we are truly repentant and humbly accept discipline.
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https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013766?q=neh+9%3A6&p=par#h=28
 

THE  MIRACLE  OF  LIFE ❤   AN  AMAZING  VIDEO....  ENJOY !
What  a  wonderful  and  wise  Jehovah  God  we  have  

Russia’s  Supreme  Court  to  Hear  Appeal  by  Jehovah’s Witnesses  on  July 17,  2017
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia filed an appeal against the Supreme Court ruling that effectively banned their worship. The April 20 ruling, handed down by Judge Yuriy Ivanenko, terminated all activity of the Witnesses’ legal entities throughout the country. A three-judge panel of the Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court will hear the appeal on July 17, 2017.
The appeal requests a full reversal of the ruling. It emphasizes that the ruling is not based on factual evidence and that Jehovah’s Witnesses are not guilty of extremist activity in any way. The appeal also highlights that the charges that led to the Supreme Court ruling are the same charges that authorities used as a basis to persecute the Witnesses during the Soviet era. They were later rehabilitated and exonerated from these charges. Additionally, the appeal emphasized that the ruling contradicts the guarantees of religious freedom embodied in Russia’s Constitution and its international commitments.
The ruling is already affecting the Witnesses in ways reminiscent of the oppression they experienced under Communist rule. Authorities are prosecuting some Witnesses for “extremist activity,” employers have dismissed Witnesses from their jobs, schoolteachers have intimidated Witness students in front of their classmates, and biased individuals have vandalized Kingdom Halls and firebombed two homes of Witnesses—burning the homes to the ground.
Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide hope that the Appellate Chamber of Russia’s Supreme Court will see the injustice of the   earlier ruling and reverse it, thus protecting religious freedom and the security of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia.
LET'S  HOPE  THE  BEST  FOR  OUR  DEAR  RUSSIAN  BROTHER'S  AND  SISTER'S ❤
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/russia/supreme-court-hear-appeal-jehovahs-witnesses/