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*Prince Charming Wore Roller Skates* 5/1/02 ______________________________________ If you enjoy this free daily email service, I encourage you to spread the word to family and friends that we may bring inspiration into the lives of many! If you are not on the list and this has been passed along to you, join the thousands of HeartTouchers.com readers around the world by sending an e-mail with the word "Subscribe" in the subject line to: HeartTouchers@aol.com Visit our inspirational web site and read all the past stories in our archives at: http://www.HeartTouchers.com ____________________________________________ Are you looking for the perfect gift to give for Mother's Day, Father's Day, or Graduation? Then check out Michael's Video Production business: Video Imagery! You can transfer your photos over to videotape, or even DVD, all set to music that will make your images come alive! 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Kelli-- College Station, TX _________________________________________ Spring is finally upon us and there is something in the air... Can you feel it? Do you know what it is? It's called "Love" and Stephanie Ray Brown shares how she met her Prince Charming. Be sure to write and encourage her today! From my family to yours, Michael _________________________________________ Prince Charming Wears Roller Skates By Stephanie Ray Brown, © 2002 Savvysdad@aol.com April 15 is always a day of celebration in our household. Not only does it end a long tax season for my accountant husband Terry, but it is also the date when we fell in love twenty-two years ago... In the spring of 1980, I had been following one particular guy around school for month. I just did not have the nerve to go up and talk to him. An embarrassing situation from that winter -- truly prevented me from approaching him. He had been a starter for the junior varsity basketball team and I was a cheerleader. I had many opportunities to see this gorgeous guy in action. (That is if I would wear my glasses -- which I was usually too vain to do!). To say the least I am blind as a bat. As Terry sank a half court last second shot -- this extremely near sighted cheerleader, mistaking the blurred vision for another guy, began cheers for Jeff not Terry. As the crowd started chuckling, my face turned crimson as Terry walked by me to get to the locker room. Months later, he only knew me as the dingy cheerleader who could not even get his name right when he hit a great shot! However, my best friend attended church with Terry. Shirley decided to play matchmaker. She not only invited me to a church sponsored skating party -- but also literally pushed me in his parent's car to ride to the skating rink. Although the skating rink was fifteen miles away -- very few words were spoken. As I sank down in that backseat, I just wanted to keep sinking. This had truly been a huge mistake. After we arrived at the skating rink, things did not get any better. Each couple skate I hoped and prayed that Terry would ask me. He didn't! After about three couple skates, I decided enough was enough! So I took turns skating with his two best friends. As the last call for a couple skate came over the rink's p.a., Terry finally skated somewhat awkwardly and stood beside the rails with me. "I guess you wonder why I have not asked you to couple skate?" were his first words to me. Trying ever so hard not to look in those big beautiful brown eyes that made me melt, I answered nonchalantly and dishonestly, "No, not really." This guy not only ignored my tart reply, but would also win my heart with the following reply. Casting those beautiful eyes down at his skates, he humbly remarked, "I only didn't ask because I do not skate very well. If you are not afraid that I will make you fall, would you please skate with me?" This time I did look into those eyes and did melt. As we skated hand in hand to Always and Forever, I knew my life would never be the same. I never knew a guy that actually would admit any of his faults -- let alone also worry about a girl to boot! I had first been attracted to his beauty on the outside. Who wouldn't notice those beautiful brown eyes? Nonetheless, it would be his beautiful heart that made me realize how truly special he was. I had actually found my Prince Charming. Even though he was not riding on a handsome steed (but rented roller skates), he made me feel like Cinderella at the ball as we skated around the rink. I clung tightly to his hand -- not because I was afraid of midnight -- but to help keep him from falling. Looking at our wedding pictures -- my favorite is walking down the aisle as husband and wife. Most couples walk down the aisle with the bride's hand tucked neatly in the crook of her husband's arm. Not us! We walked down the aisle after being pronounced man and wife -- just like we had done seven years before at that skating rink. Hand in hand -- with the promise of helping keep the other one from falling. Our children love to hear the story of how their dad did not know how to skate and asked me to hold his hand to help us keep from tumbling. But it had already been too late for their mother. Only after one look into those eyes, she had fallen... fallen in love with Prince Charming. Stephanie Ray Brown Savvysdad@aol.com Write Stephanie and let her know your thoughts on her story! _______________________________________ Stephanie Ray Brown happily tumbles through life with Terry and their two children Savannah age 6 and Cameron age 3. This stay at home mother and midnight writer (only able to write when she has tucked everyone in bed.) is thrilled that she stumbled onto this wonderful website. The stories truly do touch her heart. She also just gets plain tickled each and every time a story so near and dear to her heart touches other people's hearts too. *** The copyrights to the stories that appear in HeartTouchers.com are owned by the authors and are used with their permission. We refuse to run stories without the author's permission and contact info listed after the story. We also refuse to publish stories listed as "author unknown." (All of which violates Copyright Law and the rights of the authors.) This e-mail may be forwarded in its entirety, but please do not cut and paste the stories to be used elsewhere unless you have contacted and been given permission by the individual writer. Thank you so much for honoring the rights of those writers who graciously share their stories with us! _________________________________________ Can't get enough inspirational stories in your life? Would you like to send a unique gift to your friends and family? 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To order your autographed copy have a check or money order for $13.95 for each book made out to Michael T. Powers, and then send it to: Michael T. Powers 1918 Liberty Lane Janesville, WI 53545 (Please allow about 2 weeks for delivery.) ____________________________________________ Reader Feedback! I love your site and the stories are so touching and I love it all...You both are precious to give to us such beauty and truth and the real life as today we live...thanks for all you are doing and sharing with us...I love it.......I am starting a book of my childhood of being a ministers daughter....now I am blessed to have found your books....thanks again for the beauty and love I see thru both of you... Edrena Wilson edkitwil58@aol.com _________________________________________ Thought For The Day: "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." --Sir Winston Churchill Verse for the Day: "You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." --James 4:14 Kid's Thought For The Day: "If you are going to draw on the wall do it behind the sofa." Parent's Thought For The Day "Children behave best when their stomachs are full and their bladders are empty." --Vicki Lansky Coach's Thought For The Day "Please leave your egos in the locker room." Writer's Thought For the Day: "That could almost be cited as the definition of a poet: Someone who notices and is enormously taken by things that somebody else would walk by." --James Dickey Deep Thought For The Day: "My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant." --Steven Wright ___________________________________________ REQUESTS: Please remember my grandmother in prayer. Her life was spared in a recent tornado in KY, but her house was completely destroyed. Thank you, Stephanie Ray Brown Savvysdad@aol.com I want to thank everyone for their prayers for my nephew, Gale, who has brain cancer at 36 years of age. He had surgery and he lived through that, which is a plus and thanks to prayer. He is now going through radiation treatments and has a few more weeks to go. Gale has a numb leg and doctors can't locate the problem. They are running more tests to see if there is a tumor in the back, and I ask all of you to keep praying for him. Whatever comes up, he will still need our prayers; and I need your prayers to keep my mind "stayed on the Lord." Thank you so very much. Nancy (Rawlins) Weaver silentnancy@webtv.net ___________________________________________ _ /_/\/\ MICHAEL T. POWERS \_\ / HeartTouchers@aol.com /_/ \ "For I have been crucified with Christ and I no \_\/\ \ longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I \_\/ live in the body I live for the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." 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