This is a pass-along email that I received last week from Diana Barron. It's title is "Love Ya". People were told to pass it along to eight others. In the heading, I couldn't tell how many others Diana had forwarded it to. It only had my name. She had gotten it from Betsy Brown. Betsy had cheated; she forwarded to quite a few more.

Love Ya

One morning you will never wake up,

Do all your friends know you love them?

I was thinking....I could die today, tomorrow or next week,

And I wondered if I had wounds needing to be healed,

Friendships that needed rekindling or three words needing to be said.

Let every one of your friends know you love them,

Even if you think they don't love you back,

you would be amazed at what those three little words and a smile can do.

And just in case GOD calls me home before I see you again......

I Love ya!!

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When I responded back to Diana, I said, "I love ya, too! And while I am at, I love me, too!"

She typed, "That is one thing that sometimes dismays me by so many Christian people, we have some how learned that it is okay to love others, but not to love ourselves. If we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, we need to make sure that we love ourselves first. Then we will be able to love others!"

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Today is a good day to love yourself, love others, love God (not necessarily in that order!); and don't forget to TELL them!!