Never and Always Touching & Touched

By Karen Scott

I hope that these short stories and poems will touch you as they have me, teaching a lesson that we all need at certain times. These short stories are a look at one event on one special day that changed them forever. These different people were never and always touching and touched.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781449063016

Karen Scott

She prays that these words will touch your heart and add a breath of hope during your hard times. That you will find the faithful friend in Jesus that she has come to know.

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Table of Contents

Touching and never touched

Never and Always Touching and Touched

Extreme

Change

Jingle, Jangle

Ribbon

People

Quest

Thank you

Stranger and Yet Friend

Hope

Grandmother

Star

The Grasshopper

Sue

The Accident

Bethlehem

No

Waves

Mud Pies

Ron

Yes or No

Dream

Irregular Dream

Pan the Day Away

Last Day

Work Day

The Bike Race

Splendor

January 24

Starry Sky

These Months

Promises hard to keep

The cross

Never Never heard

Run the Race

Pam

The Prayer

Blue Sky

The Banner

Girl

Ruth

Thank you

Beauty

Touching and never touched

Man has been touched everyday

God touches man with the sun and moon

with the stars, the wind and the rain

What does man do with God’s love?

Complain, Complain

Why this? Why that?

Wait, watch and listen

God is saying; I Care

Every day, just look around

He shares love in so many ways

Love between a man and woman

The care of a mother for a child

Complain, Complaining everyday

Man wants to be touched but never touch

Never and Always Touching and Touched

One cool day in September, as Sally walked to her favorite restaurant downtown for lunch. She thought about how she had felt when she was thirteen years old. It was the very way she was feeling on this day. Sally was a tall skinny young lady whose light brown hair was short but well kept. She daydreamed as she walked. Then she asked herself, Why am I thinking about my childhood just now? Maybe it is because that is how I feel right now, feeling that I am not touched or touching anyone. Sally had grown up feeling that she was not really part of her family. She could not remember anything about her childhood before she was thirteen years old. For some reason this day led her to question all the feelings she had had as she grew up in her parents’ home. She has gone through years of wishing someone would accept her without always trying to change the way she was.

Sally wondered how she could approach her mother with all these questions. She wanted to prepare her questions just so.

She wanted answers but did not want the questions to hurt this