Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I read this story below on facebook just a few minutes ago.  In 1997 for a time we had an extra bedroom.  We met Brian Sewell, a college student, and when he need a new apartment, he came to live with us for about 9 months.  We became lifelong friends, and he comes and stays with us now and then.  He has since married, and lives in California, and has a lovely family.  He is a wonderful musician, and has composed many beautiful songs, and also is an entrepreneur, and has worked in several successful businesses.   This story below he wrote, I suppose today, and left it available to "share", so Brian, in case you read this, I hope you don't mind my sharing it here, as a touching story which hopefully will help us all feel more gratitude for our own lives and blessings.  America is truly a "choice land".  We often don't realize that many many people in the world simply have to find food and shelter each day, and don't have time or money to do much else.  

To begin this new post, I want to refer anyone interested to the newly published statement by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of "Race and the Priesthood".  I have read it, and really enjoyed it.  You may find it here:    http://www.lds.org/topics/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng     (copy) I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but I want to offer free Christmas music to anyone who is interested.    I realize it is a bit late, only 2 weeks until Christmas Eve.  But if you are interested, perhaps you can get copies and save them for next year.  I have a lot of music I have arranged, and composed on an internet site:   www.musichousepublications.com   (copy and paste)  I have the copyrights, and I really love to give them free to anyone interested who asks me.   All of the music available on that site, I also have on my home computer in PDF files -- so if you have Adobe Reader, (which is free to download ) you can print them out.  If you