Family Theater: Talent for Living
Family Theater · March 18, 1948 · 28 min · 4,692 words
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The mutual broadcasting system in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Talent for Living, starring Kirk and Diana Douglas. Danny Thomas is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. You know, sometimes you go into a house and everything's stuffy.
I mean, the windows are all shut up. The place is airtight and the people are like Eskimos and an igloo. They don't seem to notice it. Of course, I'm not talking for the fresh air fiends.
I'm just saying that that's how we are sometimes, because, you know, we can also get shut up inside ourselves and keep the sunshine and laughter out of our lives. And fresh air and sunshine and laughter, it's all free.
Yes, all God's gifts are free. It's like the wonderful help that comes from prayer. It's like the happiness in a family. God's gifts can be had for the taking. God's blessings come by simply asking.
We want happiness in your home. That can be had for the asking too. Pray. And don't shut up all your prayers inside yourself. Let the rest of your family into your secret. Pray together with your family because family prayer will bring the sunshine and happiness of God's love into your home.
We'll hear from Danny Thomas again later in the program. talent for living. Tonight's family theater stories starring Kirk and Diana Douglas. I was the most surprised fellow in three counties when Carol can't calmly accepted my offer of marriage. You see we were dancing and it was more like a joke than anything else when I suggested that she ought to be my partner for the
rest of our lives. Not that I wasn't in love with Carol. Gosh that stuck out all over me but I thought I didn't have a chance. You see she was the smartest and Well, maybe you think I'm prejudiced, but there were a lot of other fellas who felt the same way I did.
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