A man from New York City vacationed several times up in the state of Maine. He liked it it so well up there that he sold out in New York and bought a home in Maine to live there for the rest of his life. He liked the honest lifestyle and the clean air etc.
He noticed his neighbor raised rabbits for a living. The man had several dozen hutches full of rabbits. One day shortly after the move to the new home the former New Yorker looked out his window in time to his dog carrying a rabbit in its mouth. Horrified, he ran out to save the rabbit, only to find it was too late.
Mortified and embarrassed, he went to the neighbor with the dead bunny. The neighbor was very nice about the incident and told him not worry about it. Sometime later the rabbit man needed to go on a visit to see his son in a distant state for two weeks. The New Yorker, hearing about this, thought he could redeem himself, and volunteered to clean and feed and water the rabbits for the man.
The two weeks went without incident until about an hour before the neighbor was to return home. The dog again was trotting across the yard with a rabbit in his mouth. The New Yorker ran out again to save the poor animal, but it was too late! The animal was dirty and beyond help.
This time, to save embarrassment, the New Yorker filled up his sink with hot water and put in some Woolite. The rabbit washed clean and the wife blow dried it with her electric blow dryer. The New Yorker quickly put the rabbit in a cage and went home.
About an hour later he got a phone call from the rabbit man asking if he saw any thing unusual about the rabbits. The New Yorker acted mystified and said no. He went on to say that if anything happened, it happened after he fed the animals that morning. "Funny thing," the rabbit man said. "I have a dead rabbit, and it looks just like the one I buried just before I left for my trip."
Reminding you, that almost always it is best to be honest (exceptions are “Do I look fat in this?” and other white lies). Dishonesty has a way of coming back to bite you.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
WET PANTS
Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There
is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all
of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and
the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart
is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine
how this has happened. It's never happened before,
and he knows that when the boys find out he will
never hear the end of it. When the girls find out,
they'll never speak to him again as long as he
lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts
his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this
is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from
now I'm dead meat.'
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the
teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has
been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate
named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is
filled with water. Susie trips in front of the
teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in
the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is
saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you,
Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym
shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the
other children are on their hands and knees cleaning
up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But
as life would have it, the ridicule that should have
been his has been transferred to someone else -
Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
You've done enough, you klutz!'
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting
for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and
whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?'
Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are
always around us to do good...
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a
Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough
times right now, but God is getting ready to bless
you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
My instructions were to pick four (4) people that I
wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass
this to at least four (4) people you want to be
blessed and a copy back to me.
This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the
best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of
rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another.
The Prayer:
Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and
those that I care deeply for, who are reading this
right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love
and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to
their spirit at this very moment. Where there is
pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is
self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through
Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to
fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families,
finances, their goings and their comings. Amen.
(If the Lord lays upon your heart to send this to
more than four '4' people, you are truly blessed)
'If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no
Sense making them' Anonymous'
is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all
of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and
the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart
is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine
how this has happened. It's never happened before,
and he knows that when the boys find out he will
never hear the end of it. When the girls find out,
they'll never speak to him again as long as he
lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts
his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this
is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from
now I'm dead meat.'
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the
teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has
been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate
named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is
filled with water. Susie trips in front of the
teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in
the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is
saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you,
Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The
teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym
shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the
other children are on their hands and knees cleaning
up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But
as life would have it, the ridicule that should have
been his has been transferred to someone else -
Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
You've done enough, you klutz!'
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting
for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and
whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?'
Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are
always around us to do good...
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a
Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough
times right now, but God is getting ready to bless
you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
My instructions were to pick four (4) people that I
wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass
this to at least four (4) people you want to be
blessed and a copy back to me.
This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the
best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of
rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another.
The Prayer:
Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and
those that I care deeply for, who are reading this
right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love
and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to
their spirit at this very moment. Where there is
pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is
self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through
Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to
fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families,
finances, their goings and their comings. Amen.
(If the Lord lays upon your heart to send this to
more than four '4' people, you are truly blessed)
'If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no
Sense making them' Anonymous'
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