1. The tennis shoes you must replace today will go on sale next week.
2. Leakproof thermoses--will.
3. The chances of a piece of bread falling with the grape jelly side
down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
4. The garbage truck will be two doors past your house when the
argument over whose day it is to take out the trash ends.
5. The shirt your child must wear today will be the only one that
needs to be washed or mended.
6. Gym clothes left at school in lockers mildew at a faster rate than
other clothing.
7. The item your child lost, and must have for school within the next
ten seconds, will be found in the last place you look.
8. Sick children recover miraculously when the pediatrician enters
the treatment room.
9. Refrigerated items, used daily, will gravitate toward the back of
the refrigerator.
10. Your chances of being seen by someone you know dramatically
increase if you drive your child to school in your robe and curlers.
--Selected from Mikey's Funnies.
A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men
on
it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors,
not
knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to
pray
to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed
to
divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the
island.
The first thing they prayed for was food. - The next morning, the first
man
saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land, and he was able to eat
its
fruit. The other man's parcel of land remained barren. After a week, the
first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife. The next day,
another
ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side
of
the land. On the other side of the island, there was nothing.
Soon the
first
man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. - The next day, like magic,
all
of these were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.
Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that he and his wife could
leave the island. - In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of
the
island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave
the
second man on the island. He considered the other man unworthy to receive
God's blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.
As the ship
was
about to leave, the first man heard a voice from heaven booming, "Why are
you
leaving your companion on the island?"
"My blessings are mine alone,
since I
was the one who prayed for them," the first man answered. "His prayers
were
all unanswered and so he does not deserve anything."
"You are mistaken!"
the
voice rebuked him. "He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for
that, you would not have received any of my blessings."
"Tell me," the
first
man asked the voice, "What did he pray for that I should owe him
anything?"
"He prayed that all your prayers be answered."
For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone,
but
those of another praying for us.
-- Author Unknown; email found circulating the Web.
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