Things aren’t always what they seem

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.

The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room.

Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.

As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.

When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied,

“Things aren’t always what they seem.”

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.

After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. >

When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears.

Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.

The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?

The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused.

The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.

“Things aren’t always what they seem,” the older angel replied.

“When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.

Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn’t find it.”

“Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead.

Things aren’t always what they seem.”

Scoring Points

In the world, one single rule applies to the men:

Make the Woman happy. Do something she likes, and you get points. Do something she dislikes and points are subtracted. You don’t get any points for doing something she expects. Sorry, that’s the way the game is played.

Here is a guide to the point system:

SIMPLE DUTIES
– You make the bed (+1)
– You make the bed, but forget the decorative pillow (0)
– You throw the bedspread over rumpled sheets (-1)
– You go out to buy her what she wants (+5)
– In the rain hand in hand (+80)
– You check out a suspicious noise, and it is nothing (0)
– You check out a suspicious noise and it is something (+5)
– You pummel it with iron rod (+10)

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS
– You stay by her side the entire party (0)
– You stay by her side for a while, then leave to chat with a college buddy (-2)
– Named Tina (-4)
– Tina is a dancer (-1000)

HER BIRTHDAY
– You take her out to dinner (0)
– Okay, it’s a sports bar (-2)
– And it’s all-you-can-eat night (-3)
– It’s a sports bar, it’s all-you-can-eat night, and your face is painted the colours of your favourite team (-10)

A NIGHT OUT
– You take her to a movie (+2)
– You take her to a movie she likes (+4)
– You take her to a movie you hate (+6)
– You take her to a movie you like (-2)
– It’s called ‘DeathCop’ (-3)

YOUR PHYSIQUE
– You develop a noticeable potbelly (-15)
– You develop a noticeable potbelly and exercise to get rid of it (+10)
– You say, “It doesn’t matter, you have one too.” (-8000)

ENJOY THE ‘BIG’ QUESTION
– She asks, “Do I look fat?” (-5) [Yes, you LOSE> points no matter what]
– You hesitate in responding (-10)
– You reply, “Where?” (-35)

COMMUNICATION
– When she wants to talk about a problem , you listen, displaying what looks like a concerned ____expression (0)
– You listen, for over 30 minutes (+50)
– You listen for more than 30 minutes without lookin at the TV (+500)

Love Story

At 10th Grade:-
As I sat there in English class,
I stared at the girl next to me.
She was my so called ‘best friend’.
I stared at her long, silky hair,
And wished she was mine.
But she didn’t notice me like that,
And I knew it.

After class,
She walked up to me and asked me for
The notes she had missed the day before.
I handed them to her.She said ‘thanks’
And gave me a kiss on the cheek.
I want to tell her, I want her to know
That I don’t want to be just friends,
I love her but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.

At 11th grade:-
The phone rang. On the other end,
It was her. She was in tears,
Mumbling on and on about how
Her love had broke her heart.
She asked me to come over
Because she didn’t want to be alone, So I did.
As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her
Soft eyes, wishing she was mine.
After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie,
And three bags of chips,
She decided to go home.
She looked at me, said ‘thanks’
And gave me a kiss
On the cheek..I want to tell her,
I want her to know that
I don’t want to be just friends,
I love her but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.

When in Senior year:-
One fine day she walked to my locker.
‘My date is sick’ she said,
‘hes not gonna go’ well,
I didn’t have a date, and in 7th grade,
We made a promise that
If neither of us had dates,
We would go together just as ‘best friends’.
So we did.
That night, after everything was over,
I was standing at her front door step.
I stared at her as She smiled at me
And stared at me with her crystal eyes.
Then she said- ‘I had the best time, thanks!’
And gave me a kiss on the cheek.
I want to tell her,
I want her to know
That I don’t want to be just friends,
I love her but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.

At Graduation:-
A day passed, then a week, then a month.
Before I could blink, it was graduation day.
I watched as her perfect body
Floated like an angel
Up on stage to get her diploma.
I wanted her to be mine-but
She didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it.
Before everyone went home,
She came to me in her smock and hat,
And cried as I hugged her.
Then she lifted her head from my shoulder
And said- ‘you’re my best friend,
Thanks”s and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
I want to tell her,
I want her to know
That I don’t want to be just friends,
I love her but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.

On the Marriage:-
Now I sit in the pews of the church.
That girl is getting married now.
And drive off to her new life,
Married to another man.
I wanted her to be mine,
But she didn’t see me like that,
And I knew it.
But before she drove away,
She came to me and said ‘you came !’.
She said ‘thanks’ and kissed me on the cheek.
I want to tell her,
I want her to know
That I don’t want to be just friends,
I love her but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.

When Death:-
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin
Of a girl who used to be my ‘best friend’.
At the service, they read a diary entry
She had wrote in her high school years.
This is what it read:
‘I stare at him wishing he was mine,
But he doesn’t notice me like that,
And I know it.
I want to tell him,
I want him to know that
I don’t want to be just friends,
I love him but I’m just too shy,
And I don’t know why.
I wish he would tell me he loved me !
‘I wish I did too…’

I thought to my self, and I cried.

HOPE ALL THE LOVERS WILL LEARN A LESSON FROM THIS STORY

Important of Excellence

A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?” “No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.” The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked. “There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work. “Where are you going to install the idol?”

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. “If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, “I will know it.”
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not.

“Excellence” is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency…

Value of Time

To realize
The value of a sister
Ask someone
Who doesn’t have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to Meet.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the tr ain, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident…

To! realize
The value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when

you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend:
Lose one.

Just believe in yourself

One day a group of boys
Decided to have a race
They chose to climb a great big tree
And set off at a pace

The rest of their friends gathered
To see the boys at play
They talked about it to themselves
“Will they make it?” “No way!”

They called up to the children
“You’ll never make it up that tree”
But the boys just kept on climbing
And said “just watch and you will see”

But the others, how they shouted
And thought the boys tried to ignore
They began to drop out one by one
Another, another and then more

But one boy kept on climbing
And made it to the top of the tree
He never lost faith but believed in himself
And said “this won’t defeat me”

The others were quite amazed
At the squirrel at the top of the tree
“How on earth did he do it?” they said
“Well”, said one, “he’s completely deaf, you see”

So the motto of this poem is
You can reach the top of the tree
Just don’t listen to what others say
Just believe in yourself and you’ll see………

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS

Every day should be a good day and you should live it like it’s your last. Some people live a life of anger, frustration, pain, jealousy, and/or dishonesty, but all of these things will come to pass when your time here is over. Just take a moment to think, we will not be on this earth forever.One day, we will not have to worry about going to work or how we will make our car payment.

We will not have to worry where our next meal will come from, or how we can buy that beautiful house. At anytime, God could take us off of this earth, so you should appreciate today and not worry about tomorrow, for nobody knows what tomorrow will bring. When you wake up each morning, thank the Lord for waking you up.

When you lie down to sleep at night, thank the Lord for another day. If you have a job, thank the Lord for your place of employment. Ask that He May bless you in everything that you do. Ask Him to give you the knowledge and the wisdom to do your job. If you don’t have a job, thank Him anyway. Ask him to direct you to the job that is right for you.

When you are eating breakfast, lunch or dinner, say a prayer. Thank the Lord for providing food and nourishment to your body. If you are healthy, thank the Lord for the health and strength in your body. If you aren’t, thank Him anyway for life, and ask Him to heal your body. So the next time that you get mad, think twice.

The next time you complain about something at your job, think twice. The next time you say you wish you had steak instead of chicken, think twice. Be thankful for what you have, and the life that God has given you. Pray and ask the Lord for guidance. Be sincere, as God knows whether or not we mean it from the heart. Help those in need as a gift from your heart, and not so you can get a pat on the back.

Put forth the extra effort in everything that you do. Go after what you want in life, and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals. No matter how perfect you think you are, there is always room for improvement, and an opportunity for you to do better. If you are depressed, don’t cry just hold your head up and the Lord will help you through.

Pray and ask the Lord to deliver you from your state of depression. Whatever it is that you are depressed about, God will take that pain from your heart. It may not be at that moment, or that next hour, or maybe not even the next day, but He WILL do it if you just believe in Him.

God may not show up when YOU want Him to, but He’s ALWAYS right in time. God will not give us more than we can bear. Sometimes He will present us with issues that will test our faith, but you have to be strong enough to believe that God will do exactly what He says. The message for today is to praise the Lord, have faith in the Lord, give thanks to the Lord, and live every day like it is your last.

Theoretically speaking, if the Lord never does anything else for us, other than wake us up each day, put food in our mouths and clothes on our backs, we should thank Him anyway. He died so that we could have life on this earth. Please keep this message flowing and send it to your loved ones and friends.

Sue Divine – Treat the earth well…..it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ANCESTORS, we borrow it from our children.

Attitude

A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and ask him for a Phone Call.

Shop-owner replied Sweety this is no a STD, but you can do one call.

The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:

The boy asked, “Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?

The woman replied, “I already have someone to cut my lawn.”

“Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now.” replied boy.

The woman responded that she was very satisfied with the person who was presently cutting her lawn.

The little boy found more perseverance and offered, “Lady, I’ll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of North-Palm beach, Florida.”

Again the woman answered in the negative.

With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.

The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy and said,” Son… I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job.”

The little boy replied, “No thanks, I was just checking my performance with the job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to!”

Want to get in trouble ?

One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river.

When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “Why are you crying?”

The woodcutter replied that his axe has fallen into water, and he needed the axe to make his living.

The Lord went down into the water and reappeared with a golden axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked.

The woodcutter replied, “No.” The Lord again went down and came up with a silver axe.

“Is this your axe?” the Lord asked. Again, the woodcutter replied, “No.”

The Lord went down again and came up with an iron axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked.

The woodcutter replied, “Yes.”

The Lord was pleased with the man’s honesty and gave him all three axes to keep, and the woodcutter went home happy.

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Some time later the woodcutter was walking with his wife along the riverbank, and his wife fell into the river.

When he cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked him,

“Why are you crying?” “Oh Lord, my wife has fallen into the water!”

The Lord went down into the water and came up with Jennifer Lopez.

“Is this your wife?” the Lord asked. “Yes,” cried the woodcutter.

The Lord was furious. “You lied! That is an untruth!”

The woodcutter replied, “Oh, forgive me, my Lord.. It is a misunderstanding.

You see, if I had said ‘no’ to Jennifer Lopez , You would have come up with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Then if I said ‘no’ to her, you would have come up with my wife.

Had I then said ‘yes,’ you would have given me all three.

Lord, I am a poor man, and am not able to take care of all three wives, so THAT’S why I said yes to Jennifer Lopez.” ************************************************************************************

Love Quotes

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
-Jonathan Carroll, “Outside the Dog Museum”

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you.
-Author Unknown

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.
-Robert Browning

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
-Author Unknown

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
-John Bulwer

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
-Stephen King

A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, A song is no song ’til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay – Love isn’t love ‘Til you give it away.
-Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
-Author Unknown

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
-Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
-Rosemonde Gerard

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
-Author Unknown

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. -Author Unknown

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
-Author Unknown

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
-Author Unknown

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-Oprah Winfrey

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
-Author Unknown

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.
-Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor?
-Oscar Wilde

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
-Author Unknown

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
-Michael Leunig

I’ve fallen in love many times… Always with you.
-Author Unknown

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
-Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
-MASH, Hawkeye

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
-George Moore

My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, both are infinite.
-William Shakespeare

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
-Zora Neale Hurston

I learned the real meaning of love.  Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that’s love, even if it doesn’t seem very exciting.
-Sylvester Stallone

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
-George Jean Nathan

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
-Zelda Fitzgerald

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.  It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.
-Author Unknown

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
-Aerosmith

Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.
-Author Unknown

I love you like crazy, baby ‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
-Pixie Foudre

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
-Author Unknown

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
-From the movie Annie

For twas not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul
-Judy Garland

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
-Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
-Author Unknown