Healthy? Wealthy?

Jack has died. His lawyer is standing before the family and reads Jack's last will and testament.

"To my dear wife, Esther, I leave the house, 50 acres of land, and $1 million. To my son, Barry, I leave my big Lexus and the Jaguar. To my daughter, Suzy, I leave my yacht and $250,000. And to my brother-in-law, Jeff, who always insisted that health is better than wealth, I leave my sun lamp."

Prayer for the Day

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

-- Thomas Merton

Hopefully A-MOO-sing

A city fellow was tooling down a country road when h is car sputtered to a complete stop near a field filled with cows. The driver, getting out to see what was the matter, noticed one of the cows looking at him. "I believe it's your radiator," said the cow. Well, the man nearly jumped out of his skin, and running to the nearest farmhouse, knocked on the door and shouted, "A cow just gave me advice about my car!" as he pointed frantically back at the field.

The farmer nonchalantly leaned out beyond the door frame to glance down at the field. "The cow with two big black spots on it?" the farmer asked slowly.

"Yes! Yes! That's the one!" the excited man replied.

"Oh, Well, that's Betsy," the farmer said, turning back to the man. "Don't pay any attention to her. She doesn't know a darn thing about cars."

Uh-oh!

In 1978, British firefighters were on strike, and the army filled the gap. One afternoon, the replaacement firefighters got a call to rescue a cat caught high in a tree. The soldiers rushed to the scene, put up a ladder, brought down the cat and gave it back to the owner. The woman was so grateful that she invited them in for tea, an invitation they accepted. After a wonderful time, they said goodbye, got in the truck and backed away -- over the cat.

Which prompts the question, "Could that rescue mission really be considered a success?"

From The Book of Heroic Failures

Oh my ...

This story is told by Don Lipinski, elementary school teacher:

In one recent fifth-and-sixth grade social studies class, we were discussing explorers and their routes. One insightful student asked me if I thought people in this era of history were smarter than people in recent history or even today. I responded by telling the class that I believed you could place certain individuals in any place in history and they would be smart. One of the examples I used was Einstein. After finishing my example, another student shouted out, "Einstein was real?"

True Greatness

If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a month, get married. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, inherit a fortune. If you want to be happy for eternity, help others. Whoever want to be first must be last of all and servant of all.

-- Carl F. Schultz, Jr.