MORTIFICATION:

from my lost friend in tagged.com

       Every night around six, a tired- looking man used to board the 42nd street tram in New York- and each evening he would remark to the conductor that his feet hurt.

       One night the conductor asked him why he didn't buy another pair of shoes if the ones he had worn so long were uncomfortable. 

       "Well, it's this way," the man said, "I have so little in life. A year ago my wife left me. My son is in jail. My daughter ran away from home. And the only comfort I have is when I get home each night is to take off these shoes."

PRAYER LIKE TELEPHONE

       Each Sunday the minister called the children to the front of the church while he told them a story. One day, he brought a telephone to better illustrate the idea of prayer.

       "You talk to people on the telephone & don't see them on the other end of the line, right?" he began with the story. The children nodded yes. "Well, talking to God is like talking on the telephone. He's on the other end, but you can't see Him. He's litenong, though...."

        Just then a small boy suddenly stood up and asked, "What's His number?"

AUTRUISM

from my lost friend in tagged.com

       A little girl was walking along the city street w/ her grandfather. They came up t o agarden fence that was covered with beautiful red roses. Pulling in a deep breath, the little girl said, "Grandpa can you smell those roses? Aren't they nice?"

       Then the two of them heard the voice of an elderly lady who was sitting on the veranda. "Take all you want," the voice said.

       So both the gradpa and his granddaughter took a rose a piece & thanked the elderly lady & praised her flowers.

       Then she explained, "I grow those roses purposely to make other people happy. I can't see them myself. I'm blind, but I can see how others appreciate the flowers."

- as they say we experience tranquility of happiness if others appreciate the works we have done whatever the outcome is--

NOT CONTAGIOUS

Requested the patient, "Doctor is there anything wrong with me? Please don't frighten me me half to death by giving it a long scientific name. Just tell it to me in plain english.

       "Well", the doctor replied hesitantly, "to be perfectly frank, you are just plain lazy."

       "Thank you, doctor," announced the patient. "Now, give me the scientific name for it so I can tell my family."

this is a lazy cat but he is too cute:))