SC - Fwd: FW: kids
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 13 09:39:59 PDT 2000
After all this talk about kids making folks grey, I thought I might pass
this along. It came from a co-worker and I thought it timely.
Olwen (who is serving Mexican Chocolate Bread, with honey butter, to office
mates~as I write)
>Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the
>thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to God's kids.
>>After creating
> > heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing
> >>God
> > said was: "Don't".
> >
> > "Don't what?" Adam replied.
> >
> > "Don't eat the forbidden fruit," God said.
> >
> > "Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, we got forbidden
> >>fruit!"
> >
> > "No way!"
> >
> > "Yes way!"
> >
> > "Don't eat that fruit!" said God.
> >
> > "Why?"
> >
> > "Because I am your Father and I said so!" said God, wondering why he
>hadn't
> > stopped after making the elephants. A few minutes later God saw his kids
> > having an apple break and was angry.
> >
> > "Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit?" the God asked.
> >
> > "Uh huh," Adam replied.
> >
> > "Then why did you?"
> >
> > "I dunno" Eve answered.
> >
> > "She started it!" Adam said.
> >
> > "Did not!"
> >
> > "Did too!"
> >
> > "DID NOT!!"
> >
> > Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and
>Eve
> > should have children of their own. Thus, the pattern was set and it has
> > never changed. But there is reassurance in this story. If you have
> > persistently and lovingly tried to give them wisdom and they haven't
>taken
> > it, don't be hard on yourself. If God had trouble handling children,
>what
> > makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
> >
> > Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache,
>do
> > what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two and keep away from
>children.
> >
>
>
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