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Judy Smith

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Re: The Wooden Bowl - Food For Thought (1/27/2007)
2/2/2007 7:13:40 AM

You are so right, Marion!  The older my Mother got the better her stories, though we did have to listen to a few of them over and over.  I remember them so well now that they are probably the stories I will be telling my children and grandchildren as I grow old!  What goes around comes around - or maybe I just didn't fall too far from the tree, which I consider and honor and priviledge.

God bless!

Judy

 

 

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Re: The Wooden Bowl - Food For Thought (1/27/2007)
2/3/2007 4:07:29 PM

Hi Sis Marion ,

Great story  Thank you  so glad I got to read this one in the same month it was posted  lol :-)  Gods Blessing and speed  my friend :-) Lee

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Re: The Wooden Bowl - Food For Thought (1/27/2007)
2/3/2007 9:54:50 PM
    I heard that story when I was in Sunday School, Marion. Thanks for reminding me, I am having dinner wih my son and his family tomorrow and they still let me eat at the table!
Here is a nice story I picked up recently, I hope you like it

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends
of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect
and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the
cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing
home only one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection,
and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to
do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke
to the woman one day by the stream.
"I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water
to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your
side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?"
"That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted
flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."
"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
 Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to
grace the house."

 Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each
have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

 

SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell
the flowers on your side of the path!

And send this to any or all of your Cracked Pot friends within 5 minutes
and see what happens!  Don't forget the person that sent it to you!

 


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Re: The Wooden Bowl - Food For Thought (1/27/2007)
2/5/2007 1:40:32 PM
Hi Ian,

Wonderful story!!  Thank you so much for contributing here. 

Judy, I lost both my parents in the last few years so I know where you
are coming from. 

I wish you all a very Blessed week and thanks again for coming.

God Bless!
Marion


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Re: The Wooden Bowl - Food For Thought (1/27/2007)
2/16/2007 9:39:50 PM

Hi Marion,

    What a wonderful story. Thank you so much for sharing.

It really makes you stop and think.

Your Good Friend

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