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 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 their cow die."

"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.

"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I 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 farmer's bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I told him to take the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."


by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

The Swing (Robert Louis Stevenson)

We all learned this poem because my mother quoted it often. To this day, I cannot swing without quoting it, either aloud or in my head.

The History of Aprons

I don't think some kids know what an apron Is. The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath,because she only had a Few,it was easier to wash aprons than dresses And they used less material, but along with That, it served as a potholder for removing Hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around Her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out The hulls. In the gall, the apron was used to bring in apples that Had fallen from the trees. Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was Surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, grandma walked out onto the Porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

(Author Unknown)

God's Masterpiece

Produced by,The Skit Guys

Austin Sheffield's Happy Birthday Message to Uncle Gordon

DAY 35: "60 Days To 60"
(Austin shares Gordon's birthday. Austin will be two years old!)

The King of Makeovers

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries "A Life That Matters" Radio Program #8346

The King of Makeovers - #8346

MAKE MINE FREEDOM (1948)

WATCH AND PASS ALONG TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

Elderly Woman Witnesses To Robber

On Gaining Wisdom

The Strangest Secret (Earl Nightingale Recitation)

S. M. I. L. E. !!!!!!!!

This is the kind of "education" I grew up with. Gee. No wonder I'm the way that I am! (Thank you, God!)

Left Brain/Right Brain Experience

We Fall Down, Get Up

Prayer For The Soul

Lord Jesus, I ask You to enter this person who has need of Your healing. I rejoice that as the light of your love now fills this mansion of the soul, all darkness shall flee. Look and see, O Lord, whether there be any ugly pictures on the walls—pictures of old distressful and horrifying wounds of the past. And if there be such pictures, take them down and give to this memory-housepictures of beauty and joy.

Go back, O Lord, through all the rooms of this
memory-house. Open every closed door and see if there be any dirty and broken thing that is no
longer needed. And if so, O Lord, take it away
completely. Go back even to the years of
childhood. Open windows long sealed and let in the gentle sunlight of Your love. Take a broom of mercy and sweep away the shame of ancient memories.

Follow the soul of this Your child all the way back
to the hour of birth and heal even the pain and fear
of being born. I pray that You will restore this
soul as You made it and will quicken it in all those
creative impulses that you have placed therein, so
that Your purpose may be fulfilled.

I give thanks, O Lord, knowing that this healing of
the soul is Your will and is the very purpose for
giving of Your life for us….and that therefore it
is even now being accomplished.

(Author Unknown)

My Treasure (Scott Wesley Brown)

My Treasure - Scott Wesley Brown

[Les Miserables] 10th anniversary - I Dreamed a Dream

The Little Red Hen (in a Democratic barnyard)

The little red hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?'

'Not I,' said the cow.

'Not I,' said the duck.

'Not I,' said the pig.

'Not I,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck..

'Out of my classification,' said the pig.

'I'd lose my seniority,' said the cow..

'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.

'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.

'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.

'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.

'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.'

'Excess profits!' cried the cow (Nancy Pelosi)

'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)

'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)

The pig just grunted in disdain (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, 'You must not be so greedy.'

'But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.


'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.'

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, 'I am grateful, for now I truly understand.'

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

(original version by Ethel C. Fenig)