12/27/12

                                                              THE SHOEBOX

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years.
They had shared everything. They had talked about everything.
They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little Old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but One day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside.
She agreed that it was time that he should know what was In the box.
When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls And a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.

'When we were to be married,' she said, ' my grandmother told me
The secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that If I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.'
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two Precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two Times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with Happiness.
'Honey,' he said, 'that explains the doll, but what about all of this money?
Where did it come from?'
'Oh,' she said, 'that's the money I made from selling the dolls.'


A Prayer...
Dear Lord, I pray for Wisdom to understand my man;
Love to forgive him; And Patience for his moods;
Because Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll beat him to death,  Because I don't have time to crochet.

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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You may fool all of the people some of the time ;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time ;
but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't know what will be used in the next world war, 
but the 4th will be fought with stones.
Albert Einstein

Success is getting what you want; 
happiness is wanting what you get.
 Dale Carnegie         

Common sense is not so common
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