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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/22/2008 2:17:24 AM

Marie M.

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Just A Few Drops
Author Unknown

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields. Lately this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn't see some rain soon... we would lose everything.

It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes. I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn't walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort...trying to be as still as possible.

Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. I went back to making sandwiches, thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour. He would walk carefully to the woods, run back to the house. Finally I couldn't take it any longer and I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey (being very careful not to be seen...as he was obviously doing important work and didn't need his Mommy checking up on him).

He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to spill the water he held in them...maybe two or three tablespoons were held in his tiny hands. I sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns slapped his little face but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much higher purpose. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site. Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him...he didn't even move as Billy knelt down. And I saw a tiny fawn laying on the ground, obviously suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand.

When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house and I hid behind a tree. I followed him back to the house, to a spigot that we had shut off the water to. Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip, drip slowly fill up his makeshift "cup," as the sun beat down on his little back. And it came clear to me. The trouble he had gotten into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he had received about the importance of not wasting water. The reason he didn't ask me to help him.

It took almost twenty minutes for the drops to fill his hands. When he stood up and began the trek back, I was there in front of him. His little eyes just filled with tears. "I'm not wasting," was all he said.

As he began his walk, I joined him...with a small pot of water from the kitchen. I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed away. It was his job.

I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops...and more drops...and more. I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, himself, was weeping with pride.

Some will probably say that this was all just a huge coincidence. That miracles don't really exist. That it was bound to rain sometime. And I can't argue with that...I'm not going to try. All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm...just like the actions of one little boy saved another.

I don't know if anyone will read this...but I had to send it.... To honor the memory of my beautiful Billy, who was taken from me much too soon.... but not before showing me the true face of God, in a little sunburned body.

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/23/2008 10:29:42 PM

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The Bathtub Test
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 12:17:21 AM

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Hello Joe, I would have guessed the bucket, I would like a window view. LOL. Thanks.

Marie

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 12:40:21 AM

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My strength is from God.

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 12:46:03 AM

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How beautiful it is to do nothing,
and then rest afterward.

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:00:53 AM

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You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:11:21 AM

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        "So Teach Us To Number Our Days,
                          That We May
        Apply Our Hearts Unto Wisdom."

Psalm 90:12

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:18:55 AM

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Amusing puns and double-meanings

The pun (a humourous device exploiting two words or expressions sounding the same with two different meanings, usually with two different spellings) is one of the great wonders of the English language. For anyone who seeks to demonstrate the confusing nature of English words and phrases, these examples of funny and clever puns will likely serve your needs.

Serious campers are intense.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Sports people can avoid the pain of defeat by wearing comfortable shoes.

Poetry written upside-down is inverse; poetry of very few lines is universal.

A girl who screamed and shouted for a pony got a little hoarse.

The carpenter's heavy tools were uncomfortable so he got a little sore.

The days of the pocket diary are numbered.

Lions eat their prey fresh and roar.

Geometry holds clues for the meaning of life; look and you will see the sines.

You can't beat a pickled egg.

If a leopard could cook would he ever change his pots?

See one melée of unruly people and you've seen a maul.

Do hungry time-travellers ever go back four seconds?

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:38:56 AM

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Doctor, Doctor Jokes

"Doctor, doctor, my little boy's swallowed a bullet. What shall I do?
Well, for a start, don't point him at me."

"Doctor, doctor, I've lost my memory. When did it happen?
When did what happen? "

"Doctor, doctor, my wooden leg is giving me a lot of pain.
Why's that?
My wife keeps hitting me over the head with it."

"Doctor, doctor, my hair's coming out. Can you give me something to keep it in?
Certainly - how about a paper bag?"

"Doctor, doctor, people keep ignoring me.
Next, please!"

"Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains.
Pull yourself together!"

"Doctor, doctor, I feel like a bridge.
What's come over you?
Two cars and a bus!"

"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a spoon.
Sit there and don't stir."

"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a billiard ball.
Get back in the queue."

"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a pack of cards.
I'll deal with you later."

"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking there's two of me.
One at a time, please."

"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking I'm a dog.
Lie down on the couch and I'll examine you.
I can't. I'm not allowed on the furniture."

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:44:32 AM

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Rainbows

Rainbows would never be Rainbows

If Sunshine had never met rain

No one would ever need comfort

If there was no sadness or pain

But life holds both sunshine and showers

The days aren't all bright and fair

So look through the showers for Rainbows

You'll always find hope shining there

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/24/2008 1:58:25 AM

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Living and Giving

Whatever you give away today, or think or say or do will multiply about tenfold and then return to you.

It may not come immediately, nor from the obvious source but the law applies unfailingly, through some invisible force.

Whatever you feel about another, be it love or hate or passion will surely bounce right back to you in some clear (or secret) fashion.

If you speak about some person, a word of praise or two, soon, tens of other people will speak kind words of you.

Our thoughts are broadcasts of the soul, not secrets of the brain. Kind ones bring us happiness; petty ones, untold pain.

Giving works as surely as reflections in a mirror. If hate you send, hate you'll get back, but loving brings love nearer.

Remember, as you start this day and duty crowds your mind, that kindness comes so quickly back to those who first are kind. Let that thought and this one direct us through each day.

The only things we ever keep are the things we give away.

--- Author Unknown

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/25/2008 1:42:24 AM

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GOD PLEASE SPEAK TO ME...

The doubting man said,

"God, please speak to me."

And a meadowlark sang her pretty song.
But, the man did not hear it.

Then this man yelled,

"God please speak to me."

Thunder thrashed across the sky,

the man did not listen to it.

The man looked around and said,

"God please let me see you."

And the stars shined ever so brightly.

But the man did not notice them shining.

And then the man shouted,

"God please show me a miracle."

And, a new life was born.

But the man did not know it.

Then, the man cried out in total despair,

"Touch me God please so I know you are here with me"

Then God reached down and touched the man.

But, the man brushed away the beautiful butterfly

and had walked on.

So, try to remember, do not miss out on a blessing

because it may not be packaged the way you thought it would be.

Take notice of the blessings around you every day.

listen

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/25/2008 1:47:53 AM

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Butterfly video

http://photobucket.com/video/butterfly/SebastianSweet/Butterfly.flv?o=14

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/25/2008 2:07:56 AM

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Butterfly, Mariah Carey

http://photobucket.com/video/butterfly/lalouisa/d3dad4d9.flv?o=4

(Use full size to get maximum effect.)

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/26/2008 3:12:18 AM

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The Rose Within

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and before it blossomed, he examined it.
He saw the bud that would soon blossom, but noticed thorns upon the stem and he thought, "How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp thorns?

Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and just before it was ready to bloom... it died.

So it is that way with many people. Within every soul there is a rose.

The God-like qualities planted in us at birth, grow amid the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects.

We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential.

Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns of another, and find the rose within them.

This is one of the characteristic of love... to look at a person, know their true faults and accepting that person into your life... all the while recognizing the nobility in their soul. Help others to realize they can overcome their faults. If we show them the "rose" within themselves, they will conquer their thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over.

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/26/2008 3:24:15 AM

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Q. Everyone has these on their face, what is it?

A. Tulips.

Tulip video

http://photobucket.com/video/tulips/sherudosaj/a1a4ffea.pbr?o=5

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/26/2008 4:31:09 AM

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Q. What kind of socks does a gardener wear?

A. Garden hose.

Q. If April showers bring May flowers,
what do May flowers bring?

A. Pilgrims.

What happens when frogs park illegally?

They get toad.

Did you ever walk into a room and and forget why you walked in?

That's how dogs spend their lives.

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RE: Laughter and the Positive Effects - 4/26/2008 4:34:00 AM

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