Greatness Is Not Notification

An elderly lady at a college graduation ceremony overheard two girls discussing how the would someday be so great that statues would be created in their images. She walked up to them, reached in her bag, and pulled out a Bible and a dictionary, gave them both to the girls and said, "Greatness is bestowed on one by way of obedience, and the two of you should look up the word notification!"

The Gift Is Not the Box

A well-raised young man came home from working overseas for about one year; he seemed to be quite happy and excited about a certain young lady he met while over there.

He told his grandfather about how she could be his gift from God because she appears to be very "well wrapped." Grandpa, chewing on some tobacco, spit on the ground, looked him square in the eye, and said, "The gift is not the box!"

We May Need More Caskets

A 90-year-old grandmother received a request from her granddaughter who she hadn’t seen in 16 years to speak at her son’s funeral.

As she was slowly getting out of the limousine in front of the funeral parlor, she notice all of these young kids exiting very expensive automobiles, cell phones in hand, jewelry reflecting in the sun. They were chatting loudly when they entered the building.

When the time had come for her to speak, she looked around, wiping away tears from her eyes. "We may need more caskets," she said.

Grandma Answers the Phone

The phone rings ...

Grandma saying ; "hello!!,, ", sad and gentle voice responds; "grandma,, sigh!!!! I just don't know,  I've lost control of my child, she seems to think she's my age, or more grown than I am, her grandmother replies; "listen baby, remember when you told me your daughter had turned 16 and you were going to try and become her friend", she in low voice answers, yes, grandmother replied; "that’s when your trouble started, teenagers associate friendship with no need for discipline and them having to follow instructions", she replied; "I just wanted to show her I'm there for her", her grandmother saying; "Lord help me, baby, being a parent gives power to your authority for being respected and obeyed, besides; that girl has enough friends already!"

Story by: Coach James Joseph.
"Copyright" 6-15-09 James Joseph. "All rights reserved."

I Win Again!

"Three-thousand to one! I win again!" shouted a demon. A younger demon asked him what game he was playing and he replied, "Demonic Chess."

"How is it played?" asked the younger demon.

"First you choose a family down there on Earth, and the objective is to cut off all paths of communication to their knowledge of God’s destiny for them. Your main strategy is to block lines of communication from the elderly to the youth," replied the older demon.

"But how is it that this certain demon always seem to win?" asked the young demon.

"Ooh that’s Willie Lynch," replied the older demon. "He developed a strategy that he uses to get people to hate or disregard the advice of those who possesses the knowledge of the only way to succeed."

You Can't Move a Dead Horse

A young boy visited his grandparents' farm every summer. One day when he and his mother drove up to the house, his grandfather was in the barn about to bury a horse that had died.

The grandfather came out to chat with the boy's mother. Suddenly the boy said to his grandpa, "PaPa, I've been coming here for six years and I never heard you speak about my father. Mom said you put him out of your house when he was 17 years old."

The grandfather looked at the boy with his mouth full of tobacco and said to him, "Go over there and kick that horse."

He did as his grandpa said, and told him that nothing had happened.

His grandpa responded: "You didn't expect a dead horse to move because you kicked it?"

Must and Should Be the Will to Stand Firm Regardless of the Outcome!

A young man that married the women of his every dream, even accepting her family as it was, would sometimes find himself on the loosing side of disagreements. When it would come time for him to take what he thought was the correct stance in the discussion, it seemed as though he was out of touch and did not understand and that he should have taken a different approach.

But, being raised by both his father and mother who allowed him to see some things differently from others, (this is not to say single parenting leaves one void of such or better insight) he begin to talk to his God asking him for the courage and wisdom to be able to judge fair and firm, without disrupting his family.

A few days after an argument with his wife, the man’s grandmother happen to visit and said, “Son, I see those kids have grown, so I suppose your authority of knowledge are being tested.” Amazed, he looked at her. She then said, “When God gifts a man with a wife it’s also because down the path of life two different opinions are needed in disagreement to be able to come to the right agreement for handling a certain situation at hand. When one has searched deep down in the core of his or her soul and fairly believes that the right decision has been made, there must and should be the will to stand firm regardless of the outcome!

Story inspired by: Today’s so-called “coming into perfect knowledge of the meaning of life upon arrival at the age of eighteen” is the result of the weakening of the bond between both parents.

Watching You in Prayer

I watch you in your everyday struggle. I see the pain you hide to protect your kids, the weight you carry that is really not yours, the responsibilities with which your employer burdens you without fair and just monetary reward. There has to be a Creator that loves you because it is evident in your path of pain. This must seem to you like the time of man’s extinction, but I award you for your courage and pray for your continued strength.

All tests have and end! God Bless!

Possibilities Are the Path for Manifestation

Possibilities are contained in our dreams, and manifestation for probabilities is only attainable when there is the work being done toward these possibilities.

How Could They Hear Me When They Were Screaming Themselves?

A young man sat in his jail cell and thought about how when he was a little boy, he had no male figure to talk to him about anything. All he would see is his mother struggling to make ends meet. School was more brutal then the streets.

He was given assignments, but the books he needed to complete them weren't there. Most of his teachers were worried about finding extra work to help their families.

He remembered how when he began yelling for help, nobody heard him. His life became lonely and dark.

"Now here I am again, screaming, and nobody hears me," thought the young man.

Just then a guard shouted his name and said it was his turn to go to court. At court, the young man watched as men as old as 60 were brought before the judge. When it was his turn, the judge asked him why he was in prison.

The young man replied: "How could they hear me when most of them were screaming themselves?"


Photo: King Chimp

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