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Subject: Re: Scotch-Irish-D Digest V00 #307
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:36:23 EDT
List-Owner -- I loved it! And I'm passing it on to all in my address book.
Evelyn
In a message dated 06/14/2000 2:20:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
writes:
> List-Owner -- Please. I do not care for this kind of email and hoped to be
> safe on this list.
>
> Frances Magrabi
>
>
> At 08:54 PM 6/13/00 -0400, orrmail wrote:
> >There once was a man named George Thomas, a pastor in a small New England
> >town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty,
> >bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Several eyebrows were
> raised
> >and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak.. "I was walking
> >through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging
> this
> >bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds,
> >shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, "What you
got
> >there son?" "Just some old birds," came the reply.. "What are you gonna
> do
> >with them?" I asked.. "Take 'em home and have fun with 'em," he answered.
> >I'm gonna tease' em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm
> >gonna have a real good time." "But you'll get tired of those birds sooner
> >or later. What will you do then?" "Oh, I got some cats," said the little
> >boy.. "They like birds. I'll take'em to them." The pastor was silent
> for
> >a moment. "How much do you want for those birds, son?" "Huh??!!! Why, you
> >don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old field birds. They
> >don't sing - they ain't even pretty!" "How much?" the pastor asked
again..
> >The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, "$10?" The
> pastor
> >reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it in the
> >boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone. The pastor picked up the cage
and
> >gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a
> >grassy spot. Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly
> >tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free. Well, that
> >explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to
> >tell this story..
> >
> >One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had come from
the
> >Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting.. "Yes, sir, I just
> caught
> >the world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they
> >couldn't resist. Got 'em all!" "What are you going to do with them?"
> Jesus
> >asked.. Satan replied, "Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how
> to
> >marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to
> drink
> >and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and
> >kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!" "And what will you do when
> you
> >get done with them?" Jesus asked.. "Oh, I'll kill 'em," Satan glared
> >proudly.. "How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked.. "Oh, you don't
> >want those people. They ain't no good.
> >Why, you'll take them and they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you,
curse
> >you and kill you!! You don't want those people!!" "How much?" He asked
> >again.. Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, "All your tears, and all your
> >blood." Jesus said, "DONE!" Then He paid the price.. The pastor picked
up
> >the cage he opened the door and he walked from the pulpit..
> >
> >Notes: Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then
> >wonder why the world's going to hell.. Isn't it funny how we believe what
> >the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Isn't it funny how
> >everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe,
think,
>
> >say, or do anything the Bible says.. Or is it scary? Isn't it funny how
> >someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the
> >way, also "believes" in God).. Isn't it funny how you can send a thousand
> >jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start
> >sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
> >Isn't it funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through
> >cyberspace, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school
> >and workplace.. FUNNY, ISN'T IT? Isn't it funny how someone can be so
> fired
> >up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the
> >week.. Are you laughing? Isn't it funny how when you go to forward this
> >message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're
> >not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it
> to
> >them. Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people
> >think of me than what God thinks of me..
> >
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