With two weeks back-to-back of camp leadership, I am just about brain-fried. I can offer no salient words of wisdom, no pithy prose. I have no energy for creative thought or humorous musings. Therefore, I unashamedly provide this explanation into the meaning of life as sent to me via email by one of my Bible study friends. Enjoy, for I can guarantee it will be better reading than anything I could put forth today.
On the first day, God created the dog and said:
‘Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’
The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I ‘ll give you back the other ten?’
So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said: ‘Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.’
The monkey said: ‘Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?’
And God agreed.
On the third day, God created the cow and said: ‘You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.’
The cow said: ‘That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?’
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day, God created man and said: ‘Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.’
But man said: ‘Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?’
‘Okay,’ said God, ‘You asked for it.’
So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you.
I love you! Just when I think my day is so going in the crapper, I decide to stop at the library for a book to pass this way to hot day away, and for the heck of it log on to see how your summer is going. And sweet wonderful you make my day 1 year and 2 months away from 50 I now KNOW why I feel like a cow who would give the monkey and the old dog a run to be put out to pasture. Can you give me that fool address so I can give him a cow pasture present for all THE YEARS ahead of more sweat and hard work? (HAHA)
THANK YOU FOR MAKING TODAY BEARABLE