#1005 Wings Over The Mountains of Life
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One Voice
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My wife and I are away on a retreat.
We decided to go to the hotel gym for a workout. The gym was
ultramodern and we were the only ones there. There were five
TV's positioned over the treadmills and exercycles.
She wanted to watch a cooking show.
I wanted to watch a sci-fi program.
She got on the last treadmill on the left, I got on the last
treadmill on the right and we both tuned to different channels.
As we began to run, we both periodically got off the treadmill
to turn up the respective volumes on our TV's. After a few
minutes, both of our televisions were at full volume.
We had clear pictures but the cacophony of noise made it almost
impossible to understand the story.
I now understood why all of the televisions were tuned to the
same channel when we arrived. Too many voices cause you to
misstep and not understand the story.
If you are running (or walking) alongside someone in life, the
story will go a lot smoother if both of you have the same vision
and hear the same sound. When you are on different channels you
both get louder but hear less.
I turned my television off.
Cooking wasn't so bad.
After all, I would benefit from the meals.
Are you on the same channel as the one that you have chosen to
walk through life with?
Let those couples that have eyes see and that have ears hear.
Laugh for the day:
A farmer got pulled over by a state trooper for speeding, and
the trooper started to lecture the farmer about his speed, and
in general began to throw his weight around to try to make the
farmer uncomfortable.
Finally, the trooper got around to writing out the ticket, and
as he was doing that he kept swatting at some flies that were
buzzing around his head.
The farmer said, "Having some problems with circle flies there,
are ya?"
The trooper stopped writing the ticket and said--"Well yeah, if
that's what they are--I never heard of circle flies."
So the farmer says--"Well, circle flies are common on farms.
See, they're called circle flies because they're almost always
found circling around the back end of a horse."
The trooper says, "Oh," and goes back to writing the ticket.
Then after a minute he stops and says,
"Hey...wait a minute, are you trying to call me a horses a.. ?"
The farmer says, "Oh no, officer. I have far too much respect
for law enforcement and police officers to even think about
calling you a horses a.."
The trooper says, "Well, that's a good thing," and goes back to
writing the ticket.
After a long pause, the farmer says, "Hard to fool them flies
though."
Moral of the story: Be kind to others, rudeness and arrogance
shows.
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