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There once was a village that had among it’s people, a very wise old man.  The villagers trusted this wise man to provide them answers to their questions and concerns.

One day, a farmer in the village went to the wise man and said in a frantic tone, “Wise man, help me.  A horrible thing has happened.  My ox has died and I have no animal to help me plow my field!  Isn’t this the worst thing that could possibly have happened?”  The wise old man replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.”  the farmer hurried back to the village and reported that the wise man had gone mad.  Surely this was the worst thing that could have happened.  Why couldn’t the wise man see this?

The very next day however, a strong, young horse was seen near the man’s farm.  Because the man had no ox to rely on, he had the idea he would catch the horse to replace his ox - and he did!  How joyful the farmer was.  Plowing the field had never been easier.  He went back to the wise man to apologize.

“You were right wise man.  Losing my ox wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened.  It was a blessing in disguise.  I never would have captured my new horse had that not happened.  You must agree that this is the best thing that could have happened.”  The wise man replied once again, “Maybe so, maybe not.”  Not again, thought the farmer.  Surely the wise man had gone mad now.

But once again, the farmer did not know what was to happen.  A few days later, the farmer’s son was riding the horse and was thrown off.  He broke his leg and would not be able to help with the crop.  Oh no, thought the farmer.  Now we will starve to death.  Once again, the farmer went to see the wise man.   This time he said, “How did you know that capturing my horse was not a good thing?  You were right again.  My son is injured and won’t be able to help with the crop.  This time I am sure this is the worst thing that could have possibly happened.  You must agree this time.”   But just as he had done before, the wise man calmly looked at the farmer and in a compassionate tone replied once again, “Maybe so, maybe not.”   Enraged that the wise man could be so ignorant, the farmer stormed back to the village.

The next day, troops arrived to take every able-bodied man to the war that had just broken out.  the farmer’s son was the only young man in the village who didn’t have to go.  He would live while the others would surely die.  The moral of the story: We don’t know what’s going to happen - we just think we do.  Author Unknown

Things happen.  Life happens.  We, as humans are generally negative and most times look for or expect the worst of a situation.

Most of the time, the scenarios were create in our minds about the terrible things that are going to happen, do not happen.   Yes, life hands us difficulties and troubles, but many time these are blessings in disguise.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington

Gina

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Here is an Inspirational Story that demonstrates the power of our minds and our inherit ability to change our world according to our beliefs.   It’s all in what you believe is possible!

Anything At All

I took a ten evening course on goals and the first night the instructor gave us a blank booklet and said, “Write down a goal you have.”  And then she said, “Okay, write down another one.”  This went on for about ten minutes and we were all getting a bit bored.  And then she said, “Write down another one.”  This went on for the entire three hours!  All she said was, “Write down a goal.”  “Okay, write down a goal.  Don’t use the fact that you can’t think of another one to not write down the next goal.  Just keep writing.”  For three hours!

When it was all over, she said, “Okay, now I want you to do a special thing.  I want you to write down a goal, but this one is special.  On this one you can wave a magic wand and write down anything you want.  It doesn’t have to obey the law.  It doesn’t have to obey gravity.  It doesn’t have to live up to any requirement of anything. Just imagine you have a magic wand.”

Now remember, I had been writing goals for three hours. Everything I could think of: money, health, relationships, travel - anything I could think of for three hours.  So I said to myself, “Okay, it doesn’t have to obey the law.  Okay, I want to live in a whole house full of beautiful naked women.”  It was embarrassing, but that’s what I wrote down.  I didn’t tell anybody this for ten years. I had been dredging my mind to think of anything I could for three hours so I just made that up.

Sandra, the instructor said, “Okay, I’ll meet you back here one week from today for the next class, and by the way, that last one is the one that will get fulfilled.”  Everyone in the room gasped.

When we returned to class a week later, I was absolutely shocked. During that week I had met a woman, Carla, who later became my second wife.  We went on a date and I went nuts over her and asked her if I could stay overnight.  She said “Yes.”

I stayed overnight and in the morning, her daughters –she had two little girls– came running in bare naked and of course, Carla was in bed with me naked.  I said, “Oh my God!  I’m in a house full of beautiful naked women!”  Except of course, two of them were two and four years old!  I guess I forgot to be specific enough in my request.

So I came to the class and the instructor says, “Put up your hand if you remember the very last goal that you wrote down that was totally outrageous and didn’t obey gravity or the law or anything.  Pup your hand if it has already came true in one week!”  Fifty of us - one quarter of all the people in the room - put our hands up.

She said, “I’ve done this many times.  It’s the last one you wrote that always comes true. It is because I am the teacher and because I said it with total conviction.  I didn’t try to convince you of it, in which case you could be skeptical; I just announced it as an obvious fact.”   Of course, none of us had believed her at the time, and yet one quarter of the people in the room had achieved their goal.

We had goose bumps because people jumped up and said what their goals had been.  The wanted their income to go up by a factor of ten.  They wanted a sixty foot yacht, and meanwhile they were just a social worker or teacher.  And in the intervening week, some relative they didn’t know had died and they inherited a sixty foot yacht.   Our jaws dropped open for every one of them because originally Sandra had specifically said, “Make sure it doesn’t obey gravity of have any restrictions of law or anything.”  So we went totally wild.

Then she said something even more shocking.  She said, “By the way, it happened because you all believed me.”  I stood up and said, “Sandra, I want to understand something.  If you had said a different one, then that’s the one that one quarter of us would have fulfilled?”  She said, “Yeah, sometimes I say it’s the third one that you wrote down.”

Everybody in the room opened their books to read the third one because we could just as easily have had that instead.  We were sitting there totally stunned.

There were people in the room who were crying.  She had told us that second evening that there’s nothing out there.  There are no rules and ther’s no law.   It’s not that we’re lawless,  it’s rather that you create with your mind so powerfully.  It’s all in what you believe is possible.  - Raymond R.

Just coincidence or true?  Just some far-fetched fairy tale or a true testimony of the power of our subconscious mind?

It is certainly true.  We do have the ability at our fingertips to achieve all we could desire.  We can turn our lives around and reap the riches of a truly well-lived life.  All we need do is believe!

Gina

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I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.” - Quincy Jones

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 -  These men Have Jobs.

She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 -  These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

‘That’s nice,’  she thinks, ‘but I want more.’ So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.

‘Wow,’ she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.

‘Oh, mercy me!’ she ex claims, ‘I can hardly stand it!’  Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 -  These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

PLEASE NOTE: To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a New Wives Store just across the street.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex and have money and like beer.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. - Anna Fellows Johnston

Gina

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