DOC'S DAILY CHUCKLE 11/3/14
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DOC'S DAILY CHUCKLE
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My niece's baby shower was this week-end. It's good
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If you live in the USA, tomorrow is election day.
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Doc
Today's Chuckles
1. The Ant and the Grasshopper (Retold)
2. Tofu
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The Ant and The Grasshopper (Retold)
By Tomoko Matsuoka
At a primary school, during their weekly class on morals,
ome first-grade students were asked to finish the story of
the hard-working ant and the lazy grasshopper in the way
they thought would be best.
Most of us know this story—one of Aesop’s fables—of how
the Grasshopper wasted the summer months playing his
fiddle while the Ant labored hard storing food for the
winter. When cold finally came, the industrious Ant and
his friends were all safely tucked away with all that
they would need, while the Grasshopper was left to search
for food and found himself dying of hunger.
The six-year-olds were asked to draw a picture of and
rewrite the ending of the story in any way they would
like, but it needed to involve the Grasshopper asking
the Ant for help. About half of the first-graders took
the general view that since the Grasshopper was unde-
serving, the Ant refused to help him. The other half
changed the end to say that the Ant told the Grasshopper
to learn his lesson, and then he gave the Grasshopper
half of what he had.
Then a little boy stood up and gave this version of the
tale: After the Grasshopper came to the Ant and begged
for food, the Ant unhesitatingly gave all the food he
had. Not half or most, but everything. The boy was not
finished, however, and cheerfully continued, “The Ant
didn’t have any food left, so he died. But then the
Grasshopper was so sad that the Ant had died that he
told everyone what the Ant had done to save his life.
And the Grasshopper became a good Grasshopper.”
Two things came to mind when this story was related to
me. First, it reminded me what giving meant to Jesus.
e didn’t go halfway for us, and He didn’t say we were
“undeserving,” but He gave His all so that we could
learn to “be good.” It was only through His total
sacrifice that we were able to receive the gift of
eternal life. It was just the way the Ant died for
the Grasshopper in the six-year-old’s retelling of
the classic tale. And for us it should also not end
there. In gratitude, we should follow His example
and give our all to tell of the wonderful thing He
did for us.
Second, I learned what it means to give your all. It
is not true giving unless it hurts, but when you do
truly give, it will be multiplied many times over.
“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and
dies, it remains alone.” But it doesn’t end there.
Here is the bittersweet promise that makes it all
worthwhile: “But if it dies, it produces much grain.”
(John 12:24)
- By Tomoko Matsuoka
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You can never make the same mistake twice because
the second time you make it, it's not a mistake,
it's a choice. - Steven Denn
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Tofu
A well-dressed man approached a woman at a health food
store and in a clipped British accent asked her exactly
what she did with the tofu in her basket.
She said she normally puts it in the refrigerator, looks
at it for several weeks and then throws it away.
The man replied, "That's exactly what my wife does with
it. I was hoping you had a better recipe."
- from Da Mouse Tracks
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