Rural Wisdom
1) Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you can climb, but how well you bounce.
2) Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance.
3) The trouble with a milk cow is that she won’t stay milked.
4) Life is simpler when you plow around the stumps.
5) Don’t skinny dip where there are snapping turtles.
6) Words that soak into your head are whispered, not yelled.
7) Meanness doesn’t happen overnight.
8) Moms and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.
9) Don’t sell you mule to buy a plow.
10) Two can live as cheap as one - if one don’t eat.
11) Don’t corner something meaner than you.
12) It doesn’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
13) Every path has some puddles.
(5) and 11) are my favorites.)
Then we have God’s email:
God was looking down at Earth and saw all the rascally behavior that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check things out.
When that angel returned, he told God, “Yes, it’s bad down there; 95% are misbehaving, the other 5% are not.”
God thought for a moment and said, “Maybe I’d better get a second opinion.”
When that angel reported, “Yes, it’s true - 95% are sinful and only 5% are being good.. The Earth is going to Hell in a handbasket.”
God was not pleased. He decided to email the 5% that were good, because he wanted to encourage them to stay the course and give them a little something to help them along.
Do you know what the email said?
Just wondering, I didn’t get one either.