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Hi All .
Just filling in time till I go and pick up my pizzas for dinner. It's Sunday evening an no one wants to cook. Do you ever have them days. But if your having a bake let me know and I'll invite myself over. With what I have posted I have been called a Cracked Pot before but this gives another side to the words.
God Bless...
Lionel
Cracked Pots
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house"
Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
Just filling in time till I go and pick up my pizzas for dinner. It's Sunday evening an no one wants to cook. Do you ever have them days. But if your having a bake let me know and I'll invite myself over. With what I have posted I have been called a Cracked Pot before but this gives another side to the words.
God Bless...
Lionel
Cracked Pots
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house"
Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
And this also reminds me of the AA saying, "We're here because we're not all there". lol
Love this stuff!!
Thanks...
~Chris
Not as well excepted in a open meeting Anymore ,,,But i still like It:)
Yours, has a far -eastern flare to it my favorite....
Billy
Karen
Kids eat cheese pizza here, or pepperoni. I don't like pepperoni, I like veggies like mushrooms, olives, onions & tomatoes..yum!
I do like ham & pineapple though on occasion, we call that a "Hawaiian pizza" here. :)
We had the Ham and pineapple,Meat lovers and just cheese for the grandchildren plus some garlic bread and wicked wings. Though I would have traded it to be at Karen' s yum. Hope you all enjoyed the evening.
The last line of cracked pots says
You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them
I asked every morning in my prayers that I might be given the ability to look for the good in people ,places things and situations.
And it's amazing what you find when you look.
God Bless...
Lionel