Smells like SPAM to me. Please don't send me unsolicited religious stuff. I joined this mailing list for purposes of genealogical research. Thank you for your future consideration. Regards, - --------------------------------------------- Dave Fultz, Jr. gitarzan@mindless.com http://www.iwaynet.net/~gitarzan - --------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Sherman R. Manis <srmanis@westco.net> To: <KYCARTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: [KYCARTER] Spiritual > A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards > sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't > think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have > something to eat." "Is the man of the house home?", they asked. "No", > she said. "He's out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied. > In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had > happened. "Go tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went > out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a House together," they > replied. > "Why is that?" she wanted to know. One of the old men explained: "His > name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said > pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, > "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in > your home." > The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was > overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite > Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!" His wife disagreed. > "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their > daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house. She > jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite > Love? Our home will then be filled with love!" "Let us heed our > daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife. "Go out and > invite Love to be our guest." > The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? > Please come in and be our guest." Love got up and started walking toward > the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady > asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?" > The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the > other > two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He > goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and > Success!!!!! > > This came across my email today and I thought it good food for thought. > How would we react is this was an actual event and happened to us. > > I want to put in this line. From time to time these type emails come to > me from friends, relatives or acquaintances. Some I really like and some > I hit the delete key. If any of you receiving these type of emails from > me would rather I not send them to you please send me a message back and > I will make a list of those who do and a list of the rather nots and try > to make sure I do not send any unwanted mail. I know what it is like to > get a bunch of stuff and a lot of it not asked for and not wanted. So > let me know and I will make two lists, some on the right and some on > the left. > > Sherman > -- > Jesus is Lord of our lives > Sherman and Rodana Manis > visit our web sites: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4348 > http://www.members.tripod.com/srmanis > http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/teddy-bear-ent > In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:1 KJV) >