Are you a Christian?

A lady went into a doctor's office and during her examination the doctor noticed a cross on her neck. The doctor curious about the cross began a conversation with his patient and asked..

"I see you wear a cross around your neck, are you a Christian?"

"Yes," the lady responded to which the doctor replied.

"I am a Catholic and I am disappointed with born again Christians."

"Why?" the lady replied ...

The doctor replied in anger "Because you all talk about Jesus and how great He is but yet you never talk about His mother and I find that offensive."

After a moments silence the lady responded and said ...

"Doctor can I ask you something?"

"Of course," he replied.

The lady smiled and said, "Doctor if I make my next appointment and you are not available can I ask for your mother to come and see me instead?"

Horrified the doctor replied, "Of course you can't. I'm the one who studied medicine. I'm the one who is qualified not my mother, she may have given birth to me, but I'm the one who studied and became qualified. She knows nothing about medicine ..."

The lady responded with a smile and said ...

"That's why I talk about Jesus and not Mary. She didn't qualify to be my Saviour, she didn't die and rise again and she didn't pay the price for my sins ..."

[Thank you, Estelle, for sharing.]

Learn from the turtle ...

1. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
2. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
3. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
4. Dear God, I have a problem, it’s me.
5. Laugh every day, it’s like inner jogging.
6. Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
7. The most important things in your home are the people..
8. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday.
9. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
10. It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
11. Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you’re seeking require courage and risk taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out it’s neck.
12. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Author: Unknown 

Clay Balls

A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man so he took the bag out of the cave with him.

As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could. He thought little about it until he dropped one of the balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone.

Excited the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure.

He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him. He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he just threw it away.

It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling so we discount it. We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person by God.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay.

May we see the people in our world as God sees them.

[Author Unknown]

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