The Perfect Heart

The Perfect Heart

One day a boy was standing on the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful and fresh heart in the valley. A large crowd gathered and they all accepted his heart for it was perfect heart. There was not any mark or defect in it.

The crowd agreed that it was the perfect and fresh heart that they had ever seen. The boy was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful, fresh, and perfect heart. Suddenly, an old man appeared in the crowd and said,
"Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine?" The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart.

It was beating strongly. It was full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed, and other pieces put in. But they didn't fit quite right and there were several rough edges. In fact, in some places there were deep scratch where whole pieces were missing.

The people started- how can he say his heart is perfect? And so on. The young man looked at old man's heart and saw its condition and laughed.
He said, "You must be joking. Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect, and yours is broken and full of wound and tears."

"Yes" said the old man.

"Yours is perfect looking and I would never deal with you. But you see every scares in my heart represents the person to whom I have given my love- I tear out my piece of my heart and give it to them and often they give me a piece of their heart, I fit into the empty place of my heart. But because the pieces are not exact, I have some rough edges, which I appreciate because they remind me the love we shared together. Some times I have given my heart away and they didn't. So, I have some empty scratch. Although these scratch are painful, it stays open. Reminding me of love I have for these people. And I hope someday they may return and fill the space I am waiting. So, now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks, walked up to the old man and took a piece from his heart and handed to the old man with his trembling hands. The old man took his gift and placed it in his heart and took a piece from his and placed it in the wounded young man's heart.
It fits but not perfectly, as there were some rough edges.
The young man looked his heart. Not perfect anymore but more beautiful than he ever saw. Since love from old man flowed to his heart. They hold their arms and walked side by side together.

Kind of like my Thanksgiving...

It's a pretty thing isn't it

I remember seeing this when I was a kid. Not the year it was televised but sometime down the road after that. This and the Star Wars Christmas special ranked 1 and 2 in my "Trippy in a good way Christmas stuff" list for quite some time.

Santa's message to Holden

Tradition - Christmas music (free download)

White Christmas

Psalm 109:8

Beautiful

Pray for Obama bumper sticker

Veterans Day

Thank you to our veterans. Today and every day.

It is foolish & wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived. - George S. Patton

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Sir Winston S. Churchill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. - John Stuart Mill

It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country ... in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, and they gave up two lives -- the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their country, for us. All we can do is remember. - Ronald Reagan

If Patton Were Alive Today

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

Don't Wait 2009 Special Edition

Available for free today in memory of the events of 9/11/01.

In honor of the anniversary of 9/11

The Government Can

Psalm 4:8

The difference between knowing this and letting it happen is harder at times than others. Not a fan if those harder times. Not at all.
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Today's word of the day: e-mail courier

The Urban Dictionary word of the day. Good to know that there's an accepted term for these people that I hate with such a passion.

Email Courier
An individual who approaches someone's desk or workstation in a work environment almost immediately after sending them an email, usually to confirm that the email has been received.
Bill: I just sent you an email. Did you get it?
Mike: Probably, I haven't checked.
Bill: Can you check?
Mike: Uh yeah, looks like I got it.
Bill: Thoughts?
Mike: My immediate thoughts are you're an email courier and a douchebag.

Ronald Reagan on socialized medicine

Inertia wins

Funny? Painfully close to home? I can't decide.

Thomas Paine quote

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine