On the first day, God cre­ated the dog and told him:
‘Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at any­one who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.’
The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be bark­ing. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?’
So God agreed.
On the sec­ond day, God cre­ated the mon­key and told him:
‘Enter­tain peo­ple, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.’
The mon­key said: ‘Monkey …

Got this from my friend Paolo Dy. This is so cool! I’m tag­ging peo­ple who read this blog who have the time to do this. Hehe.

I first heard this story from a Jesuit priest when I was in High School. I remem­ber he asked the choir to play Twin­kle Twin­kle Lit­tle Star before he said the homily. I also remem­ber Fr. Bill Abbott, SJ send­ing me an email and end­ing with this story when I was teach­ing in Cebu. I got this a third time in the email the other day. Third time’s the charm, and so I’m post­ing it:

Wish­ing to encour­age her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski con­cert. After they were seated, the mother spot­ted an old friend in the audi­ence and walked down the aisle to greet her.

Four­teen months in the mak­ing, 42 coun­tries, and a cast of thou­sands. Where the Hell is Matt this time?

This arti­cle is from Rick War­ren, the author of The Purpose-Driven Life. I must say that this is a bril­liant arti­cle that makes you learn from the Mas­ter Himself.