Friday, March 25, 2011

Recently I took my little boy to a local coffee house to watch some "kindie" music. I met a woman there with a daughter close to his age, and we decided to walk to a neighborhood park nearby so the kids could play together. Well, they started playing the game "Ring Around the Rosy" and we got to talking about how creepy and morbid many nursery rhymes are! The fact that they have been passed on through generations is amazing... I don't think anyone would get away with writing them today. "Ring around the Rosy" is actually about the Black Plague! The early symptoms of rosy-red ring-shaped rashes, using posies to mask the horrible stench, and dying. Fun stuff. And what about Rock-a-bye, Baby? Nothing like having your baby's cradle come crashing down from a treetop. But I love these songs, don't you?

Happy Friday! Enjoy!

Staci
Staci@aQuiretraining.com

Some good advice...

A young missionary on his first trip to Africa is away from camp having devotions in a quiet clearing, as was his custom. This one particular day, while reading his Bible, a lion comes and lays down right beside him; so close that the hot warm smell of his breath is wafting over him.

He is, as you would suppose, exceedingly uneasy. He closes his eyes, praying... but when he opens them he sees another approach from the brush, which proceeds to lie down on the other side of him.

Convinced as he is that this is a test of his faith, he determines to return to his Bible reading. As soon as he does so, the two lions pounce upon and devour him.

Moral of the story: Don't read between the lions.

See what I mean? 



A rosy riddle...

There once was an evil wizard. He took three women from their homes and turned them into rose bushes that looked exactly alike, then put them in his garden. One of the woman had a husband and children and begged the wizard to let her see them. He agreed. At night, he brought the woman to her house. In the morning he came and took her home. One day the husband decided to go rescue her, so he snuck into the wizard's garden. He looked and looked at the three identical rose bushes trying to figure out which could be his wife. Suddenly, he knew the answer and he took his wife home. How did he know which rose bush was his wife?

Answer next week!

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Last weeks answer:  The bunny can't jump. He's dead.

This Weeks Quote...

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

-Henry David Thoreau