Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered.
Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were
able to give their elderly mother.
The first said, “I built a big house for our mother.”
The second said, “I sent her a Mercedes with a driver.” The
third smiled and said, “I’ve got you both beat. You remember
how Mom enjoyed reading the Bible? And you know she can’t see
very well. I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the
entire Bible. It took the elders in the church 12 years to teach
him. He’s one of a kind. Mama just has to name the chapter and
verse, and the parrot recites it.”
Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks: “Milton,”
she wrote one son, “the house you built is so huge. I live in
only one room, but I have to clean the whole house.”
“Gerald,” she wrote to another, “I am too old to travel. I stay
most of the time at home, so I rarely use the Mercedes. And the
driver is so rude!” “Dearest Donald,” she wrote to her third
son, “you have the good sense to know what your mother likes.
The chicken was delicious.”
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart.” *