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Dear god

There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses.

One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about.

The letter read:

Dear God,

I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension.

Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had $100 in it, which was all the money I had until my next pension payment.

Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with, have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?
 
Sincerely, Edna

The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other workers. Each one dug into his or her wallet and came up with a few dollars.

By the time he made the rounds, he had collected $96, which they put into an envelope and sent to the woman. 

 
The rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of Edna and the dinner she would be able to share with her friends.

Christmas came and went. 

 A few days later, another letter came from the same old lady to God. 

 All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened.



It read:
 
Dear God,
 
How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? 

 Because of your gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day and I told my friends of your wonderful gift.
 
By the way, there was $4 missing. 

I think it might have been those bastards at the post office.
 
Sincerely, Edna

 


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Rofl. Hadn't heard that one

Rofl. Hadn't heard that one before.

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Very funny!

Very funny!


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How I interpert the story

How I interpret the story.  The old lady reminds me of so many people who profess to be good Christians, Jews, etc. and the minute they believe that they have short changed..be it money, beat to a parking spot, someone cutting in on a line, etc. they revert back to their true selves... So much for religious teachings!!!


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profess...

 True fjp800,

 

...but are those people then truly examples of 'good' Christians/Jews?

 

There are hypocrites everywhere, not just on the 'other' side.


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Points!

I'm posting again just to get 4 more points!

 

No idea what the points are for, but just for the sake of mindless competition... Smiling