Two donkeys were walking
down the road in Jerusalem
one day,One of the donkeys
said"Nawa oo.. Yesterday i was carrying Jesus on
my
back, people were hailing me
and screaming. People even kept their clothes
for me to
walk on.. But today, no one
even recognizes me" The
second donkey smiled and
said"Hmmmmm.. Don't you
know that you're nothing without Jesus?
Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter so he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the merchant’s debt if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble from the bag.If she picked the black pebble, she would become the moneylender’s wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant’s garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up ...
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