Bear Hug

BEARHUG

Once there was a hunter out hunting bears.
The hunter spotted a bear and carefully raised his rifle and took aim.
He was just about to pull the trigger when he heard a voice say: "Wait, Mr. Hunter"!
The voice came from the bear.
The bear continued, saying: "Let's sit down and talk things over."
The hunter lowered his rifle and sat down on a log with the bear.
The bear said to the hunter: "Let's try to be reasonable and reach a compromise."
The hunter took off his hat and scratched his head and said, “Okay.”
The bear asked the hunter just what was it that he wanted.
The hunter said: "A fur coat." The bear replied: "That sound reasonable."
The bear went on to say: "All I want is a full stomach."
That sounded fair enough too.
So the hunter and the bear discussed things a little more.
Then suddenly after a flurry of activity, the bear was alone.
The bear had his full-stomach, and the hunter was inside the fur coat.
Sometimes it is better to be a little cold and go without than to get wrapped up in unnecessary luxury items.

BAD HABIT

On the Western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a giant Sequoia lies rotting. It was a growing sapling when Christ walked the shores of Galilee. When Columbus discovered America, it was reaching maturity and it looked down from lofty heights during the American Civil War. It seemed destined to live many more centuries.

Then, a few years ago, a tiny beetle started to burrow into its bark and lay eggs that would produce other beetles. It seemed like an unequal battle at first, but the few beetles multiplied into hundreds, then into thousands, and finally into millions. First they attacked the bark, then they worked deeper into the trunk, and finally, they were eating the very heart and strength of that magnificent forest giant.

Then one day, after withstanding the elements for centuries, the rain came, the winds blew, the lightning flashed, and the giant tree fell. Not because of the elements, but because of the weakening effects of those tiny beetles.

Bad habits do the same thing to people. They slowly take a toll, until the day comes when the man or woman fall like that giant tree.

ABORTION

A professor at the UCLA Medical School asked his students this question - "Here is the family history: The father has Syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children. The first is blind. The second died. The third is deaf. The fourth has TB. The mother is pregnant. The parents are willing to have an abortion if you decide they should. What do you think?" Most of the students decided on an abortion. "Congratulations," said the professor, "you have just murdered Beethoven!"