Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tl00040)

> That is a lovely analogy and illustration of brotherhood
> 
> Many thanks for sharing it.
> Dallas
> 
> Subject:	Inspirational

>>   Heaven and Hell - The Real Difference

        A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The
  Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you hell." They
   entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge 
pot
   of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. 
Each
  held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a
   handle so much longer than their own arm that it could 
not
   be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The 
suffering
   was terrible.
        "Come, now I will show you heaven," the Lord said 
after
   a while. They entered another room, identical to the 
first -
   the pot of stew, the group of people, the same 
long-handled
   spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.
        "I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they 
happy
   here when they were miserable in the other room and
   everything was the same?"
        The Lord smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "here
>   they have learned to feed each other."

>                      By Ann Landers
>           from A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the 
Soul>>

I have already heard this story. Guess where? The T.S. in 
Adyar. So again I say: it does do some things well. And 
again, for the pessimists: It does indeed also do things 
less expertly.

Katinka

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