A Jewish man was becoming increasingly nervous. His son was coming of age and his 13th year was drawing closer. The man was concerned that his young son was not well versed in the Jewish faith and wanted to better educate him on his roots before his bar Mitzvah. The father decided to send his young son to Israel to see their homeland and study his heritage.
The time came for the young boy to return home. The boy came in and fell at his father's feet thanking him over and over for sending him to Israel. "Oh father," he exclaimed excitedly. "I learned so much while I was there... but I have some bad news." pausing a second or so he concluded: "While I was there I converted to Christianity."
The father fell to his knees "Oh, no! What have I done?"
Worried he rushed to his closest friend's house. After explaining what happened to him, his friend replied: "Funny you should bring this to me! I also sent my son to Israel and he too converted to Christianity!"
The two friends in their distress decided they must immediately go to the Rabbi and ask for guidance. After listening intently the Rabbi replied: "Funny you should bring this to me. I too sent my son to Israel and he also converted to Christianity!"
All three men in unison fell to their knees and blurted out prayers to God begging for guidance. God quietly replied: """Funny you should bring this to me ... I, too, sent my son to Israel. . ."""
" For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome!"
Deuteronomy 10:17
Thought for reflection
You and I can change most of the personal things within and around us.
A powerful man can change an institution or society. People in union can make changes to a country or the whole world.
The rest, the Un-moved Mover does.
“God does, that you, I and our men cannot do”
Antony Pal
Antony Pal
--- --- ---
The Laughs to think with Sippican is a collection of thoughts, stories, reflections and more ... that help one to Laugh first . . .and then to think and become a better Human Being.
Feel free to write to Sippychan (hello@sippyan.org) for any kind of suggestions, or when you would like to own a Blog like this.
This Blog is a Franciscan project in collaboration with Google's Blogger.