Take Me As Is
On her 50th wedding anniversary, a woman revealed the secret of
her
long and happy marriage. She said, "On my wedding day, I decided to make a
list
of ten of my husband's faults which, for the sake of the marriage, I would
overlook."
One of her guests asked her what some of the faults she chose
to
overlook were. "To tell you the truth," she replied, "I never did get around
to
making that list. But whenever my husband did something that made me hopping
mad, I would say to myself, 'Lucky for him that's one of the ten!'"
It's nice to decide what to overlook. In relationships, I get
plenty of practice overlooking the foibles of other people. And I suspect
they
get plenty of practice with me, too.
As they hung wallpaper together, one husband became frustrated
with
his wife. She seemed, to him, to be indifferent about the quality of her
work.
He felt she was doing a poor job. He finally put it into words this way:
"The
problem is that I'm a perfectionist and you're not."
"Exactly!" she replied. "That's why you married me and I
married
you!"
Miss Perfect certainly did one thing well. She knew how to
overlook
annoying observations from her perfectionist husband.
We human beings are nothing if not flawed and imperfect. But,
the
point is, people are not meant to without blemish. We're scraped and
scarred,
flawed on the inside and marred on outside. It's just the way we are.
(Sometimes
I think it's one of our more endearing qualities.) I never want to forget
that
"perfect" is only found in the dictionary.
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- "AS IS."
It
means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm
far,
far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share
of
faults. You will have to take me "AS IS" and I'll take you that way, too.
AS IS will be the best guarantee any of us can offer. But quite
frankly, most of the time we're getting a pretty good deal.
~Steve Goodier
Daily Smile:
“Please keep your dog beside you, sir,” a woman said crossly to the man sitting opposite to her on the bench at the park. “I can feel a flea in my shoe.”
“Midnight, come here,” replied the man. “This woman has fleas.”
In The News:
Obama: 'Planned Parenthood is Not Going Anywhere'
President Barack Obama praised the Planned Parenthood Federation of
America for saving lives and helping women and families in a 12-minute
speech on Friday -- enough time for 7.6 abortions to take place at
Planned Parenthood clinics, based on the abortion data in their latest
annual report, CNSNews.com reports.
In his speech, the president referenced two women that he said faced
health problems with fertility and caner, and claimed they had found
help at Planned Parenthood. "So every day in every state and at every
center Planned Parenthood operates, there are stories like those," Obama
said. "Lives you saved, women you've empowered, families that you have
strengthened. That's why no matter how great the challenge, no matter
how fierce the opposition, there's one thing the past few years have
shown. It's that Planned Parenthood isn't going anywhere. It's not going
anywhere today, it's not going anywhere tomorrow. As long as we've
got got a fight to make, make sure women have access to quality,
affordable health care and as long we’ve got to fight to protect a
woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health care I want
you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right
there with you fighting every step of the way. Thank you, Planned
Parenthood, and God bless you." Obama is the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood.
The news media are often criticized for spending too much time covering
sensational crime stories, but not so in the Philadelphia murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is accused of killing babies born alive in his abortion clinic. According to a new Fox News national poll,
only about a third of voters say they are familiar with the Gosnell
story (11 percent say "very" and 21 percent "somewhat" familiar). Most
voters -- 68 percent -- are unfamiliar with it. But why has the Gosnell
case received relatively little attention from the national press?
According to the poll, 41 percent of voters think the lack of coverage
is because of a pro-abortion-rights bias in the news media. Another 26
percent say the lack of coverage is because it is a local crime story,
while 17 percent blame it on the gruesomeness of the story's details.
Pro-life respondents (42 percent) are twice as likely as pro-choice
respondents (22 percent) to be familiar with the case; likewise, nearly
twice as many Republicans (43 percent) as Democrats (22 percent) say
they know about it. Last Thursday, 72 members of Congress signed three
separate letters to network news executives expressing their displeasure
with the lack of news coverage and demanding the networks report on the story. Court resumes Monday with closing arguments.
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