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Was There Manure in Jesus' Manger?
By Cliff Kuhn, M.D.
The Laugh Doctor
"It all starts with a SMILE"
Here’s one of my favorite parables:
A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other was
their looks. If one felt it was too hot, the other thought it
was too cold. If one said the TV was too loud, the other claimed
the volume needed to be turned up. Opposite in every way, one
was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist.
Just to see what would happen, on the twins' birthday their
father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and
game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.
I’ll finish this story in a moment…
The holidays are a mixed bag for most of us. While marketers of
all kinds remind us that this season is about gifts, love, and
togetherness, we can also find daily reminders of things we
miss. Perhaps a loved one is no longer with us. Perhaps we
mourn a painful childhood. Maybe we feel bad for past
opportunities we didn’t take advantage of.
Maybe, like the boy in the story, we find our life full of
manure (when we were expecting much better)!
Yep. The holidays can be a very tempting time to look at what
we haven’t got and at what we wish we had. That’s human nature
and very normal.
But please be assured that life will hand you nothing you’re not
equipped to handle. If you’re willing to take charge of your
attitude, by re-embracing my Smile Strategies, you already have
all the inner resources you need to rise above the siren calls
of self-pity that trap all of us from time to time.
I’m not implying that you should never feel sad. Nor am I
saying that your attitude, if turbo-charged with humor, will
suddenly manifest a Norman Rockwell painting! You already know
that humor is not a magic wand and was never meant to be.
What I am reminding you of, though, is that you are fully
capable of being in this moment, finding the joy and love in
front of you on this day, and being grateful for the gifts
present in your life right now. Yes – that’s the unbeatable
power of my Smile Strategies and your humor nature. And, trust
me, when you have those things going for you…everything else is
gravy!
Now to finish my favorite parable: That night the father passed
by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts
crying bitterly.
"Why are you crying?" the father asked.
"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these
instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll
constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get
broken." answered the pessimist twin.
Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing
for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he
asked.
To which his optimist twin replied, "There's got to be a pony in
here somewhere!"
Now there’s a fellow using his humor nature! Happy Holidays to
every Humor Being!
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Some Humor to Help You Smile
“They have a section called, 'New Baby.' I don't think you need
the word 'new.' They'd have to clear up confusion. 'Do you have
an Old Baby section? 'Cause my friend's had a baby, and I let
time get away from me, and he's 12.' “
Brian Regan
“I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only
missed one day so far.”
Kevin Nealon
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Cliff Kuhn, M.D.
The Laugh Doctor
7406 Wesboro Road
Louisville, KY 40242
"It all starts with a SMILE"
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