WHAT
SHE
WANTS
The idea for
this parable is
credited to Elan Mazer.
Jerry truly loved his wife. He
desired nothing more than for her to be happy. Periodically, he would
buy flowers for her, because of the great happiness she felt when
receiving flowers.
One day,
Jerry's wife was preparing dinner, and she
accidentally cut her thumb with a knife. She looked for bandaids, but
they had none left. She called her husband and asked him to buy some
bandaids and come home as quickly as possible. Jerry's response was
very predictable: "Of course, my
love. I'll be home in ten minutes." So his wife ran water over her
thumb and waited for her husband.
He
immediately got into the car and drove to the
pharmacy. But then he noticed that, right next to the pharmacy, there
was a flower store. He immediately decided that his wife would really
prefer flowers to bandaids, so he went into the flower store. When he
came out with a bouquet of roses, he had no time left to get the
bandaids.
Do you imagine his
wife was pleased when Jerry
came home with the flowers?
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