Found in another echo...  :-)


   Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort
   from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend
   to His kids.

   After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve.
   The first thing He said to them was:
   "Don't."

   "Don't what?" Adam asked.

   "Don't eat the Forbidden Fruit," God replied.

   "Forbidden Fruit?  We got Forbidden Fruit?  Hey, Eve, we got
   Forbidden Fruit!"

   "No way!"

   "WAY!"

   "Don't eat that fruit!" said God.

   "Why?"

   "Because I am your Father and I said so!" said God, wondering
   why He hadn't stopped after making the elephants.

   A few minutes later God saw the kids having an apple break and
   was angry.

   "Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?" He asked.

   "Uh huh," Adam replied.

   "Then why did you?"

   "I dunno," Eve answered.

   "She started it!" Adam said.

   "Did not!"

   "Did so!"

   "DID NOT!"

   Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that
   Adam and Eve should have children of their own.  Thus the
   pattern was set and it has never changed.

   But there is reassurance in this story.  When you have
   persistently and lovingly tried to give them wisdom and they
   haven't taken it, don't be too hard on yourself.  If God had
   trouble handling children, what made you think it would be a
   piece of cake for you?




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+