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The Language of Love

And then the programmers came to Jesus and asked:  "Master, which is the
greatest language of them all?" And Jesus responded saying: "The
greatest
language is the Language of Love." 

And the programmers scoffed and bickered among themselves because they
had never heard of this language. They had used Cobol and Fortran and
even
PowerBuilder and did not see how a language they had never used could be
better than all the languages they had studied all their lives. 

So they confronted Jesus in an effort to trick Him and asked: "In this
new
Language called Love, what are the most powerful  commands available to
you." And Jesus answered saying: "The language has but two commands
altogether: //Love God and //Love Man"

And the programmers were further incensed and proclaimed to each other:
"Perhaps he has developed a new RISC system with an instruction set of
two? But how can these two instructions, that we have never used before,
be so much better that all the instructions that we have spent our lives
learning and which we use everyday?"

And so they confronted Jesus again, and said:  "How is it that your Two
Instruction Language can be so powerful? Our languages have many
instructions, with many variables associated with each instruction. The
more instructions available, the more combinations of instructions you
can create and the more you can accomplish. What can you accomplish with
only these two commands?" 

Then Jesus asked the programmers: "If a man truly loves God with all his
heart and soul and mind, and truly loves his brother as much as he loves
himself, is there anything that such a man cannot accomplish?" And the
programmers were perplexed and confused because they had never thought
of it that way before. 

As the programmers continued to debate and discuss these issues, Jesus
asked: "Are there those among you who would like to learn this new
Language called Love."

And one programmer spoke right up saying: "What is the training schedule
for this Language? Surely with only two commands, we can learn this
language in a matter of weeks, or with off-site training, only a few
days!" 

But Jesus responded: "I can place the basic principles of this language
into
your life in the blink of an eye, but to master the language will take
you a
lifetime."

And a great uproar was heard among the programmers because these were
bright programmers and could master any set of commands in a short
amount of time. The roar turned to laughter as they joked about how
foolish anyone would be to start learning a language that took so long
to
master. Then they slapped each other on the back and strolled back to
their
cubicles knowing that this language must not be for real, or if it was
for
real, it was not for them. 
(Very Loosely based on Matthew 22:34-46)

Contributed by Ellis Bush (All Rights Reserved)
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:-}) Thomas W Lasater

People will do tomorrow
what they did today 
because that is
what they did yesterday