{"id":24987,"date":"2013-11-17T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:38:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T17:38:47","slug":"dont-fool-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/dont-fool-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t fool yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"brokenvase-xsmall1_7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The story is told of a young actor who was trying to<\/strong>
\nimpress an important movie director. The actor wanted to<\/strong>
\nsend an expensive gift, but he didn’t have the money, but<\/strong>
\nhe had an idea. If he could find a valuable vase which was<\/strong>
\nalready broken and get it at a very small cost, then he<\/strong>
\ncould mail it to the director. He would think it had gotten<\/strong>
\nbroken in the mail and would be impressed anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So this actor went to an exclusive store and found a vase<\/strong>
\nthat had been broken into many pieces. It was just going to<\/strong>
\nbe thrown out, so he was able to get it at a very small cost.<\/strong>
\nHe told them to wrap it up and send it and gave them the<\/strong>
\naddress. He waited to hear from the director, but heard<\/strong>
\nnothing for several days. Finally he sent a telegram: “Did<\/strong>
\nvase arrive?” Shortly he received this response: “Vase<\/strong>
\narrived. But why was each piece wrapped separately?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Abraham Lincoln said, “You may fool all the people some<\/strong>
\nof the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the<\/strong>
\ntime, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

But with God we can never fool him any of the time. “Be sure<\/strong>
\nyour sins will find you out”\u2014mine too!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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