IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS

Three sons left home, went out on their own and
prospered.
Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they
were able to give their elderly mother.

The first said, "I built a big house for our mother."
The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a
driver."  The  third smiled and said, "I've got you
both beat.  You remember how mom enjoyed reading the
Bible?  And you know she can't see very well.  So I
sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire
Bible.  It took elders in the church 12 years to teach
him.  He's one of a kind.  Mama just has to name the
chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it."

Soon thereafter, mom sent out her letters of thanks:

"Milton," she wrote one son, "The house you built is
so huge.
I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole
house."

"Gerald," she wrote to another, "I am too old to
travel.  I stay most of the time at home, so I rarely
use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"

"Dearest Donald," she wrote to her third son, "You
have the good sense to know what your mother likes.
The chicken was delicious."

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