One Wish

Perhaps you have heard the story about a man who found a lamp on a deserted beach. He rubbed the lamp on its side and out popped a genie. The genie told him that normally he had three wishes to grant, but two of them had already been used up. He had only one last wish to grant. The man thought, then asked for the New York Times Paper - stocks update edition, dated one year from today. The genie said, "Granted" and the genie disappeared and in place of the genie was a copy of the New York Times dated one year later. The man turned to the stock section and said to himself, "Now that I know what stocks will be a year from now, I can make my investment now and be rich in just one year." The man was feeling pretty good about his wish until he dropped the paper by accident. When he bent down to pick the paper up something had caught his attention that made him stare in disbelief. The paper had fallen open to the obituary section, and the man's name was on the top of the page. Life is ironic to say the least, but it does give new meaning to Proverbs 3:5 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."