When Three Old Men Bring Wisdom To Your Doorstep
A woman living in downtown Ontario, Canada came out of her house
and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard.
She did not recognize them.
She said “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please
come in and have something to eat.”
“Is the man of the house home?” they asked.
“No”, she replied. “He’s out.”
“Then we cannot come in”, they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had
happened.
“Go tell them I am home and invite them in!”
The woman went out and invited the men in.
“We do not go into a house together,” they replied.
“Why is that?” she asked.
One of the old men explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said
pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one,
“He is Success, and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and
discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”
The woman went in and told her husband what was said.
Her husband was overjoyed. “How nice!!” he said. “Since that’s the
case, let’s invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with
wealth!”
His wife disagreed. “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?”
Their daughter was listening from the other corner of the house.
She jumped in with her own suggestion: “Would it not be better to
invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!”
“Let us heed our daughter’s advice,” said the husband to his wife.
“Go out and invite Love to be our guest.”
The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, “Which one of you is
Love? Please come in and be our guest.”
Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also
got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and
Success: “I only invited Love, why are you coming in?”
The old men replied together: “If you had invited Wealth or
Success, the other two of us would’ve stayed out, but since you
invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. Wherever there is
Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”
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kaushal | Apr 7, 2009 | Reply
Nice parable!
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Fuzz Ishaq | Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
@Kaushal : Thanks Kaushal! =)
SaiF | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
@Fuzz : I loved this one and received TONS of E-mails from people I’ve never heard from after sending this story!
It’s a WONDERFUL story!
SaiF | Apr 14, 2009 | Reply
This is a wonderful tale and wonderfully yet simply told. But like any good parable it is so easy to put in to practice. We just need to love and trust each other enough and to welcome strangers into our homes.
clovis mackintosh | May 8, 2009 | Reply
Its funny though because majority of people would pick either wealth or success.
I mean they know at least what to expect, which is usually money.
I mean when it comes to love, they will either brush it off or say they already have that.
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