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The Gift of Life On the very first day, God created the cow. He said to the cow, Today I have created you! As a cow, you must go to the field with the farmer all day long. You will work all day under the sun! I will give you a life span of 50 years. The cow objected, What? This kind of a tough life you want me to live for 50 years? Let me have 20 years, and the 30 years Ill give back to you. So God agreed. On the second day, God created the dog. God said to the dog, What you are supposed to do is to sit all day by the door of your house. Any people that come in, you will have to bark at them! Ill give you a life span of 20 years. The dog objected, What? All day long to sit by the door? No way! Ill give you back my other 10 years of life! So God agreed. On the third day, God created the monkey. He said to the monkey, Monkeys have to entertain people. Youve got to make them laugh and do monkey tricks. Ill give you 20 years life span. The monkey objected. What? Make them laugh? Do monkey faces and tricks? Ten years will do, and the other 10 years Ill give you back. So God agreed. On the fourth day, God created man and said to him, Your job is to sleep, eat, and play. You will enjoy very much in your life. All you need to do is to enjoy and do nothing. This kind of life, Ill give you a 20 year life span. The man objected. What? Such a good life! Eat, play, sleep, do nothing? Enjoy the best and you expect me to live only for 20 years? No way, man! Why dont we make a deal? Since the cow gave you back 30 years, and the dog gave you back 10 years and the monkey gave you back 10 years, I will take them from you! That makes my life span 70 years, right? So God agreed. | 
