THREE BIRDS IN A CAGE
Author Unknown 
"I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy
coming toward
me swinging this bird cage..
On the bottom of the cage were three little wild
birds,
shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked,
"What
do you have there, son?"
"Just some old birds," came the reply.
"What are you going to do with them?" I asked.
"Take 'em home and have fun with 'em," he answered.
"I'm gonna tease 'em and
pull out their feathers
to make 'em fight. I'm gonna have a real good time."
"But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later.
What will you do
then?"
"Oh, I got some cats,"
said the little boy. "They like birds.
I'll take 'em
to them."
The pastor was silent for a moment. "How much do you want for
those birds,
son?"
"Huh?? !!! ;Why, you don't want
them birds, mister.
They're just plain old field birds.
They don't sing. They ain't even
pretty!"
"How much?" the pastor asked again.
The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy
and said, "$10?"
The pastor reached in his pocket
and took out a ten dollar bill.
He placed
it in the boy's hand.
In a flash, the boy was gone. The pastor picked up
the cage and gently carried it to the end
of the alley where there was a tree and a
grassy spot.Setting the cage down, he opened
the door, and by softly tapping the
bars
persuaded the birds out, setting them free.
Well, that explained the empty
bird cage
on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story:
One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation.
Satan had just come from the
Garden of Eden,
and he was gloating and boasting. "Yes, sir,
I just caught a
world full
of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait
I knew they couldn't resist. Got'em all!"
"What are you going to do with them?" Jesus asked.
Satan replied, "Oh, I'm gonna have fun!
I'm gonna teach them how to marry
and
divorce each other, how to hate and abuse
each other, how to drink and
curse.
I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs
and kill each
other.
I'm really gonna have fun!"
"And what will you do when you are done with them?"
Jesus asked. "Oh, I'll kill 'em," Satan glared proudly.
"How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked.
"Oh, you don't want those people. They ain't
no good. Why, you'll take them
and
they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you,
curse you and kill you. You
don't want those people!!"
"How much? He asked again.
Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, "All your blood,
tears and your life."
Jesus said,
"DONE!" Then He paid the price.
The pastor picked up the cage and walked from the pulpit.
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