Why wedding ring on the fourth finger?

Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?

There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese.

Your thumb represents your Parents
Your index finger represents your Siblings
Your middle finger represents yourself
Your ring finger represents your Life Partner
Your last (pinkie) finger represents your Children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together -- back to back. Then open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb tip to tip. As shown in the above picture:

Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing your parents) they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong and have to leave you sooner or later.

Please join your thumbs as before and separate your index fingers (representing your siblings) they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.

Now join the index fingers and separate your little fingers (representing your children) they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own someday.

Finally, join your little fingers and try to separate your ring fingers (representing your spouse). You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT, because husband and wife have to remain together all their lives -- through thick and thin!

Joke of the Day

A Religious Boyfriend

>A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night
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>and havedinner with her parents. Since this is such a
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>big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that
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>after dinner, she would like to go out and make love
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>for the first time.
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>Well, the boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex
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>before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get
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>some condoms.
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>He tells the pharmacist it's his first time and the
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>pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells
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>the boy everything there is to know about condoms and
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>sex.
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>At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many
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>condoms he'd like to buy, a 3-pack, 10-pack, or family
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>pack. The boy insists on the family pack because he
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>thinks he will be rather busy, it being his first time
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>and all.
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>That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parents
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>house and meets his girlfriend at the door.
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> "Oh, I'm so excited for you to meet my parents, come
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>on in!" The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner
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>table where the girl's parents are seated.
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>The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head.
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>A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer,
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>with his head down. 10 minutes pass, and still no
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>movement from the boy.
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>Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the
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>girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boyfriend,
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>"I had no idea you were this religious." The boy
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>turns, and whispers back, "I had
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>no idea your father was a pharmacist."
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Joke of the Week

Pre-Nuptial Agreements

A secretary for a foreign embassy was entertaining a wealthy foreign ambassador during lunch at a very expensive restaurant in New York.
The ambassador was so enthralled by the beauty and presence of this secretary that he asked her to marry him. The secretary was startled, but remembered that her boss told her never to insult foreign dignitaries, so she decided to let him down easy.

"I'll only marry you under three conditions."

"Anything, anything," said the ambassador.

"First, you must buy me a 14-karat gold wedding band with a 72 carat diamond, along with a 28-inch studded matching necklace for our engagement."

Without hesitation, the ambassador picked up his cellular phone, called his personal accountant, told him the instructions, and said, "Yes, yes, I buy, I buy!"

The secretary thought that her first request was too easy, so she thought of a more difficult situation.

"Second, I want you to build me a 58-acre mansion in the richest part of the Hamptons along with a 40-acre summer home in the sweetest vineyards of France."

The ambassador picked up his phone, called his personal broker in New York, then called another broker in France, and after his quick conversation, he said, "Yes, yes, I build, I build!"

The secretary was very startled, and knew she must think of a final request that would be impossible to live up to.

"Finally," she said. "I'll only marry you if you have a 10-inch penis."

A sad face befell the ambassador, and he cupped his face in his hands. After weeping in his native language for a few minutes, the ambassador slowly lifted his head and said, "Ok, ok, I cut, I cut!"

Fishing at Wildwood, New Jersey

Daily food for our mind and heart

September 1
A person should have enough education so he doesn't have to look up to anyone. He should also have enough to be wise enough not to look down.

September 2
That we are alive today is proof positive that God has something for us to do today. (Lindsay)

September 3
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

September 4
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (Jesus)

September 5
Be very sensitive to your benefactors, no matter how small their gifts in your behalf. Don't let any knidness go unappreciated.

September 6
When a person is at his wits' end, it is not a cowardly thing to pray. It is the only way to get into touch with reality. (Oswald Chambers)

September 7
The best thing to do behind one's back is pat it.

September 8
A God who studies each commonplace soul. Out of commonplace things makes His beauty whole. (Susan Coolidge)

September 9
The world seldom notices who the teachers are, but civilization depends on what they do and what they say.

September 10
Well done is better than well said. (Ben Franklin)

September 11
Let the words I speak today be soft and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them!

September 12
Amazing isn't it, how some people see the basket half empty and others see it half full. Some see life hopeless, others hopeful. Even when things are less than perfect, if you can think of the good, the beautiful, the hopeful, you'll be more than sustained...you'll conquer.

September 13
A person can be all that goodness calls him to be and still never see the author of life. (Max Lucado).

September 14
Among the few things more expensive than an education these days is the lack of it.

September 15
A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune.

September 16
What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

September 17
Education is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't go far enough. It merely teaches a man how to speak, not when or how long.

September 18
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

September 19
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible. "In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." (George Wahington Carver)

September 20
A good leader inspires men to have confidence in him; a great leader inspires them to have confidence in themselves.

September 21
As the blossom cannot tell what becomes of its fragrance, so no one can tell what becomes of his influence.

September 22
When someone does you wrong, don't do what comes naturally; do what comes supernaturally. Love hi.

September 23
You are a child. Accept the fact. Be humble and teachable. Lean upon the wisdom of others till you have gained your own. (Eliza Farnham)

September 24
It is easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend a heart those words have broken.

September 25
...My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness....(2 Corinthians 12:9 RSV)

September 26
The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay.

September 27
The butterfly counts not months but moments and yet has time enough.

September 28
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

September 29
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds them all different. No one has a double friendship.

September 30
It isn't the load that weighs us down - it's the way we carry it.

Joke of the Week

Fishing
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Two guys are talking about fishing.

One says to the other "I am NEVER going to take my kids fishing with
me, ever again!"

"That bad, huh?"

"They did everything wrong! EVERYTHING! They talked too much, they
made the boat rock constantly, they tried to stand up in the boat,
they baited the hook wrong, used the wrong lures, and worst of all,
they caught more fish than me!"