Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God

went missing for seven days. Eventually, Michael the archangel
found
him. He inquired of God, “Where were you?”. God sighed a deep
sigh of
satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds;
look my
child, look what I’ve just finished making. Archangel
Michael looked
puzzled and said what is it? God replied, “its another
planet, but this
time, I’ ve decided to put LIFE on it. I’ve named
it earth and
there’s going to be a balance between evertyhing on
it.

For example, there’s North America and South America. North
America is
going to be rich and South America is going to be poor,
and the narrow
bit joining them – that’s going to be a hot spot.
Now look over here.
I’ve put a continent of white people in the
North and another one of
black people in the South”.

And then
the archangel said, “and what’s that long white line
there?”
And God said “ahhh that’s the land of the long white cloud –

Aotearoa – (New Zealand) that’s a very special place. That’s going to be

the most glorious spot on earth; Beautiful mountains, lakes,
rivers,
streams and an exquisite coastline. These people here are going
to be
modest, intelligent and humorous and they’re going to be fond
of travelling
the world. They’ll be extremely sociable, hard
working and high
achieveing. And I’m going to give them this
superhuman, undefeatable rugby
team which will be blessed with the most
talented, and charasmatic
specimens on the planet, and they will be
admired and feared by all who come
across them”. Michael the archangel
gasped in wonder and admiration
but then seeming startled
proclaimed, “hold on a second, what about the
BALANCE, you said ther was
going to be a balance…..”

God replied wisely, “wait until you see
the neighbours I’m going to
give them”.