There is Always Something to Be Thankful for
A famous writer was in his study room. He picked up his pen and started writing:
“Last year, I had surgery and my gallbladder was removed. I had to stay stuck to the bed due to this surgery for a long time.
My Friend Barry I first met Barry in the mid-80’s while working as the secretary for the President of a limousine company in the town where I grew up, a… My Friend Barry I first met Barry in the mid-80’s while working as the secretary for the President of a limousine company in the town where I grew up, a suburb of Dallas. My boss, Charles was the newly appointed President of the National Limousine Association based in Washington, DC. Barry, a man nearly twice my age and also serving on the board lived near the Associations’ headquarters and would routinely call to discuss issues with my boss. When Barry would call he would exuberantly say “Good morning!!!” and you could tell from his voice and tone that it really was! Being a young mother of two small daughters, often it was well up into the day before my morning felt “good” to me. Usually fatigued from the daily routine of getting dinner the night before, baths, making lunches, helping with homework, and then getting up early to rush the girls off to school and drive the 20+ miles to work in traffic, I would be doing well to muster up a smile, much less any enthusiasm, yet Barry’s calls would always rejuvenate me. As time went on, I found
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My 10 Resolutions for the New Year
This coming year, I have decided that with God’s help, I shall:
1) Give up complaining . . . focus on gratitude.
2) Give up harsh judgments . . . think kind thoughts.
Witnessing A Miracle It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped… Witnessing A Miracle It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields. Lately, this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn’t see some rain soon we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes. I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn’t walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously
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The Danger of Comparison A guy met one of his schoolmates several years after school and he could not believe his eyes; his friend was driving one of the latest… The Danger of Comparison A guy met one of his schoolmates several years after school and he could not believe his eyes; his friend was driving one of the latest sleek Mercedes Benz cars. He went home feeling awful and very disappointed in himself. He thought he was a failure. What he didn’t know was that his friend was a driver and had been sent on an errand with his boss’s car! Rosemary nagged her husband always for not being romantic. She accused him of not getting down to open the car door for her as her friend Jane’s husband did when he dropped her off at work. What Rosemary didn’t know was that Jane’s husband’s car had a faulty door that could only be opened from the outside! Sampson’s wife went to visit one of her longtime friends and was very troubled for seeing the three lovely kids of her friend playing around. Her problem was that she had only one child and have been struggling to conceive for the past five years. What she didn’t know was that only one of those kids was the biological child of
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Anger Management As a carpenter went home after closing from his workshop, a black, poisonous cobra entered his workshop. The cobra was hungry and hoped to find its supper lurking… Anger Management As a carpenter went home after closing from his workshop, a black, poisonous cobra entered his workshop. The cobra was hungry and hoped to find its supper lurking somewhere within. It slithered from one end to another and accidentally bumped into a double-edged metal axe and got slightly injured. In anger and seeking revenge, the snake bit the axe with full force. What could a bite do to a metallic axe? Instead, the cobra’s mouth started bleeding. Out of fury and arrogance, the cobra made to strangle and kill the object that was causing it such pain by wrapping itself very tightly around the blades. The next day when the carpenter opened his workshop, he found a seriously cut, dead cobra wrapped around the axe blades. The cobra died not because of someone else’s fault but faced these consequences merely because of its own anger. Sometimes when angry, we try to cause harm to others, but as time passes by, we realise that we have only caused more harm to ourselves instead. For a happy life, it is best we learn to ignore and overlook some things, people,
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