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| POOR PEOPLE? One day, a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people can be. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from the trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?". "It was great, Dad". "Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father. The son answered, "I saw that we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that goes beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us and they have friends to protect them". With this, the boy's father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are". Too many times we forget what we have and concentrate on what we don't have. What is one person's worthless object is another's prize possession. It is all based on one's perspective. Author Unknown |
| "Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Matthew 6:30 ~~~~~ "But seek ye the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and "all" things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33 ~~~~~ "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us." 1 John 5:14 ~~~~~ "When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faitheth for thirst, I the Lord "WILL" hear them, I the God of Israel WILL NOT forsake them." Isaiah 41:17 ~~~~~ "They shall NOT be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied." Psalm 37:19 ~~~~~ "Casting ALL your care upon him; for he careth for YOU." 1 Peter 5:7 ~~~~~ |
| The ONLY reason you should ever look down on someone.......is when you are looking down on them to pick them UP! |
| "Sand Or Stone?" A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. In a specific point of the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one, who got slapped, was hurt, but without anything to say, he wrote in the sand: "TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE". They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who got slapped and hurt started drowning, and the other friend saved him. When he recovered from the fright, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE". The friend who saved and slapped his best friend, asked him, "Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone?" The other friend, smiling, replied: "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Learn to write in the sand. ~ Author Unknown |