Thursday, August 31, 2006
Thoughtful Love
Mahatma Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day - but as he did so one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train slowly moved ahead.
Then, to the astonishment of those who were with him, Gandhi calmly removed his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land as closely as possible to the other.
He smiled at a fellow passenger who was nonplussed as to why he had done that. Said Gandhi: Now the poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will have a pair he can use.
Then, to the astonishment of those who were with him, Gandhi calmly removed his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land as closely as possible to the other.
He smiled at a fellow passenger who was nonplussed as to why he had done that. Said Gandhi: Now the poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will have a pair he can use.
Encouragement
Keep away from folk who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
- Mark Twain
Love Cures
Dr. Karl Menninger said once that love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
More
Wanting to know God more, to go deeper, to experience all that He has for us - surely that is our desire, at least some of the time.
One night a group of nomads were surrounded by a great Light. They felt they were in the Presence of a celestial being, and their anticipation and wonder was great as they awaited an important heavenly message.
Finally a Voice spoke. "Gather as many pebbles as you can; put them in your saddlebags; travel a day's journey, and tomorrow night will find you glad - and it will find you sad."
The Visitor departed. The nomads shared their disappointment for they had expected the revelation of a great universal truth - something to enable them to create wealth, health and purpose for the world. Instead, they had been given a task that made no sense to them at all.
Nevertheless, the memory of the brilliance of their visitor caused each of them to pick up least a few pebbles to deposit in their saddlebags.
They travelled a day's journey and made camp at night. But when each reached into his saddle bag, he discovered that every pebble gathered had become a diamond!
They were glad they had diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more pebbles.
One night a group of nomads were surrounded by a great Light. They felt they were in the Presence of a celestial being, and their anticipation and wonder was great as they awaited an important heavenly message.
Finally a Voice spoke. "Gather as many pebbles as you can; put them in your saddlebags; travel a day's journey, and tomorrow night will find you glad - and it will find you sad."
The Visitor departed. The nomads shared their disappointment for they had expected the revelation of a great universal truth - something to enable them to create wealth, health and purpose for the world. Instead, they had been given a task that made no sense to them at all.
Nevertheless, the memory of the brilliance of their visitor caused each of them to pick up least a few pebbles to deposit in their saddlebags.
They travelled a day's journey and made camp at night. But when each reached into his saddle bag, he discovered that every pebble gathered had become a diamond!
They were glad they had diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more pebbles.
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