THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE UNTIL YOU CAN!

A rich man looked through his window and saw a poor man picking something from his dustbin ... He said, “Thank GOD I'm not poor.”

The poor man looked around and saw a naked man misbehaving on the street ... He said, “Thank GOD I'm not mad.”

The mad man looked ahead and saw an ambulance carrying a patient ... He said, “Thank GOD am not sick.”

Then a sick person in hospital saw a trolley taking a dead body to the mortuary ... He said, “Thank GOD I'm not dead.”

Only a dead person cannot thank GOD

Why don't you thank GOD today for all your blessings and for the gift of life ... for another beautiful day!

What is LIFE?

To understand life better, you have to go to 3 locations :

1. Hospital

2. Prison

3. Cemetery

At the Hospital, you will understand that nothing is more beautiful than HEALTH

 In the Prison, you'll see that FREEDOM is the most precious thing.

 At the Cemetery, you will realize that life is worth nothing. The ground that we walk today will be our roof tomorrow.

We all come with NOTHING and we will go with NOTHING ... Let us, therefore, remain humble and be thankful NS grateful to GOD at all times for everything. 

ROOT OUT WHILE YOUNG!

A teacher took his students for a picnic to a nearby botanical garden. As they were walking through, the teacher thought of a game and asked the smallest of the students, “Can you pull this tiny plant?” The boy easily pulled it out.  Then the teacher showed a plant which had deeper root and asked the same question. But however much the boy tried, he couldn’t. Then he summoned a bigger boy to pull that one out and he could do it with ease. The game continued with a deeper rooted plants and no one in the group could.  The teacher pulled that one and then showing the mother plant he said, “I could pull this one, but not even a strongest man can pull out this mother plant!” 

“So it is with bad habits,” said the teacher. “When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted.”

The teacher who was a believer in God’s power further said, “Though the strongest man cannot pull out this mother plant, an elephant can. So there is hope for even a person who has deep rooted sinful nature. Seek His/Her help if you cannot do it by yourself.”

Don’t wait for bad habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it, else they will get control of you. If you are in a stage where you cannot do it by yourself, seek God’s assistance!

 THREE TYPES OF PEOPLE AROUND

Once a teacher showed three toys to a student and asked the student to find out the differences - all the three toys seemed to be identical in their shape, size, and material. After keen observation, the student observed holes in the toys: the first toy had holes in the ears, the second had holes in the ear and mouth and the third had only one hole in one ear.

The teacher asked the student to put a needle through the hole. The student put the needle in the ear hole of the first toy. The needle came out from the other ear. In the second toy, when the needle was put in the ear the needle came out of the mouth. And in the third toy, when the needle was put in, the needle did not come out.

Then the teacher told, “The First toy represents those people around you who gives an impression that they are listening to you and cares for you. But they just pretend to do so. After listening, as the needle comes out from the other ear, the things you said to them are gone. So be careful while you are speaking with this type of people around you. Be aware that they do not care for you.”

“The Second toy represents those people who listen to you giving an impression that they care for you. But as in the toy, the needle comes out through the mouth. These people will use your words and use them against you by telling it to others. They are gossipers! They are more dangerous than the first.”   

“In the Third toy, the needle does not come out from it. These kinds of people will keep the trust you have in them. They are the ones who you can count on.”

Be careful not to be like the first two sets of people and also not to associate with these kinds.