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TO YOUR FRIEND : LOYALTY
TO YOUR ENEMY : FORGIVENESS
TO YOUR BOSS : SERVICE
TO A CHILD : A GOOD EXAMPLE
TO YOUR PARENTS : GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION
TO YOUR LIFE PARTNER : LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS
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Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said," Someday I hope to be treasure chest. I could be filed with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty. " Then the second tree said, "Someday I will be a mighty ship.? I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull." Finally the third tree said, "I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me. " After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, "this looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter" ..and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest. at the second tree a woodsmen said," This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard." The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship. When the woodsmen cam upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true. One of the woodsmen said, "I don't need anything special from my tree so I'll Take this one," and he cut it down." When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for. The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying kings had come to an end. The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in the dark. The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams. Then one day, a man and woman came to the barn. she gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time. Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep. while they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said" Peace" and storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the King of Kings in its boat. Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. when they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it. The moral of this story is that god has a plan for you. If you place your trust in him, He will give you great gifts. Each of the trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. We don't always know what God's plan are for us. We just know that his ways are not our ways, but his ways are always best.
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One afternoon, a couple was travelling on the road when all of a sudden at a far distance they saw a woman in the middle of the road asking them to stop. The wife told her husband to keep on driving because it might be too dangerous, but the husband decided to pass by slowly so he wouldn't stay with the doubt ob his mind of what might have happened and the chances of anyone being hurt. As they got closer, they noticed a woman with cuts and bruises on her face as well as on her arms. they then decide to stop and see if they could be of any help. The cut and bruised woman was begging for help telling them that she had been in a car accident and that her husband and son, a new born baby, were still inside the car which was in a deep ditch. She told them that the husband was already dead but that her baby seemed to still be alive. The husband that was travelling decided to get down and try to rescue the baby and he asked the hurt woman to stay with his wife inside their car. when he got down he noticed two people in the front seats of the car but he didn't pay any importance to it and took out the baby quickly and got up to take the baby to its mother. when he got up, he didn't see the mother anywhere so he asked his wife where she had gone. she told him that the woman followed him back to the crashed car. when the man decided to go look for the woman, he noticed that clearly the two people in the front seats were dead; a woman and a man with both their seatbelts on. when he looked closer, he noticed that it was exactly the same woman that was begging them for help in the beginning. Do you think it was a miracle of God? The baby now lives with family members and he will live to tell the story.
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God, I thank you for this day. I know I have not accomplished as yet all you expect of me, and if that is your reason for bathing me in the fresh dew of another dawn, I am most grateful.
I am prepared, at least, to make you proud of me.
I will forget yesterday, with all its trials and tribulations, aggravations and setbacks, anger and frustrations. The past is already dream from which I can neither retrieve a single word nor erase any foolish deeds.
I will resolve, however, that if I have injured anyone yesterday through my thoughtlessness, I will not let this day's sun set before I amends, and nothing I do today will be a greater importance.
I will not fret the future. My success and happiness does not defend on straining to see what lurks dimly on the horizon but to do, this day what lies clearly at hand.
I will treasure this day, for it is all I have. I know that its rushing hours cannot be accumulated or stored, like precious grains, for future use.
I will live as all good actors do when they are onstage only in the moments. I cannot perform at my best today by regretting my previous acts mistakes or worrying about he scene to come.
I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. I will remember that the busier I am, the less harm I apt to suffer, the tastier will be my food, the sweeter my sleep, and the better satisfied I will be with my place in the world.
I will free myself today from slavery to the clock and calendar. although I will plan this day in order to conserve my steps and energy, I will begin to measure my life in deeds, not years, in thought, not seasons, in feelings, not figures on a dial.
I will remain aware of how little it takes to make this happy days. Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
I will run from no danger I might encounter today, because I am certain that nothing will happen to me that I am not equipped to handle with your help. Just as any gem is polished by friction, I am certain to become more valuable through this day's adversities, and if you close one door, you always open another for me.
I will live this day as if it were Christmas, I will be a giver of gifts and deliver to my enemies the gift of forgiveness, my opponents, tolerance, my friends, a smile, my children. a good example, and every gift will be wrapped with unconditional love.
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
I will treat today as a priceless violin. One may draw harmony from it and another, discord, yet no one will blame the instrument. Life is the same, and if I play it correctly, it will give forth beauty, but if I play it ignorantly, it will produce ugliness.
I will condition myself to look on every problem I encounter today as no more than a pebble in my shoe. I remember my pain, so harsh I could hardly walk, and recall my surprise when I remove my shoe and found only a grain of sand.
I will work convinced that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. To do anything today that is truly worth doing. I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I will face the world with goals set for this day, but they will be attainable ones, not the vague, impossible variety declared by those who make a career of failure. I realize that you always try me with a little, first, to see what I would do with a lot.
I will never hide my talents. If I am silent, I am forgotten. If I do not advance, I will fall back. If I walk from any challenge today, my self-esteem will be forever scarred, and if I cease to grow, even a little, I will become smaller, I reject the stationary position because it is always the beginning of the end.
I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. I know that the world is looking glass and gives back to me the reflection of my own soul. Now I understand the secret of correcting the attitude of others and that is to correct my own.
i will turn away any temptation today that might cause me to break my word or lose my self-respect. I am positive that the only thing I possess more valuable than my life is my honor.
I will work this day will all my strength. content in the knowledge that life does not consist of wallowing in the past of peering anxiously at the future. It is appalling to contemplate the great number of painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. Whatever it offers, little or much, my life is now.
I pause whenever I am feeling sorry for myself today, and remember that this is the only day I have and must play it to the fullest. What my part may signify in the great whole, I may not recognized, but I am here to play it and now is the time.
I will count this day a separate life. I will remember that those who have fewest regrets are those who take each moment as it comes for all that is worth.
This is my day!
These are my seeds.
Thank you, God, for this precious garden of time.
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AUTHOR: ANDY ROONEY
I've learned... that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
I've learned... that when you're in love, it shows.
I've learned... that having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
I've learned... that being kind is more important than being right.
I've learned... that you should never say no to a gift from a child.
I've learned... that I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
I've learned... that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
I've learned... that sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
I've learned... that simple walks with my father around the block on summer night when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I've learned... that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
I've learned... that money doesn't buy class.
I've learned... that it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I've learned... that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I've learned... that the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
I've learned... that to ignored the facts does not change the facts.
I've learned... that when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
I've learned... that love, not time, heals all wounds.
I've learned... that the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
I've learned... that there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks.
I've learned... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
I've learned... that opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.
I've learned... that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
I've learned... that I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
I've learned... that one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
I've learned... that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I've learned... that I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.
I've learned... that when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
I've learned... that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
I've learned... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances, when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
I've learned... that the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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No matter what mistakes you may have made-, No matter how you've messed thing up-, You still can make a new beginning. The person who fully realizes this suffers less from the shock and pain of failure and sooner gets off to a new BEGINNING..............
HAPPINESS is not an absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them.
The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are on how happy others can be because of you...........
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