A Gift To Mom

Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city.




The first said, "I had a big house built for Mama."








The second said, "I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house."




The third said "I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her."




The fourth said, "You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can't read anymore because she can't see very well. I met this preacher who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty preachers 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the church, but it was worth it. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."




The other brothers were impressed. After the holidays Mom sent out her thank you notes. "She wrote: "Milton, the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway."




"Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home, I have my groceries delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks."




"Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all my friends are dead, I've lost my hearing and I'm nearly blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same."




"Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to give little thought to your gift. The chicken was delicious. Thank you."

Love & Marriage

A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"




The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back.



But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."







The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw one big wheat, but he wonders....may be there is a bigger one later.




Then he saw another bigger one... But may be there is an even bigger one waiting for him.




Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he start to realize that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he know he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted.




So, he ended up went back to the teacher with empty hand.




The teacher told him, "...this is love... You keep looking for a better one, but when later you realise, you have already miss the person...."




"What is marriage then?" the student asked.




The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."







The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reach the middle of the field, he has picked one medium corn that he feel satisfy, and come back to the teacher.




The teacher told him, "this time you bring back a corn.... You look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and believe this is the best one you get.... This is marriage."*




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The Cow & The Pig

There was once a man who was very rich and very miserly at the same time. The villagers disliked him intensely. One day he said to them, "Either you're jealous of me or you don't understand my love of money-God alone knows. But you dislike me; that much I know. When I die, I won't take anything with me. I will leave it all for others. I will make a will, and I will give everything to charity. Then everyone will be happy."




Even then people mocked and laughed at him. The rich man said to them, "What is the matter with you? Can't you wait a few years to see my money go to charity?"




The villagers didn't believe him. He said, "Do you think I'm immortal? I'll die like everyone else, and then my money will go to charities." He couldn't understand why they didn't believe him.





One day he went for a walk. All of a sudden it started raining heavily, so he took shelter under a tree. Under this tree he saw a pig and a cow. The pig and the cow entered into conversation, and the man overheard what they were saying.





The pig said to the cow, "How is it that everybody appreciates you and nobody appreciates me? When I die, I provide people with bacon, ham and sausage. People can also use my bristles. I give three or four things, whereas you give only one thing: milk. Why do people appreciate you all the time and not me?"





The cow said to the pig, "Look, I give them milk while I'm alive. They see that I am generous with what I have. But you don't give them anything while you're alive. Only after you're dead do you give ham, bacon and so forth. People don't believe in the future; they believe in the present. If you give while you are alive, people will appreciate you. It is quite simple."







From that moment on, the rich man gave all he had to the poor.




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Sand and Stone

This story tells of two friends walking through the desert. During some 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 saying anything, wrote in the sand:







They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath.




The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:




The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now, you write on a stone. Why?"




The other friend replied, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. When someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone, where no wind can ever erase it."




Learn to write your hurts in sand, and to carve your benefits in stone.

Whom to Blame?

A Boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage.




They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes.




When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.


He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot The matter.


The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its colour and drank it all.




It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She Was terrified how to face her husband.


When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child ,




He looked at his wife and uttered just five words.




QUESTIONS:




1. What were the five words?




2. What is the implication of this story?









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The husband just said "I am with you Darling"





The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behaviour.




The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life.




There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.


No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.




If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.




MORAL OF THE STORY


Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this attitude we missed out some warmth in human relationship.

Good Corn...

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn.




Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honour and prizes.




One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it.




The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.




"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.




"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field.




If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.




If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn."




The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves.




So it is in other dimensions! Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace,




Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.




And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.




If we are to grow good quality corn, we must help our neighbors grow good quality corn too....