If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
8/15–Can You Spare A Minute?
“What are you achieving?
I read recently about a speech by columnist William Raspberry who told the story of a Chicago teacher with a class full of incorrigible sixth-graders.
She was so sure of their mental deficiency that she sneaked a peek in the principal’s files at their IQ scores.
And she was shocked to see stellar scores in the 120 and 130 range. The worst kid in the class had a 145.
She changed her whole approach. She gave the class challenging assignments, piled on the homework and cracked down on misbehavior.
At the end of the year, when the principal congratulated her on the students’ success, she confessed to looking at the files. And the principal informed her that she hadn’t seen IQ scores. She saw locker numbers.
The power of expectations.
Let’s pay each other the high compliment of great expectations.
With the power of the Holy Spirit and a word of encouragement–the potential in us is unlimited.
An aged lady left Buffalo by boat for Cleveland to visit a daughter living there.
Soon a dreadful storm arose and many of the passengers, fearing death, gathered for prayer.
Only the aged lady seemed unconcerned about the tempest as she sat with her hands folded and prayed.
After the storm had subsided, some of the passengers were eager to know the secret of her calmness. They gathered around her and asked her the reason.
Well, my dear friends,” she replied, “it is like this. I have two daughters. One died and went home to heaven. The other lives in Cleveland.
When the storm arose, I wondered which of them I might visit first, the one in Cleveland or3 the one in heaven, and I just left it to the Lord; for I would be glad to see either.”
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But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Accept what is, Let go of what was, and have faith for what will be!
Story:
The Little Boy And The World
A man was babysitting his little boy and he needed to do something so he got a newspaper with the picture of the world on it and tore the newspaper into little pieces and told the little boy to put the world back together. In just a little bit the little boy told his father he was through.
The man couldn’t believe it. He asked him how did you do it so quickly? The little boy said on the other side of the world was a picture of a man.. I put the man together and the world came together too!!
When my Grandson was a little boy he would often ask his Mother “Mama, did you know”, and then finish his sentence with his answer. That particular day his mother, my daughter, seemed to be worried and he asked her “Mama did you know”?
He told her that God had the whole world in His hand! That simple phrase from a child lifted her heart and mind to the level it needed to be at.
You can learn a lot from a child if you will just pay attention!
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And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
They say if you find something you’re willing to do for free then you’ve found your calling.
I definitely feel as if I’ve found mine.
Let’s get to work!
Story:
A kindergarten teacher had decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates. So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes, some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.
The teacher then told the children to carry the potatoes in the plastic bag with them wherever they go for 1 week. Days after days passed, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?” The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: “This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime?”
Moral: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry burden for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take. Negativity about someone will keep peace of your mind away from you. Remember the good things about him/her, and let go of the hatred.
Submitted By: R, India.
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After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Humor:
The boys who house watched their Uncles house and turned over the urn
If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
8/13– Can You Spare A Minute?
There was once a group of 100 people attending a seminar on personal development.
In the middle of their talk, the speaker stops and decides to run an impromptu group activity. He hands out a balloon to each attendee and tells them to write their name on it.
The balloons are then collected and placed in an adjacent room.
The speaker then instructs the 100 attendees to enter that room and, within 5 short minutes, find the balloon with their name on it.
Pandemonium breaks loose as they charge in, pushing and colliding with each other as they desperately sea
rch for their name.
The 5 minutes pass and nobody succeeds.
The speaker then tells each person to pick up any random balloon and give it the person whose name is written on it. Within a few minutes everyone has their balloon back.
He then said, “What just happened with those balloons is exactly what happens in our search for happiness. We frantically look for it all around us, not knowing where it is.”
Yet our happiness lies in the happiness of others. By giving them their happiness, you get yours.”
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The richest place in the world is the cemetery. It is richer than Fort Knox! There are apologies never made, Love never expressed, songs never sung, and sermons never preached. Don’t die with your song still within you!!!
I’m not afraid of dying… only to die before I’ve ever lived!
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A man in Iowa discovered that he had terminal cancer. For weeks he moped around the house avoiding loved ones, inwardly cursing God and wondering why this tragedy had happened to him.
Then one day he made a decision: “I am not dead yet, and I am going to live each day to its fullest the rest of my life.”
Sometime later, when he was interviewed, he said he had experienced a more abundant life in the weeks after that decision than during his prior 42 years-colors seemed more vivid, the laughter of his children more bright and precious.
One suggestion he gave to help others with terminal illness was, “Consider each day as a gift from God; enjoy it fully.”
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