tHE RACe

Once upon a time, a hare went to a pool to quench his thirst. As a matter of chance, he saw a slow moving tortoise over there and mocked at him. The tortoise felt pinched and challenged the hare for a race.

The hare accepted the challenge with a smile. The next morning they both met at the starting point and the race began. As expected, the hare went far ahead of the tortoise.

After covering more than half of the distance, if started feeling bored. As the tortoise was quite far behind, the hare thought of taking some rest. So if stopped and began to eat blades of grass. Having his had fill, he felt asleep. Nearby, if saw a shady bush and laid down under it.

As for the tortoise, he constantly moved along at puny pace and overtook the sleeping hare. He reached the destination point and won the race.

When the hare wolf up. It was fairly late. He feared that the tortoise might have passed him. So he ran at a break neck speed but reaching the destination point, has highly disappointed to find his rival already there as winner. This story therefore teaches up that, one who notes steadily, though slow, is never a looser, that's why we say, slow and steady wins the race.

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tHE UN EMPLOYED GRADUATe

An unemployed graduate woke
up one morning and checked his
pocket. All he had left was $10.
He decided to use it to buy food
and then wait for death as he
was too proud to go begging..
He was frustrated as he could
find no job, and nobody was
ready to help him.
He
bought
food
and
as
he
sat
down
to
eat,
an
old
man
and
two little children came along
and asked him to help them
with food as they had not eaten
for almost a week. He looked at
them. They were so lean that he
could see their bones coming
out. Their eyes had gone into
the socket. With the last bit of
compassion he had, he gave
them the food. The old man and
children prayed that God would
bless and prosper him and then
gave him a very old coin. The
young graduate said to them
'you need the prayer more than
I do'.
With no money, no job, no food,
the young graduate went under
the bridge to rest and wait for
death. As he was about to sleep,
he saw an old newspaper on the
ground. He picked it up, and
suddenly he saw an
advertisement for people with
old coins to come to a certain
address.
He decided to go there with the
old coin the old man gave him.
On getting to the place, he gave
the proprietor the coin. The
proprietor screamed, brought
out a big book and showed the
young graduate a photograph.
This same old coin was worth 3
million dollars. The young
graduate was overjoyed as the
proprietor gave him a bank
draft for 3 million dollars within
an hour. He collected the Bank
Draft and went in search of the
old man and little children.
By the time he got to where he
left them eating, they had gone.
He asked the owner of the
canteen if he knew them. He
said no but they left a note for
you. He quickly opened the note
thinking it would lead him to
find them.
This is what the note said: 'You
gave us your all and we have
rewarded you back with the
coin,' signed The heavenly hosts
.
1 Kings
17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30

mESSAGE OF THE STORy
Be kind to people... Learn to be hospitable, for you may not know when you will entertain angels.

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THE LOAN

An man walks into a bank in
New York City and asks for the
loan officer. He tells the loan
officer that he is going overseas
on business for two weeks and
needs to borrow $5,000.
The bank officer tells him that
the bank will need some form of
security for the loan, so the man
hands over the keys and
documents of new Ferrari
parked on the street in front of
the bank. He produces the title
and everything checks out. The
loan officer agrees to accept the
car as collateral for the loan.
The bank's president and its
officers all enjoy a good laugh at
the man for using a $250,000
Ferrari as collateral against a
$5,000 loan. An employee of the
bank then drives the Ferrari into
the bank's underground garage
and parks it there.
Two weeks later, the man
returns, repays the $5,000 and
the interest, which comes to
$15.41. The loan officer says,
"Sir, we are very happy to have
had your business, and this
transaction has worked out very
nicely, but we are a little
puzzled. While you were away,
we checked you out and found
that you are a multi-millionaire.
What puzzles us is, why would
you bother to borrow
"$5,000" ?
The man replies:
"Where else in New York City can
I park my car for two weeks for
only $15.41 and expect it to be
there when I return?"

.mORAL OF THE STORy
Be wise! Use what you have to get what you want.
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yOU'RE STILL VALUABLe

A well-known speaker started off
his seminar holding up a 1000
naira note. In the room of 300,
he asked, "Who would like this?".
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give this
1000 naira note to one of you
but first, let me do this." He
proceeded to crumple up the
1000 naira note. He then
asked,"Who still wants it...?" Still
the hands went up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "What if I do
this?" And he dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it
into the floor with his shoe. He
picked it up, now crumpled and
dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends" said the pastor, "No
matter what I did to the money,
you still wanted it because it did
not decrease in value. It was still
worth 1000 naira".
Many times in our lives, we are
dropped, crumpled, and ground
into the dirt by the decisions we
make and the circumstances that
come our way. We feel as though
we are worthless. But no matter
what has happened or what will
happen, you will never lose your
value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely
creased, you are still priceless to
those who love you. The worth
of our lives comes not in what
we do or who we know, but by
WHO WE ARE.

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tHE TALE OF THE ODD BOy [a moral tale]

This story is just a tale to teach about contentment. Read and enjoy...

There was once an odd boy who always wanted what was not
his own: his friends' toys, his cousins'
clothes, his parents' books...he
ended up being so envious that
even the hairs on his head were
given to jealousy. One fateful day, it
just so happened that a single hair on
the crown of his head woke up
completely green due to a small stain. Now, when
the other hairs saw this they
became so hugely envious that
they too ended up turning
into green colour.
The following day, a hair near his
hairline was stained by
something blue. Seeing this,
again all the other hairs on his head ended
up blue. So, day after day, the
boy's hair would completely
change colour, driven by the
boundless envy his hairs felt.
Everyone loved this boy's
colourful and ever-changing
hair; except the boy himself. He
always wanted what other
people had, so, of course, he
wanted to have hair just like the
others had. One day, this
angered him so much that he
furiously pulled at his hair. One
rather thin hair couldn't endure
all the pulling, and it let go;
falling to the floor with quite a
nice smooth flight.
Of course, the other hairs saw
this, felt envious, and they all let
go too. Within a minute the boy
was as bald as an egg, and the
look of surprise on his face
seemed like a bad joke.
After many tears and tantrums,
the boy understood how all this
had happened, and how it had
all been a natural consequence
of his envy. He decided that,
from then on, he would try to
enjoy what he had, without
becoming obsessed by what
others had. Trying to put this
into practice he started by
making the most of his smooth,
shiny, hairless head.
He turned it into his own private
drawing canvas. From that day on, he
took to painting beautiful,
colourful scenes on his bald
head. People enjoyed these so
much that the boy finally
developed into one of the
world’s best - and certainly
the world's most original -
artists.

mORAL OF THE STORy
Always be satisfied with what you have. Not being contented with what you have will only yield you negative results.

Make the most of what you have just like the odd boy later did.

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