THE THREE PLACES

An Arab sheik was getting along in years and he felt that it was time to name one of his sons his successor. He had three sons, who were triplets. He loved them all equally and did not know which of them to choose as a successor. So he sent them off to a distant land and promised that the one who would come back with the most useful learning would get the birthright. The three went off to distant lands; attended universities and visited exotic places. The first brother invented magic glasses with which he could see any place he wished to see on earth. The second perfected a magic carpet on which he sat and zoomed to any part of the earth in five minutes. The third son invented a medicine that could cure any sickness. After some years the three came together for a birthday party and explained what they had found. The first son looked through his magic glasses and saw his father dying. The second invited the other two to hop onto his magic carpet and within five minutes they were at their father's side. There the third son took out his magic medicine and cured his father at once. Now the sheik was more confused than ever, since it took the work of all three of them to save his life.... That is the story of Christian education. It needs three places of schooling: the home, the church and the classroom. If one of them is lacking, the other two won't work. Go ahead, share this story with your friends and those you love.

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hARD WORKING FATHEr

Father was a hardworking man
who delivered bread as a living
to support his wife and three
children. He spent all his
evenings after work attending
classes, hoping to improve
himself so that he could one day
find a better paying job. Except
for Sundays, Father hardly ate a
meal together with his family. He
worked and studied very hard
because he wanted to provide his
family with the best money
could buy.
Whenever the family complained
that he was not spending
enough time with them, he
reasoned that he was doing all
this for them. But he often
yearned to spend more time with
his family.
The day came when the
examination results were
announced. To his joy, Father
passed, and with distinctions
too! Soon after, he was offered a
good job as a senior supervisor
which paid handsomely.
Like a dream come true, Father
could now afford to provide his
family with life’s little luxuries
like nice clothing, fine food and
vacation abroad.
However, the family still did not
get to see father for most of the
week. He continued to work very
hard, hoping to be promoted to
the position of manager. In fact,
to make himself a worthily
candidate for the promotion, he
enrolled for another course in
the open university.
Again, whenever the family
complained that he was not
spending enough time with
them, he reasoned that he was
doing all this for them. But he
often yearned to spend more
time with his family.
Father’s hard work paid off and
he was promoted. Jubilantly, he
decided to hire a maid to relieve
his wife from her domestic tasks.
He also felt that their three-room
flat was no longer big enough, it
would be nice for his family to be
able to enjoy the facilities and
comfort of a condominium.
Having experienced the rewards
of his hard work many times
before, Father resolved to further
his studies and work at being
promoted again. The family still
did not get to see much of him.
In fact, sometimes Father had to
work on Sundays entertaining
clients. Again, whenever the
family complained that he was
not spending enough time with
them, he reasoned that he was
doing all this for them. But he
often yearned to spend more
time with his family.
As expected, Father’s hard
work paid off again and he
bought a beautiful condominium
overlooking the coast of
Singapore. On the first Sunday
evening at their new home,
Father declared to his family that
he decided not to take anymore
courses or pursue any more
promotions. From then on he
was going to devote more time
to his family.
Father did not wake up the next
day.

MORAL OF THE STORY
Learn to spend time with your family, show them the love they need, money is not everything, you don't know when you'll be leaving them

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sTUCK FOR FIVE YEARs

This is not just a story, but something that actually happened in Japan. In order to renovate a house, the owner broke open the walls. An as is common in Japan, their houses usually have hollow spaces between the wooden walls. While tearing down the walls of the house, the man found that there was a lizard which had got stuck there because a mail from outside was hammered into one of its legs. When the man saw this, he was overwhelmed with pity for the small creature, at the same time, he felt curious, because the wooden wall was nailed five years ago, when the house was built. How could this little lizard have survived in that position for a complete period of five years in that dark partition without the freedom to move about in search of food? This seemed impossible. While still wondering, he stopped his work and observed the lizard. What and how has it been eating? After a while again, after he had resume working, he saw another appear with done in it's mouth to feed the stuck lizard. Ah! This little creature? The man was stunned and deeply touched. For a lizard to be stuck for almost five long years and another lizard had been feeding it untiringly, without giving up hope on it's partner. Imagine what this small creature can do and imagine we humans such blessed by God with brilliant minds neglect our loved ones.

Moral of the story

Please, never neglect or abandon your loved ones or say you are busy when they need your help or assistance. You may have the entire world at your feet, but you might be the only one they look up to. A moment of negligence night break the very hearts which loves you through all odds. Before you say something,
just remember it takes a moment to break, but it takes a lifetime to make

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THE DREAM

Once a man saw in his dream,
that a lion was
chasing him. The man ran to a
tree, climbed
on
to it and sat on a branch. He
looked down
and
saw that the lion was still there
waiting for
him.
The man then looked to his side
where the
branch he was sitting on was
attached to the
tree
and saw that two rats were
circling around
and
eating the branch. One rat was
black and the
other one was white. The branch
will fall on
the
ground very soon.
The man then looked below
again with fear
and
discovered that a big black snake
had come
and
settled directly under him. The
snake opened
its
mouth right under the man so
that he will fall
into
it. The man then looked up to see
if there was
anything that he could hold on
to.
He saw another branch with a
honeycomb.
Drops
of honey were falling from it.
The man
wanted to
taste one of the drops. So, he put
his tongue
out
and tasted one of the falling
drops of honey.
The
honey was amazing in taste. So,
he wanted to
taste another drop and then
another and as a
result, he got lost into the
sweetness of the
honey. He forgot about the two
rats eating
his
branch away, the lion on the
ground and the
snake that is sitting right under
him. Suddenly
when the branch broke he
remembered all
the
dangers woke up from his sleep.
The man couldn’t understand
the dream,so he
went to a scholar to know its
meaning.
The scholar said ” The lion you
saw is your
death.
It always chases you and goes
where ever
you go.
The two rats,one black and one
white, are the
night and the day. Black one is
the night and
the
white one is the day. They circle
around,
coming
one after another, to eat your
time as they
take
you closer to death. The big black
snake with
a
dark mouth is your grave. It’s
there, just
waiting
for you to fall into it.
The honeycomb is this world and
the sweet
drops
of honey are the luxuries of this
world. We
like to
taste a little of the luxuries of
this world and
it’s
very sweet. Then we want to
taste little more
and
then more. Meanwhile, we get
lost into it and
we
forget about our time, we forget
about our
death
and we forget about our
grave.”
Moral: Life is full of attractions
and
distractions.
And death will come to us
without any notice.
So
prepare for it well in advance so
that you
won’t
have to regret later.
Have a blessed day...

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A TREE WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS

There was a man who had 4
sons, he wanted
them to learn not to judge things
quickly, so
he sent them each on a quest, in
turn to go
and look at a pear tree was a
great distance
away..!!
The 1st son went in the winter,
the 2nd in the
spring, the 3rd in summer and
the youngest
son in the last..
When they had all gone and
return, he called
dem together to describe wAt
they had seen..
The 1st son sed dat the tree was
ugly, bent
and twisted.
The 2nd son sed,"NO..it's covered
with green
buds and full of promise..
The 3rd son disagreed, he sed it's
laden wid
blossoms dat smelled so sweet
and looked so
beautiful..It's the most graceful
thing he hAd
ever seen.
The last son protested.. He
sed,"it's ripe and
drooping wid fruit, full of life
and fulfillment.
The mAn then explained to his
sons dat they
were all right becuz they had
each seen but
One season in the tree's life.
He told them dat U can't judge a
tree or
person by only one seAson, and
dAt the
essence of who dey are...And the
pleasure, joy
and love dAt come from dAt life
cAn only be
measured at the end, wen all the
season are
up..
If U give up when it's winter, U ll
miss the
promise of your spring, the
beauty of your
summer and fulfilment of your
fall.
Don't judge a life by one difficult
season..Don't
let the pain of one season
destroy the joy of
all the rest..!!
Have a blessed day.

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