HEAVEN´S MANUSCRIPTS
A sage presented a prince with a set of three small dolls. The prince was not amused. ”Am I a girl that you give me dolls?” – He asked. ”This is a gift for a future king,” Said the sage. ”If you look carefully, you’ll see a hole in the ear of each doll.” The…
Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such…
This great story from Paulo Coelho comes from his book ”Like a Flowing River.” A father was trying to read the newspaper, but his little son kept pestering him. Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper – one that bore a map of the world – he cut it into many…
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule ‘braying’ — or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer felt sorry for the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the…
Go the extra mile: to go beyond what is necessary or expected in order to please someone, achieve something, or get something done correctly. If you go the extra mile, you make a special effort to do or achieve something. I was 20 and had just finished my first degree when I asked my fathers…
A flood was threatening a small town and everyone was leaving for safety except one man who said, ”God will save me. I have faith.” As the water level rose a jeep came to rescue him, the man refused, saying ”God will save me. I have faith.” As the water level rose further, he went…
Good Morning!!! During Mark’s first month of college, the professor gave his students a pop quiz. He was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until he read the last one: ”What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. He had seen the…
A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the ”half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: ”How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to…
When I was in elementary school, I got into a major argument with a boy in my class. I have forgotten what the argument was about, but I have never forgotten the lesson I learned that day. I was convinced that ”I” was right and ”he” was wrong – and he was just as convinced…
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ”If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a unique manager because he had several waiters…