Inspiring Words
Ada salah satu teman di Friendster yang masukin aku kedalam mail listnya, namanya Niken Kohlruss, email-email yang dikiriminya disamping jokes dan gambar-gambar lucu ada beberapa yang berisi cerita-cerita yang inspiratif dan punya pesan moral yang cukup kuat, dan yang ada dibawah ini adalah tulisan-tulisan dari emailnya yang bagiku memberi kesan yang sangat dalam. Aku sadur ke blogsku ini supaya yang baca blogsku juga bisa mengambil pelajaran dan terinspirasi dari tulisan-tulisan tersebut.
Thanks Niken!
WHAT GOES ARROUND COMES ARROUND
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools, and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son’s life."
"No, I can’t accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At the moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes, "the farmer replied proudly.
"I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of." And that he did.
Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son’s name? Sir Winston Churchill.
THE BRICK
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"
The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister…..please, I am sorry but I didn’t know what else to do," He pleaded." I threw the brick because no one else would stop…" With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It’s my brother, "he said." He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up".
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please, help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
"Thank you and May God Bless you", the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! Push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: "Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It’s our choice to listen or not.
MOMENTS IN LIFE
There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one, which has been opened for us.
Don’t go for looks; they can deceive.
Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile,
because it takes only a smile to
make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Dream what you want to dream;
go where you want to go;
be what you want to be,
because you have only one life
and one chance to do all the things
you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
be based on a forgotten past;
you can’t go forward in life until
you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying
and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end,
you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
THE BLIND GIRL
There was a blind girl who hated herself because of
her blindness. Not only did she hate herself but she
hated everyone else, except her loving boyfriend. He
was always there for her. She said that if she could
only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and
then she could see everything, including her
boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her, "now that you can see the
world, will you marry me?" The girl was shocked when
she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and
refused to marry him.
Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote
a letter to her that simply said. "Just take care of
my eyes dear."
GOD’S LOVE YOU
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength or the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
Read this line very slowly and let it sink in….
"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
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