Tempestuous

There once was a little girl who had a bad temper. His father gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost his temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day, the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all. She told her father about it and the father suggested that the girl now pull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper. The days passed and the girl was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my girl, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."

The Flower

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away.

As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing.

He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother.

But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars."

The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose."

He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers.

As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home.

She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother."

She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.

The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.

Bestfriend

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

Learn to write your hurts in the sand, and to carve your benefits in stone.

The Eagle

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks?

The Eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it.

The eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm.

When the storms of life come upon us - and all of us will experience them - we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God. The storms do not have to overcome us. We can allow God's power to lift us above them.

God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives. We can soar above the storm.

Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them.

Ants

Lesson from the ants:

No matter how busy they are in their labor,

They manage to stop just to greet their friends.

The Leaf

Leaves of trees just keep on falling...

Lesson?

You can never let someone to stay with you forever.

Sometimes you have to let them Go.

But you have to remain standing like Trees do.

Because in the right time, new leaves will replaced all branches...

Better than before.

Secret of Success

When I woke up this morning I asked myself:

What are some secrets of success in life?

I found the answer right in my head: "Aim High"

Window said "See the world"

Clock said "Every minute is precious"

Mirror said "Reflect before you act"

Door said "Push hard for your goals"

and don't forget...

The floor said...

"Kneel down and pray."

The Chapter

In a service,

Pastor: Next Sunday, I’ll preach about the sin of lying. To understand more, I want you all to read Mark 17...

The following Sunday...

Pastor: How many of you had read Mark 17?

Almost every hand raised except for a guy who was dressed like a gangster member.

Pastor: Why my son you didn’t read what I tell you?

Guy: Well, I can’t find the 17th Chapter...

Pastor: (smiled)

“Mark has only 16 chapters. Let’ now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying.”

Jesus

He had no servants, yet they call Him Master.

No degree but they call Him Teacher.

No medicines and they call Him Healer.

No army yet kings feared Him.

He won no military battles yet He conquered the world.

He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.

He was buried in a tomb yet He lives for us again.

Should we not trust Him with our lives?

Perfect World

A father was reading a newspaper...

He didn’t want to be disturbed by his little girl so he cut out a map of the world,

tore it to pieces and gave it to her to assemble,

after a while she returned to him with the map all in perfect order.

Every piece in its place.

The suprised father said:

“Honey, you don’t know anything about geography so how did you do it?”

The innocent girl replied:

“The picture of Jesus is at the back and I know if I had Jesus in the right place,
the whole world would be perfect.”