HELPING OTHERS

 

Today I’m grateful for understanding how helping others

when they’re feeling hungry or sad or blue…

has this wonderful reciprocal effect…

of helping me feel better too.

KINDNESS

 

May we be blessed to heed the words of Steve Maraboli

Today, more than ever, they have wide-ranging appeal

A kind gesture can reach a wound 

that only compassion can heal

LONG SPOONS

 

To all those willing to take away the rights of innocent people…

willing to watch hungry people around the world starve…as their own bellies balloon…

Perhaps it’s time to revisit the Parable of the Long Spoons.

What’s the difference between Heaven and Hell a man asked one day…

when he found his cancer had no cure.

That night an angel visited him…and took him on a tour.

Their first stop was Heaven…where this man happily observed…

a table that filled a banquet hall…and dinner being served.

The man couldn’t help but smile as they stepped in through the door.

The room was filled with more food than he had ever seen before.

Everyone was talking, laughing…they looked contented, healthy and strong.

one thing caught his attention however….they all held spoons that were 4 feet long.

Before he had a chance to ask …the angel took him into Hell…

where once again he observed….

a table filling a banquet hall…and dinner being served.

Again he smiled as he stepped in through the door

For, just like heaven, this room was filled with more food than he had ever seen before.

But the people in this room weren’t talking, weren’t laughing…

they were weak and emaciated…the entire throng…

and just like in Heaven he noticed they all had spoons that measured 4 feet long.

The old man turned to his heavenly tour guide…“Please, I don’t understand.” He said.

“If they’re both served the same food…why in Hell is everyone going hungry

while in Heaven they are all well-fed.?”

“It’s really very simple,” the angel said. “In Hell people only think of themselves… 

they have yet to find a way…

to feed themselves with their long spoons…

so they go hungry every day.”

In Heaven people care less about themselves 

and more about their sisters and their brothers…

and when they’re hungry they pick up their spoons..

and simply,

feed each other.

DAILY GRATITUDE WANTS AND HAVES

 I am grateful in my life 

that I have been forever blessed

for never allowing the things want

to make me forget the things I already possess.

TIME

 

May we be blessed knowing time is precious….

before each day is gone

to be happy how we spend our time

and who we spend it on.

SOME SUGGESTIONS

 

Time is precious and should be cherished…

because every day a little more sand flows out our cup

and we don’t often have the luxury of knowing…

when our time is up.

 

So may I suggest that

a little more love

a little more kindness

a little more empathy

a little more acceptance

a little more generosity

a lot less wars

a lot less hatred

and a lot less prejudice and defaming …

would help to make this world a better place…

in the time we have remaining.

ENDLESS LOVE SONG

 

I m grateful that my life

has been one endless love song…

and grateful for how my soul is always drawn

to the people and the places it belongs