Wisdom Nuggets: Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
People who don't like to give must realise that they are being controlled by their wealth. What they own possesses them; they do not possess the things they own.
- Og Mandino
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People who don't like to give must realise that they are being controlled by their wealth. What they own possesses them; they do not possess the things they own.
People filed into church one Pentecost Sunday and collected the
bright red carnation the ushers were sharing. The people
listened attentively to the reading of the Pentecost story from the Book of
Acts about how the disciples had heard “what sounded like a powerful wind from
heaven”; about how the Holy Spirit had appeared “like tongues of fire.” Then
came the sermon: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon us,” the preacher began. “Like
the powerful wind from heaven!” shouted a woman sitting in the first pew. Then
she threw one of the red carnations toward the altar. The preacher began again:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon us.” The same woman’s voce rang out again,
“Like the tongues of fire, the tongues of fire!” Again, she threw a red
carnation toward the altar. The preacher looked straight at her and said, “Now
throw your pocketbook.” To which the woman replied, “Preacher, you have just
calmed the wind and put out the fire.”
We may laugh at such stories, but it should be taken seriously.
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