WHITE ON BLACK

"Black is the best backdrop, on which to paint white." - Edwin Biayeibo

 

It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, "do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Someone else said further, to create a path to your destination when none exists already. Do the unusual. Many of us, have grown up to become adults with scars from the many battles life have put us through. Many have been burnt, others have been gutted, yet others have been roasted on the coals of life's challenges.

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THE BUMBLEBEE

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself." - Swami Vivekananda

According to scientists, the bumblebee's body is too heavy and its wing span too small. Aerodynamically, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that and it keeps flying.

When we don't know our limitations, we go out and surprise everyone, including ourselves. We look around and always find a list of many things we cannot do. It is said that, when Ford, told his people he wanted a V8 engine they told him it couldn't be done, he said to them, "do it anyway." Have you been told you cannot fly? Or have you been told that you're so different from the rest, that you're a failure already even before you start? Were you told no one will marry you the way you are? Welcome to reality. 

No matter how enlightened your opponents are on why they think you cannot do what you've been made to do, make sure you check with your creator to be sure you're hearing right.

SUSTENANCE IN THE COCOON

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A man found a butterfly's cocoon. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through a tiny opening on the cocoon. Then it seemed to stop making any progress, appearing as if it had gotten as far as it could. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened. The butterfly spent the next couple of minutes crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It could never fly. What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the butterfly's struggle to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

ARMOUR HONOUR

"What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others." - Alexander Severus

A farmer once sold a pound of butter to a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was really getting a pound, he found he wasn't. This angered him so he took the farmer to court. The judge inquired from the farmer what scale he was using. The farmer replied, "Amour honour, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale."

The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?"

The farmer replied "Your Honour, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."