This page is to pray
that we can
all
get along and love each other one day,
just a
few stories to make you stop and
think. The picture below shows how the
young
children know no hatred, they are taught
it.
It is a shame that we cannot be united
as
adults. We are all of the human
race.
THE COLD
WITHIN
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
The first woman held hers back
For on the faces around the fire,
She noticed one was black.
The next man looking cross the way
Saw one not of his church,
And couldn't bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered
clothes;
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and
thought
Of the riches he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
And the last man of this forlorn
group
Did naught except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
The logs held tight in death's still
hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold
without,
They died from the cold
within.
"Beauty Tips by Audrey
Hepburn"
For attractive lips, speak words
of
kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in
people.
For a slim figure, share your food with
the
hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his
fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge
you'll
never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to
be
restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed
and
redeemed. Never throw out anybody.
Remember: if you ever need a helping
hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As
you grow older you will discover that
you
have two hands: One for helping
yourself, the
other for helping others.
Now all we have to do is go out and do
this
in simple, loving, caring, concerned,
and
unpretentious ways.
A story is told about a
soldier
who was finally coming
home
after having fought in
Vietnam.
He called his parents
from
San Francisco.
"Mom and Dad, I'm
home,
but I've got a favor to ask.
I have a
friend
I'd
like to bring with me."
"Sure," they
replied,
"we'd love to meet him."
"There's
something
you should know
the son continued,
"he
was
hurt
pretty badly in the
fighting.
He
stepped
on a land mine and lost an arm and a
leg.
He
has nowhere else to go,
and I want
him
to
come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son.
Maybe
we
can
help him find somewhere to
live."
"No,
Mom
and Dad,
I want him to live with us."
"Son,"
said the father, "you don't know what
you're
asking. Someone with such a handicap
would be
a terrible burden on us. We have our own
lives to live, and we can't let
something
like this interfere with our lives. I
think
you should just come home and forget
about
this guy. He'll find a way to live on
his
own."
At that point, the son hung up the
phone. The
parents heard nothing more from him. A
few
days later, however, they received a
call
from the San Francisco police. Their son
had
died after falling from a building, they
were
told. The police believed it was
suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San
Francisco and were taken to the city
morgue
to identify the body of their son. They
recognized him, but to their horror they
also
discovered something they didn't know,
their
son had only one arm and one
leg.
The parents in this story are like many
of
us. We find it easy to love those who
are
good-looking or fun to have around, but
we
don't like people who inconvenience us
or
make us feel uncomfortable. We would
rather
stay away from people who aren't as
healthy,
beautiful, or smart as we are.
Thankfully, there's someone who won't
treat
us that way. Someone who loves us with
an
unconditional love that welcomes us into
their hearts, regardless of how messed
up we
are.
There's a miracle called Friendship that
dwells in the heart. You don't know how
it
happens or when it gets started. But you
know
the special lift it always brings and
you
realize that Friendship Is Life's most
precious gift! Friends are a very rare
jewel,
indeed.
They make you smile and encourage you to
succeed. They lend an ear, they share a
word
of praise, and they always want to open
their
hearts to us. They accept us and
love us as we are!
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