A friend texted me this message…
“One day, a rich dad took his son on a trip. He wanted to show how poor
some people can be. They spent time on the farm of a family considered to be
poor. On the way home, the father asked his son “how’s the trip?” The boy
replied “great dad!”
The father asked “did you see how poor some people can be?” “Yes” the
boy answered.
“What did you learned?” the father asked again.
The boy answered “I saw we have 1 dog, they have 4. We have a pool, they
have an endless creek. At night we have fancy lanterns while they have stars.
We buy our foods while they grow theirs. And we have 4 falls for protection
while they have lots of friends.”
“Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are!” the boy added.
Sometimes we don’t need to have all the luxuries in life or be enveloped
with material possessions. These things won’t make us happy. Power cannot give
us contentment and peace. Riches sometimes become an instrument of evil and the
source of hatred. These things cannot make us a perfect or complete person
because there is always something missing in us that would really make us a
true person. That is becoming a person with feeling and understanding.
As the song goes “What the world needs now, is love sweet love. It’s the
only things that there’s just too little of…” Indeed, what we all need is love
and to be loved. There is fulfillment if there is love and peace in our hearts
and if we know how to share these wonderful feelings with one another.
Let us not crave for things we don’t need and we cannot have. Let us be
happy and be contented with the things we have. Let us be thankful that we have
a shelter and clothing, friends around, a family that is loving and caring and
be glad that God loves us so much because everyday He gives us a new beginning
and fresh day to start living our lives with love in our hearts. These things I
believe are more than anything else. So smile and enjoy life because the world is
beautiful!
