LOVE is what the world needs

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!