A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth. The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. "We must do something about grandfather," said the son. I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor. So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner at the dinner table. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather's direction, he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in silence.
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There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best.
A small crack appeared on a cocoon. A man sat for hours and watched carefully the struggle of the butterfly to get out of that small crack of cocoon.
Then the butterfly stopped striving. It seemed that she was exhausted and couldn’t go on trying. The man decided to help the poor creature. He widened the crack by scissors. The butterfly came out of cocoon easily, but her body was tiny and her wings were wrinkled.
The ma continued watching the butterfly. He expected to see her wings become expanded to protect her body. But it didn’t happen! As a matter of fact, the butterfly had to crawl on the ground for the rest of her life, for she could never fly.
The kind man didn’t realize that God had arranged the limitation of cocoon and also the struggle for butterfly to get out of it, so that a certain fluid could be discharged from her body to enable her to fly afterward.
Sometimes struggling is the only thing we need to do. If God had provided us with an easy to live without any difficulties then we become paralyzed, couldn’t become strong and could not fly.
ONCE upon a time a peacock and a tortoise became great friends. The peacock lived on a tree by
the banks of the stream in which the tortoise had his home.
Everyday, after he had a drink of water, the peacock will dance near the stream
to the amusement of his
tortoise friend.
One unfortunate day, a bird-catcher caught the peacock and
was about to take him away to
the market. The unhappy bird begged his captor to allow him to bid his
friend, the tortoise good-bye.
The bird-catcher allowed him his request and
took him to the tortoise. The tortoise was greatly disturbed to see his friend a
captive.
The tortoise
asked the bird-catcher to let the peacock go in return for an expensive present.
The bird-catcher agreed. The tortoise then, dived into the water and in a few seconds
came up with a handsome pearl, to the great astonishment of the bird-catcher. As
this was beyond his exceptions, he let the peacock go immediately.
A short time after, the greedy man
came back and told the tortoise that he had not paid enough for the release of
his friend, and threatened to catch the peacock again unless an
exact match of the pearl is given to him. The tortoise, who had already advised
his friend, the peacock,
to leave the place to a distant jungle upon being set free, was greatly enraged
at the greed of this
man.
“Well,” said the tortoise, “if you insist on having another pearl like
it, give it to me and I
will fish you out an exact match for it.” Due to his greed, the bird-catcher
gave the pearl to the tortoise, who swam away with it saying, “I am no fool to take one and give two!” The
tortoise then disappeared into the water, leaving the bird-catcher without a
single pearl