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Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea

Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea

I am sure you might have heard the old comparison between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Anyway both the seas have the same source that is River Jordan. 

Galilee is a lake full of life and people around are happy and lots of vegetation is found along the bank of Sea Galilee. It is because it takes in water but also gives it out. 
In contrast nothing lives in the Dead Sea, because with no outflow, the sea remains stagnated. It only receives and does not give out.

Dear friends which sea would like to become? Do you want to be the Sea of Galilee, who not only receives but is willing to share one's talents and resources with others. Remember happiness consists in giving than in receiving. Or do you want be a Dead Sea who only receives and is unwilling to share one's time, thoughts and ideas with others. If so you will be stagnated.


Now let's try to analyze our own lives and see which sea do I represent. Am I Sea of Galilee or Dead Sea? If Dead Sea let's start sharing our talents and time with others.


I am sure you might have come across people who represents either of the Seas in your community, class, offices, schools, clubs and other areas. Whom did you liked most and with whom did you mingled around? I am sure you liked the person who was always ready to give a helping hand and whose presence brought joy, laughter and smiles on the faces of many. 


Even Jesus represents the Sea of Galilee. He was always bringing joy and peace among the people. He gave Himself totally and served  people till His death. He told that He came not to be served but to serve. So which Sea do  you like to be? If Sea of Galilee start sharing your time, resources, ideas and joy with people around you. Give out to others what you have and outflow rather than remaining stagnated and lifeless.


-Let us serve the Lord in gladness.
-It is giving that I receive. 

THE GECKO

THE GECKO 

(You yourself are the problem)

A student with great interest in an enthusiasm for the Third World came to India and soon suffered a cultural shock. Suddenly everything annoyed him: the climate, the food, the living conditions, the strange mysterious faces around him. But what really made him lose his temper was actually a trifle. They assigned a room to him and moving in, he examined every nook and cranny, only to find to his disgust that he was sharing it with a thick, fat ugly lizard.

He became aggressive, "I refuse to live with that creature." So he tried to catch the intruder in a half a dozen ways, but to no avail. Finally, the lizard hid behind a cupboard. The guest was too proud to ask someone's help. But then in the middle of all this senseless commotion, he suddenly got the bright idea of making friends with the lizard. It was not easy at first.

But now the first thing he does when he enters his room, is too look for his lizard. Soon he even gave him a name. In a short time it  became almost a conversation partner. And he also began to note the good qualities that the lizard had. For one thing it controlled the mosquitoes population in the room.

After a while, this enthusiast began to realise that his problem did not come form his environment but form within himself. 

-Willi Hoffsuemmer

Tonic for the Heart in 1000 bottles 

Vol. 1 

Frank Mihalic, SVD

Dear friends the above story can be an eye-opener to many of us. I am sure many of us do behave like the man who forget to see the problem within himself but blamed the environment. This story can be very well applicable to our community life, our class, offices, schools and colleges. We may want to have the ambient which is of our like and when it is not so we try to find problem with the environment and others.

We begin to find differences with other people and try to avoid them. Like the man in the story we try to get rid of the lizards from our groups and communities who does not fit into our ideas and ideals. Then those people try to hid form us and feel uncomfortable with us. At times we are to proud to introspect ourselves and we demean others. 

But there is another point to be noticed. The person in the story tried to relate with the lizard gradually and became so intimate that he began to learn the good qualities of that lizard. He appreciated the good thing it was doing. Now is the point we need to reflect on. Have we ever tried out to get acquainted with those person's whom we have seen as a lizard or have we ever tried to get accommodated with the new environment? I am sure there are many such lizards of whom we are not aware of. We are not aware of their talents and qualities that they posses. In fact the problem in not able to relate and get along with some of those lizards in our community and other place is not the problem of theirs but the problem is within us our attitude, pride, and ego. 

So dear friends let's get rid of the problems that is within us and let's  appreciate and relate with all in an equal way.Let out inner problem not be a tool of problem in our communities, offices and working places. So let us be aware of the Gecko and appreciate where ever we are and with whom we live with, because we learn many things form them. Let's learn that we ourselves are the problem.

MAKING PEOPLE PRAY

MAKING PEOPLE PRAY

A bus driver and a priest died at the same time. Although the driver was sent directly to heaven, the priest's case was apparently harder to decide. 

"I don't mind that you sent a bus driver to heaven," the priest was heard complaining. "But after all, I was a priest. So why should I be kept waiting?"

He was answered thus from on high, "Father, when you were preaching, everyone was falling asleep. But when the bus driver was driving, everyone was praying."

Saturday Evening Post 

Tonic for the Heart in 1000 bottles Vol. 1

Frank Mihalic, SVD

Dear friends the above story make look funny but there is a point to be pondered upon. As Christians we are supposed to be people of prayer, enabling others to pray well through our life style.  

I am sure many of us are preparing for priesthood and religious life. 

So let's ask ourselves, "Will I be helping people to pray or will I not? What ways will I use to help them pray? Will the congregation pray and listen to God's word when I will be preach to them?"

QUOTES

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1. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it as someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -THE BUDDHA


2. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -CHINESE PROVERB


3. Every day may not be good but there's something good in every day.


4. To love with the purpose of being loved is human, but to love with the purpose of loving is worthy of the angles. -ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE


5. Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - AMBROSE BIERCE


6. Do not desire to be other than you are but desire to be very well what you are. -ST. FRANCIS DE SALES


7. When you meet someone you judge them by their clothes; when you leave them you judge them by their hearts. -RUSSIAN PROVERB


8.We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. 
  -SAM KEEN (To Love and Be Loved)


9. I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot d everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. -EDWARD EVERETT HALE


10. It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise. -NANCY THAYER, MORNING(Scribner)

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