AN ASSORTMENT OF SORTS

AN ASSORTMENT OF SORTS

• “Women blink nearly as much as men”. This is scientifically confirmed fact. Here are some more facts to amaze you.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
• Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
• It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs… but not downstairs.
• It’s physically impossible to lick your elbow.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• No word is the English language rhymes with the word “MONTH”.
• OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE FROM THE BIRTH. But our nose and ears never stop growing. Scary isn’t it”
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist! (No wonder his chair looks so weird!)
• All polar bears are left-landed.
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. (Wow! What a facelift!)
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• “Go” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Add “D” and it becomes the holiest word in the English language!
• A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out. (Doesn’t gossip much I guess!)
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

And to crown this assortment of facts, read this last one.

ALMOST EVERYONE WHO READS THIS WILL TRY TO LICK THEIR ELBOWS! 

YOU TRIED TO LICK YOUR ELBOW, DIDN’T YOU?

-         Compiled by Adolf Washington

I hope you like it and thought over it. Actually I liked it very much when I read it first and I did try to lick my elbow but was unsuccessful. Hope you also did it.

A BUNDLE OF POSSIBILITIES

William Barclay tells the story about an old school teacher. Before beginning to teach a class, he used to stand before his class and bow to them. He always did this with great reverence.

One day someone asked him why he did this. He replied that he did this because he just didn’t know how many of the children might turn out to be big shots. He saw each child as a bundle of possibilities and he bowed in the belief that many of them would become unique, special, and worthy of deep respect in later life.

God endows each of us with the potential to become great in the best sense of that word. So how am I making use of this bundle of possibilities? Am I just letting go the opportunities that come my way? Do I neglect my God given talents and potentials? Do I give respect to my companions, my juniors and seniors? Am I able to see a bundle of possibilities in them?

-                            Others deserve respect, have a right to it; it is what a human being should receive. Quite often it comes only when the other has merited it through success, authority, power or influence.

-                            Everybody is on earth with equal right. The most handicapped child is on this earth with as much right as the greatest genius that ever lived.

QUOTES I liked FORM THE BOOK

“THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI”

- Robin S. Sharma

1.     The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself. (pg. 100)

2.     Fear is nothing more that a mental monster you have created a negative stream of consciousness. (pg. 101)

3.     Time mastery is life mastery. (pg. 160)

4.     Failing to plan is planning to fail. (pg. 163)

5.     We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. (pg. 170)

6.     Positive always overcomes negative. (pg. 151)

7.     Stop putting your happiness for the sake of achievement. (pg. 194)

8.     Life doesn’t always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need. (pg.189)

9.     Self-knowledge is the steeping stone to self-mastery. (pg. 63)

10.                        Quick-fixes do not work. All lasting inner change requires time and effort. Persistence is the mother of personal change. (pg.52)

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

Two flocks of sheep shared the same pen at night. Early in the morning one of the shepherds opened the pen, and cried out ‘Marah’ which is the Arabic for ‘follow me”, and all of his sheep left the pen and followed him.

Another man, watching this, was fascinated so he borrowed the other shepherd’s cloak and staff, and cried out “Marah” – and none of the sheep paid the slightest heed to him! He asked the shepherd if any of the sheep would ever follow someone else rather than him. ‘Yes,’ said the shepherd. “Sometimes a sheep can be so sick that it will follow anyone!”

-                            “I am the good shepherd; I know mine, and mine know me. They will heed my voice”.

-                            Seldom have I seen a young person get into trouble without having being led their by someone else. Surely we must accept that the opposite is always true. Therefore we all have an obligation to give leadership.

JUDGING!

JUDGING!

One day a partially deaf lad was given a note form his teacher to give his mother, suggesting that she take him out of school, because he was too stupid to learn. The mother’s reaction was to it, and begins teaching him herself. The boy grew up, and Thomas Edison, for that was his name, left a wealth of inventions that leaves us all deeply in his debt.

He invented the motion picture, the record player and the light bulb. When he died, the US as a nation switched off all electric lights for one minute in his memory, at a time decided on the national level.

Dear friends, how wrong we can be in our judgments about the other person.  Our rash judgments can be totally wrong as the teacher in the above story. We need to learn form Edison and his mother to look at the events form the optimistic point of view. Both never gave up though Edison was seen as a stupid boy in the class. He knew his resources and tapped it well, so we too have got that ability so let’s find out our resources and channel it on the right path.

-                            Herb Barks wrote: “God don’t make no junk!” How often do people find themselves on the scrap heaps of life through the rejection of others?

QUOTES

QUOTES

1. He who asks is a food for 5 minutes but he who does not ask remains fool for ever.

2. Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.

3. Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

4. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will  come.

5. Rereading a good book is like seeing an absent friend once again.

-Carlos Martinez Vazquez

6. Failure is when you stop trying. You have to keep trying till the last ball is bowled and you have to ensure that it doesn't exist in your book.

- Geroge Abraham

7. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

- Joseph Joubert

8. At times it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if your are a fool thne to open it and remove all their doubts.                                - James Sinclair

9. Millions said the apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why?

-Bernard M. Baruch

10. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan. 

ARE YOU JESUS?

ARE YOU JESUS?

One day a religion teacher began a class on Jesus by saying to some young children:

“Today I must tell you about someone whom you all must meet. He’s a person who loves you and cares for you, even more than your own family and friends. He’s a person who’s kinder than the kindest person you know. He’s a person who forgives you, no matter how often you do wrong. No matter what you wrong, he is always ready to accept you to love you and to understand.

The teacher noticed a little boy getting more and more excited as he talked. Suddenly the little boy could hold back no longer. He blurted out, ‘I know the man you’re talking about. He lives on our street.”

Dear friends do our neighbours, youth, children see us like Jesus? We are children of Christ and one way of our living suppose to be the way of Christ. Do people see me as a bearer of Christ in my dealing, talking and action?

v    To be a Christian is to be someone who shows others, in practice some of what Jesus is like. 

v    It is important to Jesus that others recognize us a belonging to him. “By this will all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another.” (Jn 13:35)

v    You shall be my witnesses…to the ends of the earth.