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Miracles come from love. If we are
willing to open our hearts, to love ourselves and others, life will
always be a miracle. The degree to which we are open and loving is the
degree to which miracles will come our way.
An act of love and gratitude
turned the regular and ordinary Sunday into a very special day for the
pastor in the following story.
For some time I’ve had a
church member provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of
my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I
really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that became
routine. One Sunday, however, what I considered ordinary became very
special.
As I was leaving the Sunday
service a young man approached and said, “Sir, what are you going to do
with your flower?” At first I did not know what he was talking about,
but then I understood. I said, “Do you mean this?” as I pointed to the
rose pinned to my coat.
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What most
people need to learn in life is how to love people and use
things instead of using people and loving things. --
Unknown. |
He said, “Yes sir. I would
like it if you are just going to throw it away.” The little boy said,
“Sir, I’m going to give it to my granny. My mother and father got
divorced last year. I was living with my mother, but I could not stay,
so she sent me to live with my grandmother. She has been so good to me
that I want to give that pretty flower to her for loving me.”
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Love
is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential
to your own. ~unknown |
When the little boy finished
I could hardly speak. My eyes filled with tears and I knew I had been
touched in the depths of my soul. I reached up and unpinned my flower.
With the flower in my hand, I looked at the boy and said, “Son, that is
the nicest thing I have ever heard, but you can’t have this flower
because it’s not enough.
If you’ll look in front of the pulpit, you’ll
see a big bouquet of flowers. Different families buy them for the church
each week. Please take those flowers to your granny because she deserves
the very best.”
If I hadn’t been touched
enough already, he made one last statement and I will always cherish it.
He said, “What a wonderful day! I asked for one flower but got a
beautiful bouquet.”
Love
is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to
service, and from solitude to kinship with others. We will find, as we look back upon
our lives that the moments that stand
out, the moments when we have really lived, are the moments when we
have done things in the spirit of love.
By Tim Pedrosa
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Give freely to the world these gifts of love and
compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in
return, just know in your heart it will be returned.-Steve
Maraboli |
Tim
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