SM-Minute - Profound Words
CHUCK BRAMLET (chuckb@AZTEC.ASU.EDU)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:41:50 -0700
Got this from a friend on another list.
Interesting thoughts, and some good SM-Minute material.
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Subject: FW: Fw: Profound Words
Thought this one from Claude Proctor was pretty good:
Subject: Profound Words
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
"Come in," God said. "So, you would like to interview Me?"
"If you have the time," I said.
God smiled and said, "My time is eternity and is enough to
do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"
"What surprises you most about mankind?"
God answered, "That they get bored of being children, are in a
rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
That they lose their health to make money and then lose their
money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget
the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the
future.
That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they
had never lived."
God's hands took mine and we were silent for while and then I
asked, "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your
children to learn?"
God replied with a smile,
"To learn that they cannot make anyone love
them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.
To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have
in their lives, but who they have in their lives.
To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. All
will be judged individually on their own merits, not as a group on
a comparison basis!
To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but
is one who needs the least.
To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds
in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
To learn that there are persons that love them dearly, but simply
do not know how to express or show their feelings.
To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.
To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it
totally different.
To learn that a true friend is someone who knows everything about
them, and likes them anyway.
To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by
others, but that they have to forgive themselves."
I sat there for a while enjoying the moment. I thanked Him for His
time and for all that He has done for me and my family, and He
replied, "Anytime. I'm here 24 hours a day. All you have to do is
ask for me, and I'll answer."
People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
YiS,
Chuck Bramlet -- I "used to be" an Antelope! WEM-10-95 Member DNRC
ASM Troop 323, Firebird District, Grand Canyon Council, Phoenix, Az.
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