Are we alert enough to learn…? When one of the great Sufi Masters from Baghdad, Junaid Baghdadi, was dying. His chief disciple came close to him and asked, “Master, beloved Master, you are leaving us. One question has always been in our minds, but we could never gather courage enough to ask you. Now that you are […]
Once a wise man asked God, “What is the meaning of life?” God replied, “Life itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create a meaning.” Life is a book of pages. We laugh. We cry. We smile. We stumble. We stand. We fail and we succeed. Every chapter defines who we really […]
“Honey,” at the breakfast table, a woman said to her husband, “last night, I dreamt that you gave me a necklace of pearls. What do you think it means?” Smiling, the man kissed his wife and whispered, “You’ll know tonight.” Sure enough, that evening, he came home with a small package beautifully wrapped. With a […]
His name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, […]
A man feared his wife wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem. The doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give […]
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” — Anonymous In ancient times, a king had his men place a boulder on a roadway. He then hid in the bushes and watched to see if anyone would move the boulder out of the way. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers passed by and […]
There comes a point in our lives when we need to pause and redefine who we have become. This is perhaps one of the toughest challenges that we will have to face — after all, it involves observing, changing and reshaping ourselves. There might not be such a thing as a “life expert” that can […]
How often do we pause and ask ourselves what we are missing in life? In an ideal world, everyone would do this once in a while, so that there are no future regrets. But unfortunately, the reality we live in is far from ideal, especially as time ticks away before our very eyes. In fact, we rarely find the time to […]
By the time the Lord made mothers, He was into the sixth day working overtime. An Angel appeared and said “Why are you spending so much time on this one?” And the Lord answered and said, “Have you read the specification sheet on her? She has to have 200 movable parts; run on black coffee and leftovers; […]
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump out of the pit with […]
