Life is short, don’t waste it with unimportant matters / Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.

Hi Friends,

All of you, young or old must be set and anxious to bring Merry Christmas and the Year 2017 in with a bang.   Wish you all the best and all of you be blessed always. Have a real good time and live in the present 2017 and leave the past 2016 behind and please do not carry any baggage of the past with you as you have to move on in life.

Penning below two short stories for you to read and see for yourself how you feel about it.  I am leaving it to you to judge.

Cheers!

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light.

Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Life is short, energy limited, with this limited energy we have to find the unlimited; with this short life we have to find the eternal. Don’t waste it with unimportant matters

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A group of frogs was traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit.

All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they 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 all of their might.

The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead.

Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die.

He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?"  The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.

A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill him or her.

Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words.... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.

Parsan Narang

17th December 2016