A biology teacher was teaching his students how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. He told the students that in the next couple of hours, the caterpillar would struggle to come out of the cocoon, but no one should help the butterfly. Then he left. The students were waiting and it happened. The butterfly struggle to get out of the cocoon and against the advice of the teacher, one of the students took pity on it and decided to help the butterfly out of the cocoon. He broke the cocoon to help the butterfly so it didn’t have to struggle anymore. But, shortly afterwards, the butterfly died.
When the teacher returned, he was told what had happened. He explained to the student that it is a law of nature that the struggle to come out of the cocoon actually helps develop and strengthen the butterfly’s wings. By helping the butterfly, the boy had deprived the butterfly of its struggle and the butterfly died.
Apply this same principle to our lives. Nothing worthwhile in life comes without a struggle.
“Trials in life can be tragedies or triumphs, depending on how we handle them. Triumphs don’t come without effort.” |
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Luck Favours Those Who Help Themselves |
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A flood was threatening a small town and everyone was leaving for safe ground except for one man who said, “God will save me. I have faith.” As the water level rose a jeep came to rescue him, the man refused, saying “God will save me. I have faith.” |
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Attitude
We all know the Biblical story of David and Goaliath. Goliath was a giant of a man. He struck fear in everyone’s heart. One day, 17-year-old shepherd boy came to visit his brothers and asked. “Why don’t you stand up and fight the giant?” The brothers were terrified of Goaliath and they replied. |
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Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a young boy. He started out by doing odd jobs and ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in United States. At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. A million dollars is a lot of money today, but in the 1920s it was worth much more.
Someone asked Mr.Carnegie how he dealt with people. Andrew Carnegie replied, “Dealing with people is a lot like digging for gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold you have to move tons of dirt. But when you go digging, you don’t go looking for the dirt,you go looking for the gold.”
Andrew’s reply has a very important message. Though sometimes it may not be apparent there is something positive in every person and situation. We have to dig deep to look for the positive. What is our focus? What are we looking for? Gold or dirt? Even in paradise, fault finders will find faults. Most people find what they are looking for.
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure.” Norman Vincent Peale
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There was a man who made his living selling balloons at a fair. He had balloons of many different colors, including red, yellow, blue and green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air. When the children saw the balloon go up, they all wanted one. |
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