Inspiration

We all need guidance to decide what we are going to do when face with life's choices. The counsel we choose to listen to for guidance in our lives, from infant to the grave, will have consequences. Listen as guest speaker Jarek Bekesza expands on this truth from biblical passages.

A man had finally got around to taking all his broken umbrellas to the repair shop.

Next morning on his way to his office when he got up to leave the street car, he absentmindedly laid hold of the umbrella belonging to the woman beside him for he was in the habit of carrying one.

The woman cried "Stop! Thief!", grabbed her umbrella back and embarrassed the poor man no end!

That same day, he stopped at the repair shop, and received all eight of his umbrellas duly restored. As he entered the street car, with the unwrapped umbrellas tucked under his arm, he was horrified to behold, glaring at him, the lady of his morning's misadventure.

Her voice came to him charged with a withering scorn: "Had a good day, didn't you!"

‎"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
- G.K. Chesterton

One form of gentleness we should practice is towards ourselves. We should never get irritated with ourselves because of our imperfections. It is reasonable to be dis- pleased and sorry when we commit faults, but not fretful or spiteful to ourselves.