The Push: Not easy, but the right thing to do

No eagle chick would throw itself out of its nest. They had to be pushed. That was the right thing for the parents to do. We gotta to do the same for our kids.

Prayer: Does it makes a difference?

A beautiful allegory on how God strains to say yes when we pray taken from Philip Yancey's book on Prayer

Wear your seatbelts

This is the new "wear your seatbelt" ad the UK is doing - started by some guy not hired to do it, but because the cause is important to him, he came up with this idea, and now it's being hailed across the world as a beautiful' commercial.

Morgan Freeman on Racism

Can we rise above our race and religion? Don't imagine everyone doing it. You just make it a point to do it at your personal level and if necessary wait a lifetime for others to do the same. This is what we can do, and what governments and leaders cannot. Real leadership at the personal level making a difference.

Essay from a Child

Got this in the email from a friend writing from Dubai. Here is a lesson for busy parents in denial.

ESSAY FROM A CHILD

A teacher from Primary School asks her students to write a essay about what they would like God to do for them...
At the end of the day while marking the essays, she read one that made her very emotional. Her husband, that had just walked in saw her crying and asked her: - What happened?

She answered - Read this. It's one of my students essays

Oh God, tonight I ask you something very special: Make me into a television. I want to take its place. Live like the TV in my house. Have my own special place, And have my family around ME. To be taken seriously when I talk.... I want to be the center of attention and be heard without interruptions or questions. I want to receive the same special care that the TV receives when it is not working. Have the company of my dad when he arrives home from work, even when he is tired. 
And I want my mom to want me when she is sad and upset, instead of ignoring me... And... I want my brothers to fight to be with me... I want to feel that family just leaves everything aside, every now and then, just to spend some time with me. And last but not least make it that I can make them all happy and entertain them...

Lord I don't ask you for much... I just want to live like every TV

At that moment the husband said:- 'My God, poor kid. What horrible parents!

She looked up at him and said:- 'That essay is our son's!!!     

Farewell to my Father

My father was often uncomfortable and in pain when I visited him in ICU, but I don't ever remember him smiling so much too especially when my brother and sister were also present. He had been preparing to go for many years but no one knows when their day will come.

If he had lived with many regrets, he has found the secret of dying with none. Both my parents died well. All of us would want to go this way.

Phillips Craig & Dean "Nothing To Prove"

As my father lies in ICU waiting for the end to arrive, I receive this from Pam. This is so beautiful and appropriate, I have to share it with all of you. We all need something like this sometime.