Fishing experience - Email From Johnathan John

Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman caught a big fish, he threw it back.

The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired of seeing the man waste good fish. "Why do you keep throwing back all the big fish you catch?" he asked.

The inexperienced fisherman replied, "I only have a small frying pan."
 
Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throw back the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that God gives us. Our faith is too small.

We laugh at that fisherman who didn't figure out that all he needed was a bigger frying pan, yet how ready are we to increase the size of our faith? 

Whether it's a problem or a possibility, God will never give you anything bigger than you can handle. That means we can confidently walk into anything God brings our way.

REMEMBER:
Stop telling God you've got big problems. Tell your problems you've got a BIG GOD!

Thoughts

Scientist say that in a day’s time sixty three thousand thoughts pass through our mind. Sixty three thousand thoughts passing through. Not all of these thoughts realize – you choose. Many of these thoughts are good and many bad. It’s upto us to choose which to realize. It’s like the stations in your radio. Just muttering RJ and lying Politicians all making a noise. You choose which station to listen and which to pass through. I wish we could just turn off all our thoughts for a while like the radio.

Over the days you start to get fixed only to one station.That’s the state of our minds. We get locked on to one way of thinking, stopping from even making a choice. We start to become a one track mind and these thoughts starts to realize in our lives.

Think more of what you make happen than what happens to you. Live in the active voice rather than the passive. Live in the first person, evaluating yourself rather than finding fault with others. Care more for your own conscience rather than for the applause of the crowd. If you want a word to live by then choose LOVE.

A Thousand Beads

A couple of months ago, I was driving home through the usual evening Dubai traffic. It was a Sunday evening. I turned on the radio to one of the presets. Along the way, the RJ Chris spoke to an old man about life’s experiences. He came across with a very zealous voice. He began to share his concept of a “ thousand beads”

I was intrigued and turned up the volume to listen to what this guy had to say. "Well, My son Mike, is always very busy with his job. I'm sure they pay him well but it's a shame he has to be away from home and his family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. “Too bad to miss your daughter's dance recital." He continued, "Let me tell you something Chris, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand beads."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Sundays that the average person has in their entire lifetime.

Now stay with me Chris, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail," he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Sundays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a tailor store and bought every single bead they had. I ended up having to visit three tailoring stores to roundup 1000 beads. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right next to my bed.

Every Sunday since then, I have taken one bead out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the beads finish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.

Now let me tell you one last thing before I leave you and take my lovely wife out for dinner. This morning, I took the very last bead out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Sunday, then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time. It was nice to meet you and speak to you Chris, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 75 year Old Man, this is Melvin, good evening and bye"

I could hear my heart beat, the sound of the car didn’t exist, when this old man finished. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about.

That evening changed a lot in my life. My priorities changed.

From my GURU

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. --Rabindranath Tagore

Ctrl+Alt+Delete !!!!

When I logged into my computer this morning, the operating system prompted me saying ‘Your password expires in 5 days. Press Ctrl Alt Del to change your password’. If God send us a message in the morning ‘You expire in 5 days!’ how would we live those five days. What would our priorities be.

Will we find time enough to say sorry to all those we have trespassed. Can we manage to make up with all those we had avoided? Will we be able to spend enough time with our loved ones? Will we be able to visit that great places we haunted in your childhood?

Will we still be making haste to pack all our money to take with us? Will we still gossip?

Who’s Gain Who’s Loss

Squirrel Amitab works in Cher king Singh’s palace. He was very hard working. Cher King Singh wanted to recognize Amitab’s work, so he makes him the employee of the year. During the awards ceremony, Cher King Singh declares that he would give Amitab two more walnuts every year if he works like this. This got Amitab all excited. From then on he would take up more and more responsibilities. His wife and baby squirrels saw less and less of the hardworking Amitab. Days and months passed by… Baby squirrels became adults and left home not carrying any fond memories of father.

After four years came the day of retirement. Cher King Singh calls for a party and amidst all the employees hands Amitab a bag of walnuts for his industrious spell at the palace.

Amitab go home to his wife with the bag of walnut and sits down to eat them, but alas he’s too old and has no teeth to gnaw the nuts.

Secret of happy married life

Perry I can't help but share this. Thanks again

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Once Mathai asked Kuttappan, "What is the secret behind your happy married life?" 

Kuttappan said, "You should share responsibilities with due love and respect to each other.

Then absolutely there will be no problems."

"Can you explain?" asked Mathai.

Kuttappan said, "In my house, I take decisions on bigger issues where as my wife decides on smaller issues. We do not interfere in each other's decisions."

Still not convinced, Mathai asked Kuttappan "Give me some examples"

Kuttappan said, "Smaller issues like which car we should buy, how much amount to save, when to visit home town, which Sofa, air conditioner, refrigerator to buy, monthly expenses, whether to keep a maid or not etc are decided by my wife. I just agree to it"

Mathai asked, "Then what is your role?"

Kuttappan said, "My decisions are only for very big issues....

Like whether America should attack Iraq , whether Britain should lift sanction over Zimbabwe , whether to widen African economy, whether Sachin Tendulkar should retire etc. Do you know one thing, my wife NEVER objects to any of these".

That is the secret of my happy married life !!!