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To Ponder
DIR By: Helen
Date: May 28, 2015, 8:03 pm
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//Man Pushes Wife To Save Himself From A Sinking Cruise Ship.//
A teacher was tutoring a class of students when she relayed a
story about a cruise ship capsized while at sea, and on the ship
was a couple that managed to make their way to a lifeboat but
realized there was only space for one. You’ll never guess what
lesson they learned from the story.
A cruise ship met with an incident at sea. On the ship was a
couple, after having made their way to the lifeboat, they
realized that there was only space for one person left.
At this moment, the man pushed the woman behind him and jumped
onto the lifeboat himself.
The lady stood on the sinking ship and shouted one sentence to
her husband.
The teacher stopped and asked, “What do you think she shouted?”
Most of the students excitedly answered, “I hate you! I was
blind!”
Now, the teacher noticed a boy who was silent throughout, she
got him to answer and he replied, “Teacher, I believe she would
have shouted – Take care of our child!”
The teacher was surprised, asking “Have you heard this story
before?”
The boy shook his head, “Nope, but that was what my mom told my
dad before she died to disease”.
The teacher lamented, “The answer is right”.
The cruise ship sunk. The man went home and brought up their
daughter single-handedly.
Many years later after the death of the man, their daughter
found his diary while tidying his belongings.
It turns out that when parents went onto the cruise ship, the
mother was already diagnosed with a terminal illness. At the
critical moment, the father rushed to the only chance of
survival.
He wrote in his diary, “How I wished to sink to the bottom of
the ocean with you, but for the sake of our daughter, I can only
let you lie forever below the sea alone”.
The story is finished, the class was silent.
The teacher knows that the student has understood the moral of
the story, that of the good and the evil in the world, there are
many complications behind them which are hard to understand.
Which is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge
others without understanding them first.
Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are
loaded but because they value friendship above money.
Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they
are stupid but because they understand the concept of
responsibility.
Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they
are wrong but because they value the people around them.
Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe
you anything but because they see you as a true friend.
Those who often text you, do so not because they have nothing
better to do but because you are in their heart.
One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will
miss our conversations of everything and nothing; the dreams
that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this
contact becomes rare… One day our children will see our pictures
and ask “Who are these people?” And we will smile with invisible
tears because a heart is touched with a strong word and you will
say: “It was them that I had the best days of my life with.”
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Rita
Date: May 28, 2015, 11:05 pm
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Yes, so often we judge on what we think we see, not on what we
actually know - but that can actually happen with God as well -
we think he is not hearing us, we judge on what we do not see
happening, and yet the bigger picture would reveal so much more
if we could see it at the time x
Rita
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Helen
Date: May 29, 2015, 9:45 am
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Amen Rita...thanks for response. :)
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: James
Date: May 29, 2015, 2:14 pm
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Only just saw this it did not come up on "unread posts".
Very good story and good truth behind it, the question is how
does one not make a snap appraisal of a situation? Life demands
that we all rush about trying to be somewhere else, when did
living become so much of a race to be at the next place before
we have even finished up where we are?
[color=black]For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in
this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15But if ye bite
and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of
another.
I was thinking of this verse today and the thought came into my
head do not judge, I need to think a little more on this to see
where the Lord will lead.[/color]
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Pat
Date: May 29, 2015, 3:13 pm
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My mother taught me to always see the other persons point of
view; she never jumped to conclusions and I never heard her
judge anybody.
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Amadeus
Date: June 3, 2015, 5:46 pm
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--- Quote ---
> James:
>
> ...the question is how does one not make a snap appraisal of a
situation? Life demands that we all rush about trying to be
somewhere else, ...before we have even finished up where we are?
--- End Quote ---
Yes, the life of carnal man demands of us, but if we without
seeing or anticipating any results lean heavily on God trusting
Him without always understanding, He will accomplish the right
thing for us, whatever it may be. Do we automatically respond to
situations? Yes, but if a person expends 90% of his time and
effort on pleasing his own flesh according to habits formed in
his lifetime, what else should we expect?
We must, when it is not a quick automatic response that is
needed, practice making a more godly response. I believe... that
if we really work in that direction and regularly ask God to
help us do it His way especially when there is no time to think
long and deeply... that He will help us.
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Helen
Date: June 3, 2015, 8:24 pm
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--- Quote ---
> Quote Amadeus. "We must, when it is not a quick automatic
response that is needed, practice making a more godly response.
I believe... that if we really work in that direction and
regularly ask God to help us do it His way especially when there
is no time to think long and deeply... that He will help us."
>
--- End Quote ---
I have so missed your wise words John. :)
I need to have that "as a frontlet before my eyes." A principle
to live by indeed!!
My mind has been cluttered this last month of two with just
keeping one foot in front of the other...I confess, in some
areas I have just got out of the habit of "leaning."
I much appreciate your faithful reminders. It stirs my heart
again.
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Re: To Ponder
DIR By: Amadeus
Date: June 3, 2015, 9:11 pm
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May God richly bless you Helen in natural body as well in His
Spirit. Give God the glory!
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