A heart filled with gratitude is like a magnet that attracts miracles, so stop fretting over what you don’t have and start showing gratitude for what you have.
Forgive; for things don’t happen in life without a reason —they happen to teach you something that will help you grow.
A primary school teacher asked her young pupils to draw a picture of something they were thankful for.
Having given them instructions she walked around the class with little expectation from the pupils because of their farming backgrounds.
She knew that most of the class would draw pictures of turkeys or a food laden thanksgiving table.
She was pretty sure that that was what thanksgiving meant to them.
As she walked around the class she stopped at George’s desk to check on what he was upto because he was a quiet pupil and did not have many friends.
His drawing was quite intriguing — he had drawn a hand.
But whose hand was it? The class laughed and joked about the image. “It must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one pupil.
“A farmer,” said another.
“It looks more like a policeman’s hand, they use them to protect us.”
“I think,” said Mercy, who was always serious, “it is the hand that help us, but George could only draw one of them.”
The teacher had almost forgotten George in her pleasure of finding the class so responsive. She bent over his desk and asked whose hand it was.
George mumbled: “It’s yours, teacher.”
Then she recalled that she had held George’s hand from time to time; she often did this with the children. But that it should have meant so much to George was surpring. Perhaps, she reflected, this was her thanksgiving gift — not the material things given to us but the small ways in which we give something to others.
When you do good, the goodness will come back to you. What goes around comes around, so stay positive and don’t forget to learn from everything that life provides.
True power is the ability to do good to others: Small acts of kindness may mean everything to someone so do all the good you can at all time.
When you expect something from people you help it is business not kindness.
Your blessings double when you give without expecting anything back.
It is not happy people who are thankful, but thankful people who are happy.
A heart filled with gratitude is like a magnet that attracts miracles, so stop fretting over what you don’t have and start showing gratitude for what you have.
Forgive; for things don’t happen in life without a reason —they happen to teach you something that will help you grow.
Bharatam is the founder and chief mentor of Kuza Biashara Limited, a capacity-building organisation coaching youth and SME owners across Africa. He can be reached @Sbharatam or [email protected]
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