Heart Touching Father and Son Story

 

A young man was soon going to graduate college. For many months he used to admire a very beautiful sports car. He knew that his father can afford it so he told him that he wanted that car. As graduation day was near he awaited for signs that his father has bought that car for him. Finally it was graduation day.

On the morning of graduation his father called him to his study. There he told his son that how proud he is to have such good son and how much he loved him. After telling this father handed a wrapped gift box to his son as graduation present.

Curious son opened that gift. He found a Bible with beautiful leather cover. Angrily son in raised voice said to his father, “With all the money you bought me a Bible?” and left house at that instant, leaving book there.

Years passed by he never returned home. Young man become a very successful businessman in mean time. He had a beautiful home and family. Years after he realized that he should go to him as he never returned after leaving the house on graduation day.

Before he could make arrangements to return home to his father he received telegram. In telegram there was message for him informing him about his father death. It was to inform him that his father willed all his possession to his son and he should come home as soon as he can to take care of things.

He returned home but on reaching home his heart was filled with regrets and sadness. He began to search for important papers and saw that the bible his father gifted was still new and he had left it years ago.

With tears he opened the Bible and began to turn pages and as he read those words suddenly a car key dropped from envelope which was stick behind the bible. It had a tag with dealer’s name, same one who had sports car he desired. The date on tag was of his graduation day with words written on it, “PAID IN FULL”.

Moral:

Sometimes we miss blessings just because they are not packed as we expected. We should take time to think and should not get angry and act at instant. Its better to think before act than to regret later.

Life is Beautiful Live it to the Fullest

Once upon a time in a small village lived a very wise man. He was head of local administration and was respected by all. People used to come to him at times to seek good advise on different aspects of life.

But ironically his own son was lazy and nothing was there to make difference in his ignorant attitude. As year passed by old man got worried about his son future. To take care of family he needed to make his son realize his responsibility. So one day he asked his only son to come to him and said, “Son you are grown up man now, and need to understand your responsibilities.”

Surprised and amazed by his father words he said, “Father how will i manage without you. I will be lost without you.”

Now his father replied, “I want you to find real purpose of your life and when you find it, always remember it and it will lead you to life to happiness and joy.”

Next day, his father gave him a bag. When son opened it there were 4 pair of clothes for each season and some raw food, grains and some money and a map. As son was wondering his father said, “I want you to find a treasure.” And that map is of place where the treasure is hidden and you need to go and find it.

Next day, son set out on his journey eager to find the mystery treasure. He traveled across many rivers, forests, mountains to reach his destination. He prayed for well being of his father and wanted to show his finding on when he reach home.

On his journey he met many people some helped him with food and gave him shelter and also met thief’s and robbers who stole his belongings. He wanted to reach there before anyone else. Finally after a long year, He reached the cliff where he could find his treasure but couldn’t find any treasure there.

Tired and devastated by his father’s lie, he headed back home. On his way back he went through same landscapes and weather but this time he stopped and enjoyed the nature like peaceful summer evenings, blooming of flowers etc.

This time he learned to hunt his own food, sew his own clothes ad protect himself from harsh weather. He learned to calculate time of day and also protect himself from wild animals and harmful plants and shrubs.

He met same people who helped him on his way and this time he stopped and spend some days with them, help them with their chores and also show them gratitude. He realized how wonderful were those people who helped passer by without any expectation in return.

Almost after 2 years he reached home. He went straight to his father room. He walked up to him slowly and whispered, “Father” being careful not to disturb his sleep. The wise man opened his eyes and as he saw his son and embraced him.

Father asked, “So, how was your journey son? Did you find treasure?”

Son replied, “Journey was fascinating but forgive me father, i couldn’t find any treasure. May be someone took it before i reached there.”

He was surprised at his own answer because he was asking for his father forgiveness in stead of getting angry at him.

His father smiled and asked him to sit on chair next to him and said, “That’s because there was no treasure.”

Son questioned, “Then why did you send me there?”

Father replied, “I will tell you but first tell me how was your journey while you were going to find treasure. Did you enjoyed landscapes and meet new people made friends?”

Son replied, “No father, I didn’t got distracted. I was focused on reaching my destination as soon as possible. I didn’t have time to enjoy and make friends.

BUT

Yes i must admit that i did all this on my way back to home. I enjoyed my journey back and learned many new skills and mastered art of survival, so much that i forgot the pain of not finding treasure.”

His father held his hand and said, “Exactly my son ,You wanted to know how to lead life and find your goals…but if you lead your life going after a goal on this journey called life , you miss out the real treasures on the way because you are so focused on finding the goal. When the truth is that life has no goal at all, other than to just live it and grow with it each day.”

Moral:

To be what You were Born to be and to Explore your Full potential each day is Life’s only Goal

Business Success – Old Man Debt

Once a businessman got caught in debt real deep and he was not able to think of any way out to sort out that debt. So one day he went out and sat in the park to think if he could do anything to save his company from bankruptcy.

While he was sitting in park, an old man came to him and said to him, “I can see that something is troubling you..”

Businessman was sad and depressed so he told that old man everything about his problem while old man listened to him patiently.

Old man smiled and replied, “I believe i can help you..”

Old man put his hand into his pocket and took out a cheque book and asked that businessman his name then giving that cheque to businessman, old man said, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly after one year from today and you can pay be back at that time..”

After handing that cheque old man got up and walked away. Businessman had mixed feelings. He looked at that cheque and saw that it was cheque of 500,000 $.. signed by Warren Buffet (richest man in the world).

Businessman realized that with half million he can easily get out of his debt but instead he decided to put that cheque in his safe and to use it only in case of emergency.

With that cheque businessman felt more confident. With changed thinking businessman went back and in his business he was able to think better and negotiated better deals. He started reconstructing his business and worked really hard with full zeal and enthusiasm and with time got several big deals.

Within few months businessman was able to get out of his debt and also started making money back.

Year passed, as promised businessman returned to park after exact one year with same cheque which old man gave him. As agreed old man also appeared. Businessman was very happy to see old man and told him about his success story.

As businessman was about to hand old man back that cheque.. a nurse came running up and grabbed old man by his hand and said “I am so glad i caught him.. I hope he hasn’t been bothering you much. He always escaped from mental hospital and tell people that he is Warren Buffet..” and Nurse took that old man away.

Businessman was stunned.. All year long he was dealing with all this problems thinking that he had half million dollars with him..

Moral:

It’s not just Money but our Attitude and Self-confidence that gives us Power to Achieve Anything we want.

What to Focus On “In Life”

 

One day a professor entered in classroom and told students about surprise test. After hearing that all students were seated and waited for test to begin. Now, professor gave test paper to all students with text facing down at desk. Once he was done with handing out test to all students, he asked them to turn test page and begin.

Student’s were confused to see that there was not question but just a black dot in center of page.

Professor noticed student’s face expression and told them, “I want you to write about what you see there..”

Students were still confused but got started with test. At the end of class, professor took all answer sheets and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of all students. All of them described about black dot and tried to explain its position etc.. After professor finish reading and whole class was silent.

Now, professor begin to explain, “Don’t worry, I am not going to give you grade for this but i just want you to think about something. Here everyone focused on black dot wrote about it but no one wrote about the white paper, same is with our lives. We have a white paper to observe yet we just focus on dark spot here white paper represents our whole life and black spot represents problems in our life. As today all wrote about just black spot and no one noticed the whole white sheet same is with our lives.

Our life is a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate – nature renewing itself everyday, our friends around us, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles we see everyday..

Still we just focus on day to day problem like health issues, lack of money, problems in relationships etc. but we never see that these problems are very small compared to everything we have in our lives.”

Moral:

We should try to take eyes off from our problems and Enjoy each one of your blessings, Each moment that life gives you.. Be happy and Live Life Positively..

Inspiring Story – Small Things

Once a woman saw that bus stop near her house had no bench. So she bought a small bench and installed it at bus stop near her house. Everyone used to ask her reason and she would reply, “It’s my neighborhood. Who better to tend it than me?”

When bench was installed – mothers, kids, homeless, teenagers and many other would sit there and wait for bus.

One day, lady saw that bench was covered with bold letters written with spray paint. Lady went home and bought back solvent and gloves and scrubbed it off.

Later many time it would be covered with spray paint, lady would scrub that off. One day, she found that bench corners were broken, she re-mortared it.

Passengers came and went, some left garbage. Lady would go and pick that up and would say, “I want it to be beautiful and clean here.. If i don’t pick it up then from who can i expect to pick it up..”

Some days later, she found that bench slab corners was broken. Lady cursed and cried and she wasn’t sure anymore what to do.. For week that bench parts sat there broken and no one came forward to mend it.

Finally that lady asked some neighbors for help and loaded it into her van and then drove it to a mason and asked him to cut off broken part and make a shorter bench and then they reinstalled it.

People began sitting on it again and comfort themselves while waiting..

Just two days later she saw that bench was off it’s leg from one side. She tired to move but was not able to do it. She looked at bench and light graffiti marks left on it and then she walked home and fetched her husband to help her set it back in place with another round of mortar.

Evil or destruction is easy. It is fast and frequently dramatic but goodness is tenacious. It grows out of the humble, persistent efforts of individuals (often unseen and unsung) who are determined to bring beauty and care taking to the people that they touch and the communities in which they live.

The Rock in the Road Story

It was reign of King Paul. People lived happily under his reign. He was so conscious about keeping them happy and considered the people in his reign as his own family. He took utmost care to fulfill every need of his fellowmen.

However, often, King Paul used to hear tantrums from his court men that people in his kingdom are bullying him for various reasons and seem to be dissatisfied for nothing. He decided to find out what make his fellowmen feel displeased. One day, he decided to take a round visit to examine what the people concerned about him. He started his travel to visit the towns and cities in disguise. He could not see any men unhappy and this made the king so happy. It was half way through the journey and he was delighted to see happy men.

He decided to place a huge Rock on the mid of the road to test the people who pass by the road. His soldiers placed a huge rock on the road and all of them got hidden in the nearby place to watch what happens next.

The rock almost covers half of the road and caused a disturbance in riding vehicles. Many wealthy people in his reign came by the road; still they simply walked around the boulder. Nobody really seemed to be cared about the rock disturbing the movements of vehicle.

There were some of the wealthiest people who pass by the road. Also, King’s court men also saw the rock and did nothing to move it away from the middle of the road. In addition, they bad-mouthed about the king for not maintaining the road properly. These are the people who king believed to be his loyal group and well-wishers!

The king was shocked to hear these words.

A fruit seller passed by the road with his loads of fruits. He stopped himself when he saw the huge rock. Then he put aside his burden, and tried to move the stone. After several attempts of pushing, lifting and moving the rock, he succeeded in removing the obstacle from the road.

He saw a huge bag placed under the rock. He took the bag and was extremely surprised. The bag had a note saying, ‘Here is the gift for you! It has 1000 gold coins and it is for the one who removes this obstacle from the road!’

The fruit seller was so happy and he was invited by the King for a feast and rewarded nicely.

Moral:

Every obstacle we face in our life has an opportunity!

Little Girl Necklace

Menu is a sweet, lovable and beautiful girl, aged six years. She is an adorable kid as she obeys every word of the elders. Menu’s parents loved her for her amazing behavior.

One day her mother took her to grocery shopping. As they passed the shops, Menu noted a cute plastic pearl necklace in dazzling pink! She asked her mother to buy her the necklace. Her mother told her it cost a few pennies and she asked her to do some chores, so that for every completed work Menu will get some money and she could buy the pink necklace.

Menu prepared a to-do list and assisted her mom with all the chores. Her mom was so happy and she paid enough money to buy the pink necklace. Menu happily purchased the desired necklace and wore it just everywhere, every time, except while taking bath. Her mom told that her neck would turn pink and the pearls would lose its sheen if she wore it while bathing. She wore it even while sleeping.

Menu was known for her kindness and respect to elders. Her dad wanted to play with her. Her daddy used to tell her bed time stories frequently.

One day, after completing a story, her dad asked how much she loved him. Menu replied, ‘you know how much I love you’.

Dad asked, ‘Then give me your pearl necklace please!’

Menu replied, ‘Please daddy, I love you so much but please don’t ask pearls. I will give you the pink Barbie which you bought me a month ago.’

Dad replied, ‘Fine sweetheart.’ and left.

After a few days, the same conversation was held between Menu and her dad.

Again, Menu refused to give her pearl necklace and instead asked her dad to take her pet.

Dad kissed her and left with smile.

This conversation was repeated several times.

One day, she slept while her dad was reading her a story. As he was about to leave her room, Menu in her sleep, said, ‘Here dad, please don’t take the pearl necklace.’ She was holding the necklace in her hands. Her dad with a big smile gently without disturbing her sleep, took off the pearl necklace from her hand. The next moment, she woke up and asked, ‘Dad what are you doing?’

Dad replied, ‘darling your pearl necklace had fallen on the floor, I was just picking!’

Dad, by hiding the plastic necklace taken by Menu’s hand, immediately opened the jewel box placed near her bed and handed over the real and precious pink pearl necklace to Menu, and said, ‘Sweetheart, here is your necklace!’

She replied, ‘Thank you dad!’

Menu’s dad had been trying for a long time to make her give up the cheap pearl necklace for the real one. Finally, she gave-up fake and grabbed the real one.

Moral:

God wants us to give up all those fake and cheap things we hold very preciously in our life. It can be habits, hatreds, harming relationships, activities, negative thoughts, etc. He will provide us genuine things to give up the fake!