How Heavy Is A Glass Of Water?

Author Unknown

A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students.

“How much do you think this glass weighs?”

"50gms!"... "100gms!"... "125gms"… the students answered.

“I really don’t know unless I weigh it,” said the professor, “but, my question is: What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”

"Nothing"… the students said.

"Ok what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?" the professor asked.

"Your arm would begin to ache", said one of the student.

“You’re right, now what would happen if I held it for a day?”

“Your arm could go numb, you might have severe muscle stress and paralysis and have to go to hospital for sure!”… ventured another student and all the students laughed.

“Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” asked the professor.

"No"… was the answer of the students.

“Then what caused the arm ache and the muscle stress?” The students were puzzled.

“What should I do now to come out of pain?” asked the professor again.

“Put the glass down!” said one of the students…

“Exactly!” said the professor.

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Life’s problems are something like this. Hold it for a few minutes in your head and they seem okay. Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache you. Hold it even longer and they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything.

While it is important to think of the challenges or problems in your life, it is even more important to put them down at the end of every day before you lay your head to rest. That way, you are not stressed, you wake up every day fresh and strong and can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way.

So, at the end of the day when you leave your workplace after a day's labor, remember friend to put the glass down.

"Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof." (Mathew 6:34)

     

In The Power of the Tongue

People could change for the better or for the worse. Today people may be good friends, tomorrow they could be bad enemies, or vice versa. In friendship and in hostility, people bless, as well as curse. Blessing and cursing is in the power of the tongue, but he/she who is able to tame his/her own tongue has wisdom and strength mightier than that of an army.

Therefore train your tongue such that in good times, while things are fine between you and other people, be quick to never miss the opportunity to bless and pray for them, so that when there will come a time or a situation where things turn bad between you and them, it would be too late for your cursing tongue to reverse the effect of the blessing and prayer you had given them.

Also, tame your tongue in such a way that in bad times, when things are not good between you and other people, and you can't find the strength to bless them, at least never say a curse against them. You will never know there will come a time when things could turn good between you and them, and it might be too late for your prayer to reverse the effect of the curse you had made against them.

         

[A Repost]: One Blessed Lady (The Gift of Love)

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Mark was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. When she first lost her sight he watched her sink into despair and was determined to help his wife gain the strength and confidence she needed to become independent again.

Click on the link provided below to read the entirety of this short love story and find out in the end how Mark made Susan gained back her confidence. Find out what made Susan even considered herself so blessed despite her blindness.

http://wchimereflections.blogspot.com/2007/03/one-lucky-lady.html

Mark gave her wife Susan a gift more powerful than the physical sight she desperately needed, a gift Susan didn't need to see to believe but which brought her a different kind of light that conquers all her fears of the darkness of her sightlessness.

They who live in the light of God's Love; they walk by faith and not by sight.

Happy Valentines everyone and be blessed for God loves you. :-)