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SUCCESS

Success may visit you
at any moment of life
Success would stay on
when you’ve paid the price
It’s like the harvest
after sowing the seeds
waiting, watering, nurturing
then comes the season of harvesting.

Success has two friends
by the name "Courage" and "Perseverance"
Success has enemies too
and they are called "Stinginess" and "Jealousy"
Success has a vehicle called "Integrity"
It’s a gift of God and lasts to eternity

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"Good Samaritan"

ONE afternoon my wife and I were playing some outdoor games with our three kids and our niece near the car park of my in law’s apartment. We were really enjoying ourselves, shouting, laughing and some times panting chasing either the shuttlecock or the ball. It was real fun and a time to exercise.

As I was playing with my 8 years old son, Kenrick Jabez, the ball flew over the fence and fell on the back lane. To pick up the ball, we got to take a long walk to go over the other side. As we were walking together, we heard a distend sound of a kitten meowing. We followed the sound and found the kitten trapped inside a drain.

My son was sad and felt pity for the kitten. He told the little weak cat: “Don’t worry, I am Jesus’ son, I will some how help you, just hang on.” I was astonished at his statement. After that, he started pestering me to safe the poor kitten. I got no choice, eventhough some of my family members were worried about my safety. I choose to find ways to help the kitten. So with the help of my son, I prostrate on the ground near the drain and reached out my hands and managed to safe the cat.

Kenrick was very happy but soon he felt sad for the little dirty cat that had injured her legs and couldn’t manage to walk by herself. So both of us carried it to a children’s playground nearby and left it in a safe place before giving her some drinks. I saw joy and satisfaction in the eyes of my son.

Later when we went back home, I told my son, my daughter Judith Kavithra, 9, and their
cousin from the neighborhood the story of the “Good Samaritan”. I turned the Bible to
LUKE 10:30-37 and narrated the illustration Jesus shared with his disciples: “A Jewish
man was traveling on a trip from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he was attached by bandits.
They stripped him of his clothes and money, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road.

“By chance a Jewish priest come along; but when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side”. “Can we do this?” I asked them who were hearing the story attentively. They replied: “No!”

I continued with the illustration: “Then a despised Samaritan comes along, and when he saw the man, he felt deep pity. Kneeling beside him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with medicine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him.”

After telling the story, I asked the kids: “Among the three, which of them was a man with a good character and showed a good example? Certainly, they pointed to the Samaritan. So with that, I added by saying that those who chose to help the needy, like how Kenrick helped the little kitten from danger are called: “Good Samaritan”.
As a conclusion, I encouraged them to help one another, protect and watch over others and always be willing to help the poor and the needy including animals. But, I also warned them to be careful of those who try to take advantages. I told them to be wise and always try to get the help of an adult especially their parents in their attempt to help others.

After hearing the story, the kids feel heroic about giving a helping hand to others and sympathize with those who are in need. Hope this write up will also encourage you to be mindful of others and give you the courage to help another in times of need. Look around you….may be someone who is in deep need right now. It just takes a step of faith and courage and a hand of love and care to be stretched and reach out to the needy soul. Why not? You can make a difference!

#MATHEW 7:12 (Do for others what you would like them do for you.)

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Happy Father's Day

"Like father, like son: Every good tree maketh good fruits" – William Langland. You probably would have heard this so many times. Just as the quotation in the Bible in Matthew 7:17(Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit…"). My sharing will be along this line and I believe it may convince you that this "golden words" are true and applicable even in this modern day lifestyle.
Recently I was having fellowship with a friend who was relating his latest business involvement.

Guess what? Oh! No..no..no, it’s not multi level marketing or some kind of "get rich quick scheme". He was proud to share with me his humble enterprise that includes, breeding goats and quails and also vegetation in his backyard.

He who is in his 30’s told me how much it cost him to purchase these livestock. It’s really quite a sum. Not only that, it is also time consuming. Everyday, after his working hours in a company, he spends about two hours or so to feed and meet the daily needs of his livestock, vegetables and his guard dogs.

One evening as he was working in his little farm, his four years old son who often watches him working in the backyard of his house, came to him and boldly but casually told him: "Daddy, one day when I grow up, I’ll buy a big land and breed elephants, giraffes and other animals."My friend was so surprised at that statement and assured his son that his dream will one day become reality. Who knows, his son may become a big tycoon and be a owner of his own zoo someday.

My friend continued his conversation with me by saying, no matter what people say about our little investments and involvement in an unpromising business in an unpredictable world, we got to keep doing what our hands can do and bring and impact especially to our own children who by God’s grace will take our vision to the next level in the future.

He added: "If you believe something, than you must prepare for it. "Today, he said, our children will believe in what we are doing, tomorrow may be others including our relatives and friends may want to venture into what we have achieved".

Sydney J. Harris ones said: "The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories". This is true even in my own life I grew up seeing my father doing a lot of things such as working very hard throughout the day and serve as a volunteer police in the nights, furthermore involving himself in social and community works, organizing camps for an uniform body and stage shows for some societies and etc. These truly impacted and influenced me to a certain level where I myself got involve in social and community work, write and sing songs as well as organize shows and cut albums and etc.

As both of us were talking over a cup of teh tarik (tea), coffee and simple dishes at a ‘mamak’ restaurant, I was reminded about a story in the Bible about a man called Noah who was a just man, perfect in his generation and a man who walked with God (Genesis 6:9).

According to Genesis 6 – 8, Noah the father of three sons was instructed by God to build an ark because there’s going to be a great flood that will destroy all the living except those who gets into the big boat. This flood is a consequence of the intolerable sin of human beings. Though it took about 300 years to build the ark specially designed and architecture by God, Noah together with his family members who believed in him, patiently took part in the assignment of God Almighty despite of oppositions, persecutions and ridicules until the event took place exactly as God pronounced through Noah.

Because of the faithfulness of Noah who trusted God wholeheartedly and his family members (wife, three sons and daughters in law) who followed his footstep to obey God and walk by faith and not by sight, God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." God also established His covenant with Noah, his sons and their descendents after them. (Genesis 9:1, 8, 9).

As C.H. Spurgeon said: "Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself", so dear friends I think all of us should take this discussion seriously and put it into practice in our own life and set an example to our own children, family members, friends, our disciples and our descendents after us.

# Psalm 32:8 (I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eyes.)

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