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A Lesson Learned From a Child
There is a wonderful little story about a minister who, one
Saturday morning, was trying to prepare his sermon under difficult
condition. His wife was out shopping. It was a rainy day and his young son
was restless and bored, with nothing to do. Finally, in desperation, the
minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to
a large brightly color picture. It showed a map of the world. He tore the
page from the magazine, ripped it into little bits and threw the scraps all
over the living room with the words:" Johnny, if you can put this all
together,
I'll give you a quarter."
The preacher thought this would take Johnny most of the morning. But within
ten minutes there was a knock on his duty door. It was his son with the
completed puzzle. The minister was amazed to see Johnny finished so soon,
with the pieces of paper neatly arranged and the map of the world back in
order.
"Son, how did you get that done so fast?" the preacher asked. "Oh," said
Johnny," it was easy. On the other side there was picture of a man. I just
put the pieces of the paper on the bottom, put the picture of the man
together, put a piece of paper on top, and then turned it over. I figured
that if I got the man right, the world will be right."
The minister smiled, and handed his son a quarter. "And you've given me my
sermon for tomorrow, too." he said. "If a man is right, his world will be
right."
There's a great lesson in this idea. If you are unhappy with your world and
want to change it, the place to start is yourself. If you are right, your
world will be right. This is what positive mental attitude is all about.
When you have a positive mental attitude, the problem of your world tend to
bow before you.
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