CLEAN YOUR LENSE
I found this story on a friend’s facebook wall: A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the wife sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. “That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly,” she said, “perhaps she needs better laundry soap.” […]
FOREWARNED; FOREARMED
“To be forewarned is to be forearmed,” says the old phrase. Many years ago, Indian youths would go away in solitude to prepare for manhood. One such youth hiked into a beautiful valley, green with trees, bright with flowers. There he fasted. But on the third day, as he looked up at the surrounding mountains, […]
THE PARABLE OF THE WATER BEARER
A water bearer had two large pots, one hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream […]