Thursday, November 30, 2006 Malig: A little inspiration By Jun A. Malig Cognition
I WAS checking my emails Wednesday when I saw a message from Fabie Hallig of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers that had an unusual title. I wondered if it was a press release and eventually decided to open it. To my surprise, it was an inspirational piece that I enjoyed reading. Let me share it with you.
“An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was US$10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging. He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him.”
“He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week. He looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket.”
“With the last bit of compassion he had, he gave them the food. The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin.”
“The young graduate said to them, ‘you need the prayer more than I do’.”
“With no money, no job, no food, the young graduate went under the bridge to rest and wait for death. As he was about to sleep, he saw an old newspaper on the ground. He picked it up, and suddenly he saw an advertisement for people with old coins to come to a certain address.”
“He decided to go there with the old coin the old man gave him. On getting to the place, he gave the proprietor the coin. The proprietor screamed, brought out a big book and showed the young graduate a photograph. This same old coin was worth 3 million dollars. The young graduate was overjoyed as the proprietor gave him a bank draft for 3 million dollars within an hour. He collected the Bank Draft and went in search of the old man and little children.”
“By the time he got to where he left them eating, they had gone. He asked the owner of the canteen if he knew them. He said no but they left a note for you. He quickly opened the note thinking it would lead him to find them.”
“This is what the note said: `You gave us your all and we have rewarded you back with the coin. -- God the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 1 Kings 17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30.”
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I guess all of us, notwithstanding our status in life, economic condition, or beliefs need some inspirations to re-energize our minds and re-focus our priorities. The following are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grades. They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers and are posted at inspirationline.com.
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up to Mount cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but the commandos made it.
Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was a actual hysterical figure a and it sounds like he was sort of busy too.
Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes, He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.
Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest President. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assassin was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
Well, children’s innocence, harmless honest mistakes and worry-free attitudes are also some sort of inspiration for many of us.
