Wednesday, December 29, 2010

I hope you'll like this.........

Let me share this story with you guys, after reading it,please do hold for a moment to ponder over it ya?......................

A church is having big problem every Sunday due to the limited parking lots, so one day one church member walks up to the owner of a auto shop which is adjourning to the church which happens to have ample parking lots and it also closes on Sunday

The church member then asks the owner of the sundry shop if he will be gracious enough to let the church uses his land for church over spilling cars, immediately the owner says it shall not be any problem and it shall be free of charge as well but the owner attaches a Condition............

The condition as according to the owner is such, the church can use his land for all the 51 Sundays in the whole year for free but on the last Sunday of the year which is the 52nd, his land shall be chained off and barricaded..out of bounds to anyone from the church.

Curiously that church member asks the owner why it is so, since he can let them use the whole of 51 Sundays,why not the last and the 52nd Sunday,to that church member this sure sounds absurd, non comprehensible and ridiculous.,the church member is dying to know what will happen to that last Sunday of the year.

The owner smiles then simply says this," This is to remind you that this is not your land."

We are like that a lot of times, aren't we? We take things for granted. We take our spouse for granted, saying "no need to show appreciation one lah,we've been together for so long already" We take our children for granted too," enough one lah, i send them to many tuition classes, enough lah"

When we have some windfalls, we say to ourselves" spend lah, bad times will not come so soon one lah"We even take our earth for granted." everybody is throwing, everybody is wasting, everybody is burning, what i do is only small fraction of it "

Enough said.......................................... we are own judge.

今天永远不会是昨天

P/S : What is freely given to us today might not be likewise tomorrow.......

25 comments:

  1. I like your post, Eugene. It's a gentle reminder for everyone not to take anyone / anything for granted. Thanks...

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  2. I like how the owner responded, hehe.. Might sounds abit rude but on 2nd thought, its just a friendly reminder...
    Have a nice day~

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  3. Yes, we are now in comfort zone, most of us.. we tend to take everything for granted.. we ought to be thankful with what we have.. but we still need to rant out in our posts.. hahaha...

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  4. Yes, good post! Never take things for granted. Always appreciate and be thankful...and show it!

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  5. I think it is rather funny. Haha :D

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  6. Loved this post of yours. Thank you for sharing which made my day!By the way Happy New Year to You and your family in advance!

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  7. very meaningful post. indeed we should be reminded from time to time not to take things for granted. true enough. thanks for sharing! have a blessed day ahead. :)

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  8. Quite true, taking things for granted that's what most of us do. Be grateful for what you have, no matter how small it is..ehehe

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  9. When things are given free & easy it is not appreciated and well taken care of instead becomes flea & greasy in future. Great reminder tQ.

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  10. Love this post to bits. Thanks for sharing it. The owner is a wise person, and we ought to learn to be grateful in every moment.

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  11. You see what you hope to see in my today post.

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  12. very very true, thats why i also like to read wenny's post, gratitude. a reminder to me when i got it over my head.

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  13. yeap. i truly agree we too often took thing for granted. but lol he is funny though!

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  14. Reminds me of a joke of a nice signboard at the parking lot for the pastor "YOU PARK - YOU PREACH". Btw your good bad & ugly got leaked thru COUNTDOWN wanna add more salt or pepper?

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  15. hahahaha, good one! i have to agree with the shop owner and we shouldn't get angry at him. yes, and we are all guilty of taking things and ppl for granted, esp those closest to us eg spouse.

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  16. Sometimes people do takes thing for granted! A great post for everyone to remember - nothing is free nowadays!

    ~My hub not a runner...he just love badminton!

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  17. LOL, love the story!

    Eugene, Eugene... I shall let my husband read your post right away! He often told me since we have got married for some years(Lou Fun Lou Chai), there's not need to celebrate any anniversary liao!>_<

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  18. We are always take things for granted unknowlingly, but when we knew it, aiyah, we wish we should not do so.

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  19. absolutely agree n also means we r all humans. everyone takes thing for granted. cos we want easy way out, convenient, etc... until something happen, we wake up. So, consciously we always must make it a point to do right n be thankful for EVERYTHING..like the air. air is given to us free from GOd. imagine, if God took that away??,,,

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  20. Best post I have seen blogwalking all week!

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