JUST A DREAM
He was an inveterate kicker. His fellow workers had come to take his
complaints with a forced smile. They wanted to like him but he made it difficult
for them to enter into his heart. To this forever complainer the world and all
that is in it were all wrong. Amazing to tell, however, there came a time when
his whole attitude changed. There was a perfect transformation. He went about
with a smile on his face and a song in his heart. The change was so remarkable
that one of his co-workers asked him: "What happened?"
The former kicker told him: "The other night I had a dream. I was
talking with God. I told Him how unpleasant everything was down here- how things
were all wrong an, and just how I would have made the world and people if I had
been given the job." "What next?" asked the astonished
questioner. "Well, the God told me to go to it, to change the unpleasant to
the pleasant, the wrong to the right, hate into love, the ugly into the
beautiful- to just go ahead and make this a better world- for that's why He put
me here."
A story- a dream? Yes. But it is a story that tells a great deal. It's one
that we can all ponder over and examine from a very personal standpoint.
So many times we are prone to see the faults of others while we remain blind
to our own. The other fellow's sin is always more terrible than the one we
privately own. The other fellow often reflects our own faults so vividly that we
dislike him for that reason alone. Let us see good in others. It is always
there. And, just as surely as we contribute kindness, Love, and Unselfish
Service to life, this old earth will take on a Radiant Robe of Beauty.
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