Forget the bad, and focus on the good

A man and his fiance were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage." She offered.

"Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husbands eyes.

"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing" the husband replied, "keep reading your list."

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it.

"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists." She said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

IN LIFE, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them.

We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise.

Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying things when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

I believe that WE ARE HAPPIEST when we see and praise the good and try our best to forego the mistakes of our spouse. Nobody's perfect but we can find perfection in them to change the way we see them. It is necessary to understand the difficulties and be a helping hand to each other....

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. ♥" 

Wishing you guys a beautiful week!

God Is Getting Ready For You

From Paralympics to the Olympics: Double Amputee South African Athlete, Oscar Pistorius Inspires the World at the London 2012 Olympics!

“You are not disabled by the disabilities you have. You are able by the abilities you have.” – Oscar Pistorius

The London 2012 Olympics boasts of a wealth of inspiring athletes whose stories of courage and determination continue to inspire.

25 year-old Oscar Pistorius whose record as the first double amputee to compete at the Olympics and the first athlete to compete at both the Paralympics and Olympics games is nothing short of inspiring.

The sprinter from South Africa made his debut at the Olympics this year and his presence at the Olympics was not only an inspiration to thousands of people living with disabilities around the world but also able-bodied people who have been encouraged by him.

He had his lower legs amputated as a baby after he was born without either fibula. According to hiswebsite, Pistorius took up running to bounce back from a rugby injury at the advice of his doctor when he was 16. The next year, he competed in his first Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004 and won a gold medal in the T44 200-meter race, breaking an existing world record.

His achievements in sports has garnered him worldwide recognition. He was one of the Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and is the 2012 Laureus Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability.

The man who is popularly called “The Blade Runner,” and “The fastest man with no legs” has  grown into one of the world’s fastest 400-meter runners.

Last Saturday, he ran on his prosthetic legs Flex-Foot Cheetahs in the first heat of the men’s 400-meter race, qualifying for the semifinal round. However, he did not qualify for the finals after running at the Semi-Finals but he is not out of the games yet. Pistorius is still expected to run the 4×400 relays, which starts on Thursday.

Pistorius had a challenging journey to qualifying for the Olympics. The IAAF, the world governing body for athletics, ruled him ineligible for competition in 2008, but the Court of Arbitration for Sports unanimously overturned that ruling a few months later. He attempted to qualify for the Beijing Games that summer, but came up short in the 400 and was not selected for South Africa’s 4×400-meter relay team. He did, however, win gold medals in the 100-, 200- and 400-meter races at the Beijing Paralympics, adding to a pair of medals he won in Athens.

Pistorius would compete in the Paralympc games coming up soon after the Olympic games in London.

His goal at the Olympics is to prove that Paralympic athletes are just as inspiring as able-bodied athletes and he has done just that. “At the end of the day, if I can show people that Paralympic athletes are just as inspiring as professional able-bodied athletes that would be great,” he told NBC.

We celebrate his doggedness in the face of obstacles and indeed, we are truly inspired.

Determination

Read this:
A priest told this story about determination:
I normally visit the cancer ward in hospitals most times to get inspired and to pray with the Patients. There was this particular man, John by name, who was suffering from pancreatic cancer; one of d most severe of cancers.
Each time I visited and inquired about how the patients are fairing, the nurses and some doctors present would tell me John is sick and is expiring, they believed he won't survive but when I go in to see John he would tell me; "Father don't mind them am not going anywhere!" more so, he took his drugs promptly. And with each visit, I marvelled at John's determination to survive.
Its been 3 years now and John is alive and well saved by his will to live.


Determination is the difference between success and failure. When you ask God for Courage, He doesn't just throw it down but He gives you the opportunity to be courageous. He throws in the opportunity for you to become what you want to be.
My prayer for you this week is that you would have the opportunity to be the best at what you do and that you would excel in Jesus name, Amen!


Have a beautiful week!!!

Helping One Another

Humanity

 

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
“Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest a while.

He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.

“Who was that man?” he asked.

The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.

“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied.
“I never saw him before in my life.”

“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”

“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.”

 

An example of true humanity.

 

The Search For A Life Partner

(At a table in a candle-lit restaurant overlooking the ocean, man and woman sit gazing longingly into each others eye.)

Man: (taking her hand) Baby, I love you, and each time I look into your eyes I see forever and a day, hold my hand honey, let’s walk this road together, be my wife, have my kids. Baby, would you
please marry me?
Woman: (stands up and lands a stinging slap on his face) I knew it!
Man: Babe! you just slapped me?
Woman: I just knew it!
Man: You knew what?
Woman: So it was you?
Man: Me? what did I do?
Woman: (Pacing back and forth,pointing at him)So it was
you all along?
Man:Babe, you are scaring me!
Woman: Ha! and pastor said it!
Man: Pastor said what?
Woman: Yes, pastor saw it! Even I (beating her chest) I saw it in my dreams! So it was you?
Man: Babe! are you alright?
Woman: Keep quiet and let me talk. I have waited more than two
decades, I have prayed, fasted, s owed seeds, bought books and listened to tapes, even went out of my way to be nice to every male specie of marriageable age! Every Saturday was a different
mall, I went from the galleria to city mall, from the palms to e-center, looking for you! I left my “chick-lit-flicks” for sci-fi movies that I didn’t even understand, just so I could learn how to enjoy the
things you love. I took up new hobbies,watching football and play station. I went to Daystar, from Daystar, I went to House on the
rock,from House on the rock I went to This Present house, from there I went to Guiding light Assembly, looking everywhere for you like I was looking for a needle in a haystack!
(Turning around suddenly to face him)
Are you a needle? Did I have to buy a microscope or telescope to see you? I lost weight, went from a size 14 to a size 10, so that
when you see me you’d love what you see. I took a short course at Lagos business school, worked for all the Multi-nationals . I even
opted to be seconded to Australia, I said to myself, "maybe he is white.” I came back empty handed! Then I left Lagos, went to Abuja, from Abuja I went to Port-Harcourt, then I went all the way to Kano, abi? I didn’t even mind if you were “malo!” I joined hi-five, from hi-five to faceboook,then I went to twitter,I even had a blog on which I ranted, hoping you would show up! for where?
I uploaded only my best pictures on facebook, infact I took photo sessions to look my best, all for you o! My friends ended up matchmaking me with every Tom, Dick and Harry,at first I didn’t like it,but as I grew older, I embraced it! I attended all the weddings, whether the invitation was direct or indirect!You know what they say about meeting your life partner at weddings? The next place I was hoping to check was the moon, before you crawled out, crawled out from the house directly next to mine!So it was you all this while? The neighbour I said hello to every morning? Were you trying to destroy my faith? You almost rendered my prayer life useless? What were you doing HIBERNATING in that house all this while? What were you waiting for? What sign where you looking for? Do you want to kill me before you reveal yourself?!!!
(Man is speechless and confused, almost in tears)
(She then turns and sits with a mischievous smile on her face. Lowering her voice, she said softly)
I have waited almost three decades for you, and all along you were next door. I have loved you in advance and missed you even more.
(She holds out her hand).
Now be a gentleman, get down on your knees and put that rock on my finger!!

N.B: (To all single ladies)
Quit looking in all the wrong places, let "the man” find you,it’s
his job!
(To all the single men)
Please come out of hiding, the ladies are waiting, and remember,
it’s very “ungentlemanly” to keep a lady waiting!

THIS IS WISHING YOU BEST OF WHAT GOD HAS IN STUCK FOR YOU THIS NEW MONTH!!!

HAPPY NEW MONTH!