TUESDAY STORY TO BE SHARED AFTER READING KINGDOM OF WISHES Young king, who has just begun to rule, had a dream about an angel that said him: — I will fulfill one your wish. In the morning the king has called his three advisers: — An angel promised me to fulfill one my wish. I wish that my people would live happily. Tell me, which kingdom do they need? — The kingdom of wishes!.. — one of advisers said immediately. The second and third advisers wanted to say something, too, but did not have time: young king closed eyes and called an angel in his mind. — I wish that the desires of all my people would be fulfilled. Let my kingdom be the Kingdom of wishes… From that moment strange events started to happen in the whole kingdom. Many people became rich, some huts turned into palaces, someone get wings and started to fly; the others became young. People became sure that their wishes are being fulfilled immediately and everyone started to wish more than the other one. But soon they discovered that there was a lack of wishes and began to envy those who still had wishes. Therefore they greedily stole wishes from the neighbors, friends, children … Many people were overcome by the anger and they wished something bad to others. Palaces were collapsing and new palaces were built on their places immediately; someone became a beggar and started to send calamities to others. Someone moaned in pain and then gloated sending more painful sufferings to other people. Peace and harmony disappeared in the Kingdom of wishes. People feuded, sent the arrows of spite and ill will to each other. One man excelled the others in his craftiness: he wished a dangerous disease for himself and tried to infect it other people hugging, kissing them, and shaking their hands. The first adviser immediately dethroned the young king and proclaimed himself a king. But soon he was dethroned by another man, that man was dethroned by someone else and a scramble of thousand ruthless wishes began around the throne. The young king run away from the town and met an old man on the edge of the kingdom. The old man plowed the land and sang a song. — Do you have no wishes? — he asked an old man with surprise. — Surely, I have them... — an old man said. — Why do you not fulfill them immediately, as other people do? — Because I do not want to loose happiness, as all your people did. — But you are poor, and may become rich; you are old, and you may become young! — I am the richest man, — an old man answered. — I plow the land, sow and so build up a pearl path from my Heart to my God ... and Im younger than you, because my soul is like a baby’s. The king said with regret: - If you were my advisor, I would not have made a mistake ... - I am your adviser, whom you did not listen to, - an old man said with no sense of reproach and continued to plow the land. LESSON Dear Congregation, I, Fr Kinyua Charles, am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. I can tell you with certainty that, our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Good people, be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you wont have to hunt for happiness, you wont have to live on wishes and more importantly, be happy when your neighbor is blessed, you could be the next on the line. DID I MINISTER TO SOMEONE?????
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:33:55 +0000
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