It was Christmas time; four year-old Shelly asked his mother if he could get an iPad as Christmas gift. The mother told him to write a letter to Baby Jesus.
So he took a sheet of paper and wrote: "Dear Jesus, I have been a good boy always, please send me an iPad for Christmas." Then he read it and said to himself, "That is not true."
He tore that up and took another sheet and wrote: "Dear Jesus, I have been a good boy sometimes, please send me an iPad for Christmas." But he knew that too was not true.
He ripped that sheet of paper too and wrote again on another, "Dear Jesus, I will be a good boy." When he read that, he did not feel comfortable. So he tore up that paper, too.
Then he went for a walk in the neighborhood. He came to a church where there was the nativity scene displayed. He took the statue of mother Mary and hid it inside his overcoat and returned home. He went up straight to his room and hid the statue under the bed.
Then he took a sheet of paper and wrote, "Dear Jesus, if you want to see your mother again .. ! "
Thought for reflection
We know what we are.
Indeed, we are good at times….and bad too some times.
We all wish and want to become good. But fail time and again.
The reason of our failure is “we are not content”.
“Because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.”
Galatians 6:8
“Human Beings are Good, Better and the Best at times. Yep, only at times!”
Antony Pal
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