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A happy ending starts with a happy beginning — and can there ever be a better time to begin than right now?

Lonely Ember Story
(Author Unknown)

A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor’s visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a big chair near the fireplace and waited. The pastor made himself comfortable but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the play of the flames around the burning logs. 

After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone. Then he sat back in his chair, still silent. The host watched all this in quiet fascination. As the one lone ember’s flame diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and "dead as a doornail." Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. 

Just before the pastor was ready to leave, he picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.  As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said, "Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be back in church next Sunday." <http://www.inspiredinside.com>

Probably the stress lately…but there’s been much tot recently…whatever happens at the end of the day we still goto face it…Sometimes when life throws adversity at us…we often find ourselves asking…could it have been better..why would things turn out this wae we ask ourselves…sometimes we burry ourselves with work…sometimes we get bz…all juz to avoid confronting our greatest fears….But how long can we avoid it…..
Just when i tot i could get over it…the world started crashing…i begin to realise that to survive in this complex world…I will have to be dependent yet independent at the same time…Just like the lonely ember…We can only glow for so long alone…we each goto find our blanket of light and warmth to keep us glowing…im still searching..have u found urs??

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2 Responses to “A happy ending starts with a happy beginning — and can there ever be a better time to begin than right now?”

  1. Jac Says:
    June 11th, 2005 at 3:01 am

    still searching too. aren’t we all?
    :)

  2. Janie Says:
    June 14th, 2005 at 12:22 pm

    yeah i guess life’s a jounrey where we goto keep discovering ourselves…itd neva really end till the dae we r.i.p..well for some lucky pple out there they prob found their blanket and light and treasure it if u have =P

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