Revisiting The Story of a Good Man on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Holidays to All whose encouragement, support and help have made our life so fulfilling. Thank You for your kindness, care and love through the years. 

In light of the current world enviornment and state of our country (and ongoing World Cup Soccer), we decided to revisit an old thanksgiving reflection from the year 2007. 

Point to Ponder: "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision, the ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational (Team,Family, Nation) objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon things."- Andrew Carnegie

Story Line: But if you sometimes have trouble having compassion for the people you work with, consider the story of the good man who died and, because he had done a few things wrong, was required to spend a short time in hell.

While he was there, he found that one main torture was that everyone was forced to try to eat with spoons that were longer than their arms. The food kept dropping over their shoulders. The condemned were in constant torment for hunger in the midst of good food they couldn’t eat. Then the man was transferred to heaven.

To his surprise, he found that they had the same spoons there but they never went hungry because they fed each other.

Reflection: What kind of world do we want going forward? What changes do we need to make? Please spend sometime to ponder and initiate actions.

Note: After 17 years, Friday Reflections took a pause because of major changes in our lifestyle. They are resuming now and only time they will not publish is when we don't have access to Networks. Thanks to so many readers who sent us note saying how much they missed them.

Comments

[MT-India]

Very relevant in today’s cut throat competition to outdo one another at any cost.

[sujat]

Lovely story of using the spoons. Timeless relevance!

A hole in the boat, even if at the far end, still remains everybody's response-ability.

[Carol]

Good parable. Happy Thanksgiving!

[humble warrior]

Love to see them back! Happy Thanks giving!

[EastCoast]

Today, a staff writer for The NY Times tried to imply Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation was simply a thank you for victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. I doubt the woman has even read the Proclamation because if she had, she would instantly understand his basic theme was “Thanks be to God for his mercy and all that he has provided.” Too many just don’t get it or don’t want to admit it (that there is a God).

Enjoy the day and your Thanksgiving.

[Cousin from Maryland]

Nice thanksgiving story. Thank you. Glad the new reflections will begin soon. New reflections from new experiences from your travels