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It was midnight when the watchman inside the beggars home heard the sound of sobbing outside. He peered through the old rusty gate and found a well-dressed old man lying crumpled. “What is it you want sir?” asked the sentry,
“I want a place to stay!” sobbed the old man.
“This place is for beggars sir. This is a beggars home!”
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Tears of ecstasy rolled down my cheeks as I listened to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and as the choir thundered in German, ‘Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt.
I sang along, ‘Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!’
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"I'm useless! I don't think I'm cut out for anything!"
I nearly choked on my food as I heard this from the lady standing at my side. It was lunch break at a seminar on ‘Purpose and Work’ I was addressing and I'd noticed that even through the supposedly motivational talk I was giving her eyes were listless and dull. "Okay," I said, "ever heard of the woman who ran a creche for children from her home? As she sat with the kids one day a fire engine zoomed by. The kids were thrilled to see a dog on the front seat."
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Give me a sense of humor, Lord;
Give me the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life,
And pass it on to other folk.
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The other day an employee of mine showed me his phone worth a huge amount. “But that’s a costly phone!” I said.
“With my credit card sir!” he said.
And today, that’s what I see; with no money in the wallet but with a piece of plastic in hand more and more are moving from shop to shop and buying more than they can afford.