Anecdote: There is a beautiful,
little story about a long, tedious train journey made, one Christmas day, by
some elderly residents of a nursing home who were on their way to a vacation
spot. At one station, a young mother with a small child entered the train. The child
smiled at all the grim faces around him and began moving from one lap to
another talking, shouting with joy and chatting with everyone. Instantly, the
grim and silent atmosphere in the train was changed to one of joy and
happiness. Today we remember with joy and gratitude, how Mary and her Divine
Son Jesus transformed a hopeless, joyless and sinful world into a place of joy
and happiness.
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A boy asked his father, "Dad, if three frogs were sitting on a limb that hangs over a pool, and one frog decided to jump off into the pool, how many frogs would be left on the limb?"
The dad replied, "Two."
"No," the son replied. “Here is the question again: There are three frogs and one decided to jump, how many are left?"
The dad said, "Oh, I get the point! If one decided to jump, the others would too. So there are none left."
The boy said, "No dad, the answer is three. The frog only DECIDED to jump."
Does that sound like our last year’s resolutions? Great inspiration and great resolutions, but oftentimes we only decide, and months later we are still on the same limb of doing nothing.
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