The Wooden Bowl

A touching story on Family, Love, Parents & Relationships

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered.

The family ate together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth.

The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. “We must do something about grandfather,” said the son. I’ve had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor. So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner at the dinner table. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather’s direction, he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone.

Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in silence.

One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” Just as sweetly, the boy responded, “Oh, I am making the bowl for you and mama to eat.” The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.

The words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took grandfather’s hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.

Children are remarkably perceptive. Their eyes ever observe, their ears ever listen, and their minds ever process the messages they absorb. If they see us patiently provide a happy home atmosphere for family members, they will imitate that attitude for the rest of their lives. The wise parent realizes that every day that building blocks are being laid for the child’s future.Let us all be wise builders and role models.

Take care of yourself, and those you love, today, and everyday!, especially your parents, as they are the most precious gifts

TEMPER CONTROL

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag

of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.

Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger,

 the number of nails hammered daily, gradually dwindled down.

 He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

 Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all.

 He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy

 now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father

that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and

 led him to the fence. He said “you have done well, my son,

 but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.

 When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.”

You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter

 how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there.

Make sure you control your temper the next time you are tempted

to say something you will regret later , coz spoken words once out never come back....

TOUCHING STORY

An old man saw a scorpion drowning and decided to pull it out from the water.

He calmly extended his hand to reach the creature.

When he did, the scorpion stung him. With the effect of the pain, the old man let go

 the creature and it fell back into the water. The man realizing that the scorpion was

 drowning again, got back and tried to rescue it but then again it stung him.

 He letgo of it again. A young boy standing by, approached the old man and said,

"excuse me Sir, you are going to hurt yourself trying to save the evil-vicious creature,

why do you insist? Don't you realize that each time you try to help the scorpion, it stings you?"

 The man replied, "the nature of the scorpion is to sting and mine is to help.

 It will not change in helping the scorpion." So the man thought for a while

 and used a leaf from a nearby tree and pulled the scorpion out from the water and saved it's life.

MORAL LESSON: Do not change your nature. If someone hurts

you, just take precautions. Some pursue happiness while others create it.

 Let your conscience be your guide in whatever you do.

NOTE: When life presents you with a thousand reasons to

cry, show it that you have a thousand reasons or more to smile.

More importantly, always be the reason for the smile!

Women read it

A woman goes to Italy to attend a 2-week, company training session. Her husband drives her to the airport and wishes her to have a good trip.

The wife answers: 'Thank you honey, what would you like me to bring for you?'

The husband laughs and says: 'An Italian girl!'

The woman kept quiet and left.

Two weeks later he picks her up in the airport and asks:

'So, honey, how was the trip?'

'Very good, thank you.'

'And, what happened to my present?'

'Which present?' She asked.

'The one I asked for - an Italian girl!!'

'Oh, that' she said 'Well, I did what I could; now we'll have to wait for a few months to see if it is a girl!'

HEART TOUCHING, MUST READ !!Pencil: I'm sorry. Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong. Pencil: I'm sorry, you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself and get smaller and smaller each time. Eraser: That's true, but I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this, Iwas made to help you whenever you do something wrong, even though one day I know I'll be gone. I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying I hate seeing you sad. "Our Parents are like the eraser, whereas we children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way they get hurt and become smaller (older and eventually pass on) ... Take care of your Parents, treat them with kindness and most especially love them." ??

Pencil: I'm sorry.
Eraser: For what? You didn't do
anything wrong.
Pencil: I'm sorry, you get hurt
because of me.
Whenever I made a mistake, you're
always there to erase it. But as you
make my mistakes vanish, you lose
a part of yourself and get smaller
and smaller each time.
Eraser: That's true, but I don't
really mind. You see, I was made to
do this, Iwas made to help you
whenever you do something wrong,
even though one day I know I'll be
gone.
I'm actually happy with my job. So
please, stop worrying I hate seeing
you sad.
"Our Parents are like the eraser,
whereas we children are the pencil.
They're always there for their
children, cleaning up their
mistakes.
Sometimes along the way they get
hurt and become smaller (older
and eventually pass on) ...
Take care of your Parents, treat
them with kindness and most
especially love them." ??

HEART TOUCHING, MUST READ !

Pencil: I'm sorry.
Eraser: For what? You didn't do
anything wrong.
Pencil: I'm sorry, you get hurt
because of me.
Whenever I made a mistake, you're
always there to erase it. But as you
make my mistakes vanish, you lose
a part of yourself and get smaller
and smaller each time.
Eraser: That's true, but I don't
really mind. You see, I was made to
do this, Iwas made to help you
whenever you do something wrong,
even though one day I know I'll be
gone.
I'm actually happy with my job. So
please, stop worrying I hate seeing
you sad.
"Our Parents are like the eraser,
whereas we children are the pencil.
They're always there for their
children, cleaning up their
mistakes.
Sometimes along the way they get
hurt and become smaller (older
and eventually pass on) ...
Take care of your Parents, treat
them with kindness and most
especially love them." ??

ROSE FOR MOTHER (TOUCHING STORY WITH MORAL)

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.”

The man smiled and said, “Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.” He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.

The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

Moral: Life is Short.  Spend much time as you can loving and caring people who love you.  Enjoy each moment with them before it’s too late.  There is nothing important than family

Girls special !!!!

On the first day of their marriage, just to enjoy more... wife and husband decided and agreed not to open the door for anyone! On that day first, husband’s parents came to see them, they were behind the door. Husband and the wife looked at each other, husband wanted to open the door, but since they had an agreement he did not open the door, so his parents left.
After a while the same day , wife’s parents came , wife and the husband looked at each other and even though they had an agreement , wife with tears on her eyes whispered , I can’t do this to my parents , and she opened the door.
Husband did not say anything, years passed and they had 2 boys and the third child was a girl.
The father, planned a very big party for the new born baby girl, and he invited everyone over. Later that night his wife asked him what was the reason for such a big celebration for this baby while we did not do it for the others!
The Husband simply replied,.....
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because she is the one who will open the door for me!
Daughters are always so special !!

SILENCE SPEAKS LOUDER THEN WORDS

Few days back I went to a park nearby… 

I saw a lovely couple sitting on bench,

 A Sweet Girl & and Cute looking Guy…,

 Laughing, Playing with each other,

 Boy was teasing her, Messing with her hair,

 Girl was pinching him on his nose… 

Then girl rests her head on his shoulder just like she’s

 surrenders herself to him, then they moved away by holding each others hand… 

It was a mesmerizing view to watch.. 

Now I know you all are thinking whats SPECIAL in this… 

that’s really normal in Love… 

Isn’t it?? SPECIAL was Both were DEAF & DUMB,

 They cant speak to each other… They cant listen to each other…

 But They can Understand each other more than us… 

We can speak, We can Listen But don’t understand each other… 

Moral: Silence Speaks Louder Then Words…:)...

BANK ACCOUNT

Imagine there is a bank, which credits your account each morning with Rs 86,400, carries

over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening

cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What would

you do? Draw out every pence, of course!

Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is Time.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost,

whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance.

It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the

records of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow."

Therefore, there is never not enough time or too much time. Time management is decided

by us alone and nobody else. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do

things, but the case of whether we want to do it.

Heart Touching Story......

After 37 years of marriage. Jake dumped his wife for his Young secretary.

His new girlfriend demanded that they live in Jake and Edith's multi-million dollar home and since the man's lawyers were a little better he prevailed.

He gave Edith his now ex-wife just 3 days to move out. She spent the 1st day packing her belongings into boxes crates and suitcases.

On the 2nd day she had to movers come and collect her things.

On the 3rd day she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight put on some soft background music and feasted on a pound of shrimp a jar of caviar and a bottle of Chardonnay.

When she had finished she went into each and every room and stuffed half-eaten shrimp shells dipped in caviar into the hollow of all of the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

When the husband returned with his new girlfriend all was bliss for the first few days.

Then slowly the house began to smell. They tried everything cleaning mopping and airing the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents and carpets were cleaned. Air fresheners were hung everywhere.

Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters during which they had to move out for a few days and in the end they even replaced the expensive wool carpeting. NOTHING WORKED.

People stopped coming over to visit. Repairman refused to work in the house.

The Maid quit.

Finally they could not take the stench any longer and decided to move.

A month later even through they had cut their price in half they could not find a buyer for their stinky house.

Word got out and eventually even the local realtors refused to return their calls. Finally they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place.

The ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going. He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back.

Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was he agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house ha been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that very day. She agreed and within the hour his lawyers delivered the paperwork.

A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home.

INCLUDING THE CURTAIN RODS

Heart Touching Story

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water.

She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don't owe me anything," she replied "Mother has taught us never to accept payment for a kindness." He said... "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt; stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Years later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation.

When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her.

He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval.

He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally, she looked, and something caught her attention on the side as she read these words...... " Paid in full with one glass of milk." (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, GOD, that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."

Wonderful Touching Story

A woman baked bread for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra Bread on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away.

Every day, a hunchback came and took away the Bread.

Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way:

" The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the bread and uttered the words:

"The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, com es back to you!"

The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself...

" Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?"

One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the bread she prepared for him!

As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled.

"What is this I am doing?" she said.

Immediately, she threw the Bread into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill.

As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the Bread and muttered the words:

" The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman.

Every day, as the woman placed the Bread on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune.For many months,she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway.

He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak.

As he saw his mother, he said,"Mom, it's a miracle I'm here.

While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed.

I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by.I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole Bread.

As he gave it to me, he said,"This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!"

As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale.

She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned bread that she had made that morning.

Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words:

"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

Moral ♥ : Do good and Don't ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.