Thursday, September 21, 2017

SABRINA
 One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. After handing out the tests face down, he asked everyone to turn it over. To the student's surprise, there was simply a black dot in the middle of the paper. The professor then asked them to write about what they saw. Each of them, with no exception, described the black dot, its position, size, etc... At the end of the allotted time, the professor took the papers up and read them to the class. What followed is food for thought. Not one student wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot. The same happens in our lives each and every day. Our life is a gift given by God - it’s the white paper, but we always focus on the dark spots. Nature renews itself every day, our friends, our families, the job that provides our livelihood, the miracles that we see every day if only we look. Yet, we insist on focusing on the dark spots - what is wrong in our lives? Yet, the dark spots tend to be so very small compared to everything that God has given us. So for this morning, find a sheet of paper, make a dark spot in the center, and focus on all of the white page surrounding the spot, and let's lift a prayer of thankfulness for our many blessings!