HOW HEAVY IS A GLASS OF WATER?

[Ramona P. Jacobsz]

How heavy is a glass of water . . .

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it."

"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on." "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can." "Relax; pick them up later after you've rested. Life is yours. Enjoy it!

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can't push.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour


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Ramona P.

[Andree]

In the end it is all down to our attitudes and it is a choice. A glass can be half empty to a person and half full to another. The Choice is ours. We can leave our stress and problem behind or we can carry them whereever we go. I use to do that look at a glass a say it is half empty but over the years with God's help it changed my perception, so now when problems and tribulations come I do not carry them around anymore I take them to God before I get myself all tied up in a knot or at least that's what I try to do. Again the choice is ours do we want to be happy or miserable after all the joy of the Lord is ours no matter what.

[Ramona P. Jacobsz]

Truly we have a choice... and this can be made positively if we look up to Jesus and follow in His footsteps... Each day when I wake up I praise Him for the first breath ... one more day to live and worship our Almighty God and Father... My "glass" runneth over!


God bless you and may the joy of the Lord truly be yours...
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Ramona P.