You Sure Are Lucky by Ken Morris
	It was a hot, muggy August afternoon, and I had every reason to feel sorry for myself. A comedy of hassles began with the normal airport security gauntlet, followed by a random drug test, and a missed flight home due to a number of mechanical, weather and late inbound flight problems. Now my flight home was full and late. During the usual pandemonium at the gate, I noticed a 5-year-old boy standing by his mother and watching me. He looked at me, then my bag, then back at me. Cautiously, he left his mother's side and slowly began to walk toward me, glancing between my bag, his mother, and me. "Great," I thought, "now I have to baby-sit a 5-year-old. My day is now complete." As he came closer, I was both relieved and alarmed that it wasn't me he was after. It was my hat! I started to tell him not to bother my things, but something made me stop and watch. He stopped in front of my bag, looking at my hat, then up at me. With wide eyes, he gently touched the bill of my hat. Running his index finger slowly along the edge, carefully touching the emblem. Again, he looked up at me, now smiling, but saying nothing. I asked him if he would like to wear my captain hat. He excitedly nodded his head, still smiling. I placed my hat on his head, but it fell down around his ears. He didn't seem to mind and held it up in the proper position with both hands. He ran to show his mother, then back to me still smiling from ear to ear. With much reverence and ceremony, he slowly removed my hat with both hands and presented it to me as though it were the crown jewels. I put my hat on and gave him an airplane card. This, too, he held with both hands in awe. After this exchange, he still hadn't spoken, although I knew he was excited. I also was happy that I had been briefly distracted from my self-pity fest. Still holding the card carefully with both hands, he looked up at me and said, "Mister, you sure are lucky." "Yes," I said, "I sure am." I contemplated the wisdom of a 5-year-old, as I got the last seat on that flight home.

One day a poor boy went begging from door to door to feed his hungry stomach.He knocked on a door & a lovely lady opened,instead of asking for food he asked for a glass of water.The woman thought he looked hungry so she brought him a glass of milk,after drinking he said “thank you,i owe you” She replied “you owe nothing,no payment needed for act of kindness” he said “then i thank you from my heart”….. Years later that woman became critically ill that the doctors baffled as they couldn’t cure her,so specialists were called to study the rare illness.Dr Haward Kelly who was called for consultation immediately recognized the woman.He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life & after along struggle, the battle was won.Dr Kelly requested the bill be passed to him for approval,he looked at the huge bill & wrote something on it,then the bill was sent to the lady’s room.The lady feared opening it as she knew the bill could take a life time to pay off.When she eventually opened it,she noticed something written on the edge of the note “PAID FOR IN FULL FOR A GLASS OF MILK”. Tears filled her as she immediately remembered the rugged dirty skinny boy who knocked on her door . My dear friends,family &my loved ones always remember that every act of kindness you sow doesn’t bounce back,it reproduces itself,not necessarily before your eyes but it always does even to your next generation. “THE HEART YOU SAVE TODAY CAN BE YOURS TOMORROW THROUGH KINDNESS.WHAT WILL YOU BE REMEMBERED FOR WHEN YOU LEAVE THIS EARTH?”

Good News

Good news or bad news? It depends on how you see things. You can be bitter after being cheated. Or you can choose to move on with your life…

Robert De Vincenzo, the great Argentine golfer, once won a tournament and, after receiving the check and smiling for the cameras, he went to the clubhouse and prepared to leave. Some time later, he walked alone to his car in the parking lot and was approached by a young woman.

She congratulated him on his victory and then told him that her child was seriously ill and near death. She did not know how she could pay the doctor’s bills and hospital expenses.

De Vincenzo was touched by her story, and he took out a pen and endorsed his winning check for payment to the woman. "Make some good days for the baby," he said as he pressed the check into her hand.

The next week he was having lunch in a country club when a Professional Golf Association official came to his table. "Some of the boys in the parking lot last week told me you met a young woman there after you won that tournament." De Vincenzo nodded. "Well," said the official, "I have news for you. She’s a phony. She has no sick baby. She’s not even married. She fleeced you, my friend."

"You mean there is no baby who is dying?" said De Vincenzo.

"That’s right," said the official.

"That’s the best good news I’ve heard all week." De Vincenzo said.

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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Ziggy

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

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