What have you done today?

What have you done today?

In 1910 a women by the name of Glades was born, she decided she wanted to be a missionary for the church, so she went on courses and trained in Ireland and India, until she felt she knew where God was leading her. After her training she went to leaders of the church and said I have three penny’s to my name, I’m going to build an orphanage. Well you can imagine what happened next. Now being a holy place I doubt they laughed in her face but I wouldn’t be surprised if they sniggered a bit. The leaders of the church told her that there is no way she could build an orphanage with three penny’s, it costs millions they said.

Her reply was simply, I can’t build a orphanage with three penny’s but God can, Glades then went off to work with the poorest of the poor in Calcutta India for fifty five years, where she eventually did get her Orphanage actually she got quite a few and raised millions for orphaned children worldwide. Before she died Mother Teresa won the Nobel peace prize.

This is just one more example of how one person can make a difference. She refused to listen to the negativity of her peers and persisted in following her dream. Now I’m not saying we are all meant to be saints or we must all stop what we are doing to help the poor or needy.
What I am really aiming at is that Mother Teresa had a goal, she set her sights on something and went for it, and it wasn’t easy it wasn’t fun but it had great rewards in the end.

What have you done today? Have you set a goal? Or are you just waiting for something to happen. Something I have learned over the years is that things don’t just happen; you have to work for them, if you want to be smart I suggest you start learning something, if you want to be a springbok consider not watching TV today and going to the gym.

I don’t claim to have all the answers but what I am sure of is that if you set goals and get off your bum and do something about them, you will achieve, it won’t happen overnight but nothing ever does.


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