God took the fragrance of a flower, the majesty of a tree, the gentleness of morning dew, the calm of a quite sea, the beauty of the twilight hour, the soul of a starry night, the laughter of the ripping brook, the grace of a bird in flight, the tender care of an angel, the patience of eternity, the depth of a family's need, then God fashioned from these things a creation like no other, and when His masterpiece was through he called it simply; Mother.
A businessman was returning home on horseback from the annual fair in a nearby city. He had quite a big sum of money with him. It was raining heavily and the poor man was wet to the skin. He was in a bad mood and grumbled that God had given him such terrible weather for his journey. He entered a thick forest. All of a sudden, to his horror, he found himself face to face with a bandit whose finger was already on the trigger of his gun. He would not have been saved from death, except for the fact that the rain had caused the powder to dampen and the gun was useless. The businessman spurred his horse and happily escaped the danger. When he was out of danger he said to himself: “How stupid I was to moan about the bad weather, instead of accepting it patiently as a gift of God. If there had been a clear sky and the air dry and limpid, I would now be lying in a ditch covered in blood and in vain would my children wait my arrival. The rain which I was ready ...
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