Friday, April 26, 2013

Honesty and Integrity are part of a believer's being.


Honesty and Integrity are part of a  believer's  being.
AND THE LORD WILL SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM THE TARES.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013, 10:20 AM


Subject: Fw: Take a minute - READ AND RETURN



excellent email!!!!


READ  ALL THE  WAY THROUGH AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL  AND IF YOU  DECIDE PLEASE
RETURN LIKE IT  STATES.

Interesting and very  thoughtful message for all to read.                              
                                   This is  special

   

A   successful businessman was growing old  and
knew it was time to choose a successor to  take over the business.


Instead  of choosing one of his Directors or his  children, he decided to do something  different.  He called all the young  executives in his company  together.


He said, "It is time for me  to step down and choose the next CEO. I have  decided to choose one of you. "The young  executives were Shocked, but the boss continued.  "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today  - one very special SEED.  I want you to  plant the seed, water it, and come back here one  year from today with what you have grown from  the seed I have given you. 
I will  then judge the plants that you bring, and the  one 
I choose will be the next  CEO."


One man, named Jim, was  there that day and he, like the others, received  a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his  wife the story  She helped him get a pot,  soil and compost and he planted the seed.   Every day, he would water it and watch to see if  it had grown.  After about three weeks,  some of the other executives began to talk about  their seeds and the plants that were beginning  to grow.


Jim kept checking his seed,  but nothing ever grew


Three weeks,  four weeks, five weeks went by,  still 
nothing.


By now,  others were talking about their plants,
but  Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a  failure.


Six months went by --  still nothing in Jim's pot.  He just knew  he had killed his seed.  Everyone else had  trees and tall plants, but he had nothing
Jim  didn't say anything to his colleagues, however,  he just kept  watering and fertilizing the  soil - He so wanted the seed to  grow.


A year finally went by and all  the young executives of the  company
brought their plants to the CEO  for inspection.


Jim told his wife  that he wasn't going to take an empty  pot.
But she asked him to be honest  about what happened.  Jim felt  sick  to his
stomach, it was going to be the  most embarrassing moment of his life,  but  he knew his wife was right.  He took his  empty pot to the boardroom.

When  Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of  plants grown by the other executives.  They  were beautiful - in all shapes and sizes   Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of  his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry  for  him!


When the CEO arrived,  he surveyed the room and greeted his young  executives.


Jim  just  tried to hide in the back. "My, what great  plants,  trees and flowers you have grown,"  said the CEO. "Today one of you will be  appointed the next CEO!"


All of a  sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the  room with his empty pot. He ordered the  Financial Director to  bring him to the  front.  Jim was terrified.. He thought,  "The  CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he  will have me  fired!"


When  Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had  happened to his seed,Jim told him the  story.

The  CEO asked  everyone to sit down except Jim.  He looked  at Jim, and then announced to the young  executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive  Officer!

His name is "Jim!"  Jim  couldn't believe it.  Jim couldn't even  grow his seed.

"How could he be  the new CEO?" the others said.

Then  the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave  everyone in this room a seed.  I told you  to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring  it back to me today.  But I gave you all  boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not  possible for them to grow.

All of  you, except Jim, have brought me trees and  plants and flowers.  When you found that  the seed would not grow, you substituted another  seed for the one I gave you.  Jim was  the  only one with the courage and honesty  to bring me a pot with my seed in it.   Therefore, he is the one who will be the  new Chief Executive  Officer!"


*  If you plant  honesty, you will reap  trust 
*  If you plant  goodness, you will reap friends
*  If  you plant humility, you will reap   greatness
*  If you plant  perseverance, you will reap  contentment
*  If you plant  consideration, you will reap  perspective
*  If you plant hard  work, you will reap   success
*  If you plant  forgiveness, you will reap  reconciliation

So,  be  careful what you plant now;it will determine  what you will reap  later. Think about this for a  minute.

If I  happened to show up on your door step crying,would you care?
If I called you and asked you  to pick me up because  something  happened, would you come?
If I had one day  left to live my life, would you be part of that  last day?
If I needed a shoulder to cry on,  would you give me yours?
This is a test  to see who your real
friends are or if you  are just someone to talk to you when they are  bored.

Do you know what the  relationship is between your two  eyes?

They blink  together,    
they  move together,
they cry  together,    
they  see things together, 
and they  sleep together,
but  they never see each  other;   
that's what  friendship  is.    
Your  aspiration is your motivation,  your     
motivation  is your belief  ,    
your belief  is your  peace,    
your  peace is your  target,    
your  target is heaven,
and life is like hard  core
torture without  it!


It's  'World Best  Friends Week'

Who is your best  friend?


Send this to all your  good friends,
even me, if I am one of  them.




See  how many you get back.


If you  get more than 3 then you really are a lovable  person.
Save the Earth.   It's the only planet with   chocolate!



 

  
 








 
  




 

   
  

 

 

 



 
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  ~ Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. ~


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