7th May 2025
“Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve;
You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle;
You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve;
You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.”
~Martin Luther King.
A man often bought oranges from an old lady fruit seller.
After they were weighed, paid for and put in his bag, he would always pick one from his bag, peel it, put a segment in his mouth, complain it’s sour and pass on the orange to the seller.
The old lady would put one segment in her mouth and retort, “why, it’s sweet,” but by then he was gone with his bag.
His wife, always with him, asked, “the oranges are always sweet, then why this drama every time?”
He smiled, “the old mother sells sweet oranges but never eats them herself. This way I get her to eat one, without losing her money. That’s all.”
The vegetable seller next to the old lady, saw this everyday.
She chided, “every time this man fusses over your oranges, and I see that you always weigh a few extra for him.
Why do you do that?”
The old lady smiled, “I know he does this to feed me an orange, only he thinks I don’t understand.
I never weigh extra. His love tilts the scale slightly every time.”
Life’s joys are in these sweet little gestures of love and respect for our fellow beings.
And in giving, not usurping.
Today, let’s try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud, let’s give joy & get joy & stay blessed forever.