Friday, January 06, 2006
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!
Author Unknown
Jan 6, 2006
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while
trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming
from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There,
mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and
struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what
could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced
himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming saved. "I want to
repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer
replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son
came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good
education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to be a
man you can be proud of."
And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St.
Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He went on to become known
throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who
discovered penicillin.
Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What
saved him? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you don't
need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like
nobody's watching. "God writes straight in crooked lines," and
the crooked lines might be the best Christmas present you will ever
get.
PRAYER
"Lord, fill me with your love and increase my thirst for holiness.
Cleanse my heart of every evil thought and desire and help me to act
kindly and justly and to speak charitably with my neighbor."
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