God's Embroidery!

[Suchitra]

Om Sairam Everyone!

I like to share this Beautiful story with you all.


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When I was a little boy, my mother used to embroider a great deal. I would sit at her knee and look up from the floor and ask what she was doing.

She informed me that she was embroidering.

I told her that it looked like a mess from where I was, the underside. I watched her work within the boundaries of the little round hoop that she held in her hand.

She would smile at me, look down and gently say, 'My son, you go about your playing for a while, and when I am finished with my embroidering, I will put you on my knee and let you see it from my side.'

I would wonder why she was using some dark threads along with the bright ones and why they seemed so jumbled from my view.

A few minutes would pass and then I would hear Mother's voice say, 'Son, come and sit on my knee.'

This I did, only to be surprised and thrilled to see a beautiful flower or a sunset.

I could not believe it, because from underneath it looked so messy.

Then Mother would say to me, 'My son, from underneath it did look messy and jumbled, but you did not realize that there was a pre-drawn plan on the top.It was a design. I was only following it.

Now look at it from my side and you will see what I was doing.'

Many times through the years I have looked up to my Heavenly Father and said, 'Father, what are You doing?'

He has answered, 'I am embroidering your life.'

I say, 'But it looks like a mess to me. It seems so jumbled.

The threads seem so dark. Why can't they all be bright?'

The Father seems to tell me, 'My child, you go about your business of doing My business, and one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on My knee and you will see the plan from My side.'
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Keep Praying. God is designing our lifes Beautifully. Let us cling to his holy lotus feet.  HE always has beautiful plans for HIS loving children. They are the BEST plans,  nomatter how they appear from our angle!


OmSai SriSai JayaJayaSai!
Jai Sairam


Suchitra

[SS91]

SaiRam Suchitraji

A very nice story and good to read.

Thanks for sharing the same.

Sai bless you always.

Happy new year-2006.

JAISAIRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

subhasrini
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI!!!
Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba who is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him.

[Ramesh Ramnani]

quote:Originally posted by Suchitra

Om Sairam Everyone!

I like to share this Beautiful story with you all.


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When I was a little boy...............The threads seem so dark.

<<The Father seems to tell me, 'My child, you go about your business of doing My business, and one day I will bring you to Heaven and put you on My knee and you will see the plan from My side.'
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Keep Praying. God is designing our lifes Beautifully. Let us cling to his holy lotus feet.  HE always has beautiful plans for HIS loving children. They are the BEST plans,  nomatter how they appear from our angle!>>


OmSai SriSai JayaJayaSai!
Jai Sairam

Suchitra

JAI SAI RAM!!!

Suchitra dear Oh! dear.  What a story.  Just beautiful! You have touched my heart.  This is it!

OM SAI RAM!!!

[OmSaiRamNowOn]

Sai Ram sister Suchitra.

Very nice of you to share with us all such a beautiful message. It makes so much sense. Om Sai Ram.

OM SAI RAM !
OM SAI SRI SAI JAYA JAYA SAI !!

[Shammi]

SAIRAM
This is too good !!
Suchi - Baba s such a  great designer and an architect isn't it
Master planner


SAIRAM


Bow to Sri Sai - Raksha Karo Deva !!!

[Ramesh Ramnani]

JAI SAI RAM!!!

Tragedy of Gratitude :

Remember, this is the great tragedy of gratitude. When you have a problem, it looks so big. When it disappears, it simply does not matter.

The tragedy of gratitude is this: when you have a problem, that is your whole world. When a person cannot sleep the whole night, that is his whole problem -- God is irrelevant, meditation makes no sense, all that he needs is good sleep.

But when you sleep well, do you think you are doing something great? Everybody else is sleeping well -- nobody feels grateful to God. Do you feel grateful to God in the morning when you have slept a good night? You don't feel grateful. When you have good food to eat and a fridge to always depend upon, you don't feel grateful. Just remain hungry for three or four days and you will say, "I am ready to lose everything if I can have a good meal."

If you are lost in a desert and you cannot find water, and somebody gives you just a small cup of water, you will look at him as the saviour. But water was always available to you, and you never even once thanked God: "You have given me so much water." And once you have attained the water you forget all about it; then it doesn't matter.

That's what has been happening in social evolution too. Man has attained many great things but nobody feels grateful. Three thousand years ago there was great slavery in the world; people were being sold like commodities. Even in those days which people think were of golden beauty, of grandeur -- even in Ramarajya in India -- slaves were sold in the markets.

And you may be blissfully unaware that in Ramarajya there was slavery, people were sold in the marketplaces just like cattle. Now nobody is being sold, but do you feel grateful for that? Do you ever think, "How beautiful the world is, there are no more slaves"? No, you don't feel grateful.

That is the tragedy of gratitude. When it is not, when something is not, you feel too much for it. When it is there you forget all about it.
 
People have lived in poverty for millions of ages, and they were always asking and always praying. The Vedas are full of prayers of poor people: "Give more food.

Give more milk to my cow. Yield more crops to my field." For the first time, an affluent society has arisen on the earth. But more and more peoples are miserable country in the world. What has happened? No gratitude? People have forgotten all about it.

India was under slavery for almost one thousand years. And people were boiling -- they were ready to give all that they had to become free. Now they are free, but nobody seems to be grateful that freedom has come. People say, "So what? Yes, we are free -- so what? What has freedom brought to us?"

So this is the tragedy of gratitude.

OM SAI RAM!!!

[Ramesh Ramnani]

Quite a big lesson in this little story

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.  I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the lamb and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house!  There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The lamb sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house!  There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the lamb.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
           
REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON. One of the best things to hold onto in this world, beside God is a friend.

[Dipika]

Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or"Why did God
have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation!

A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is goingwrong. She's
failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best
friend is moving away. Meanwhile her Mother is baking a cake and
asks ifher daughter would like a snack. The daughter
says, "Absolutely Mom; I love
your cake.Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers."Yuck"
says daughter.

"How about a couple raw eggs?" "Gross" Mom!"
"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"
"Mom, those are all yucky!"To which the mother replies: "Yes, all
those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put
together in
the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! God works the
same.Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad
and difficult
times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His
order, theyalways work for good! We just have to trust Him and,
eventually they will
make something wonderful!God is crazy about you. He sends you
flowers everyspring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want
to talk, He'll
listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your
heart.
I hope your day is a "Piece ofCake," my friend.


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Sai baba let your holy lotus feet be our sole refuge.OMSAIRAM

dipika duggal