Any person needs change. We used to have one of our relatives daughter, Rebecca, in our house for a while. She likes to stay with us, but certainly she wanted to go to her village back after one or two weeks stay with us, and again after she had been to her village she likes to come back to us. That is the little world of Rebecca, where she can enjoy the change on and off.
People need change and for that change they opt for any sort of life within the reach. They demolish the houses and build the houses in the same site, or go in purchase of new houses, or construct new houses in new places. They sell their cars and buy new brands, or change the color of the car or the house at given time. They sell the furniture and again buy the furniture for the sake of beautification of the house or for better comfort.
So is with the attire, hardly we come across with a person who do not like the change. But there are people who stick to the old fashioned life and style without any change in their behaviour or life. Even after 10 or 20 years of your visit to their home the same old furniture would be there laying , decaying or with dust, the same rags of clothes laying in bundles in their boxes, the same old blouses and vessels every where laying with dents and dirt on them.
They never go for a new thing, even if they go the old thing cannot be taken away from their style of life.
Some people just cannot stay with the same people or same surroundings more than an year. But some people live with the same known places all through their lives,even at the brink of stress and shame.
These are two catargory people, some talk big words about health, cleanliness, and religion, But once you see their personal life there is no discipline in none of the areas of life. All that they expertise would be in only area which is necessary in life , and without which they have no identification in life.
Life is different from the practice, and words we utter. There is much ado over nothing . people feel that they are very important , but when you visit a new place new homes you are nothing there. No body would heed your word, even your wise words will be taken to make fun of. Though you know where you are respected and cozy and comfortable, you cannot stay in that place all through your life knowing very well you do not have hold in other places.
In the name of responsibility or better life, or relaxation, or for better chances, to better yourself, you seek to go to new places , only to be disappointed again and again.
You can create your own world of comfort wherever you are. with the available resources within reach. you cannot achieve more than what you all ready achieved or able to achieve in the place you are accustomed. Sometimes we move to different places to satisfy our own ego, to tell people that we are wanted by some body else , and we need to fulfill some more responsibilities, or show the world that we have accessibility to new ventures. All is futile and vain.
Nothing is true in this world, The saviour is there allways wherever you are, unless you go and travel whole world like the st. Paul there is no meaning in your voyages, or desire for change.
We also think that we will be used in different places by God, no, no, its a myth, If God wants to use you He can use you where you are, right in your place, But what about the missionaries who travelled to one end of the world to another end . why those people became prey to the cannibals in the jungles when they wanted to preach them. They can sit at home and been used by God at home, certainly. But why all this confustion. Some people are called to travel like Paul, and some people are expected to stay back wherever they are and serve the people.
Called by God to visit new places? certainly not to the better places than yours, certainly not. people going from India to England and America and settle there on the plea the country needed your work is all trash. Do not believe such people. They want to have better comforts than in India. If they are called by God they must go to a lesser places and lesser people. The missionaries in those countries are enough to revive those places. Like Hudson Taylor go to china where life bitter, not comfort zone. Like William Carey go to slums of India, from a better country of your origin. Like Livingston go to Africa where you do not have minimum comforts of life. That is the real call, going to America and getting better education for your children and grand children on pretext of preaching to that country and visiting India now and then like a political campaign is only feign walk of religion.
God is available even India, you can be a witness even there, do not cheat your self that you can be useful only in foreign country, But in case you are in that country on a job basis, well and good to serve God where you are posted, but telling people God called you to go and settle in better country is only cheating others and cheating your self and God.
Change and change whare this change about? is this for better or for worse ? why the change? for self? or for others?
How the change takes place by fair means or by trampling others?
when this changes occurs in your ripe time of youth or at the autumn of age?
Answers to these questions give the real perception of life and guide you in better way
,Helen Keller is a world renowned deaf-blind who wrote many articles and books. Although she became blind at nineteen months old and deaf soon after, she led a very active life for more than eighty years. At the age of seventy-three, when most people are retired, Helen started working on a new book "Teacher" which was published two years later. Helen continued to live to a ripe old age of 88 when she died in 1968.
People need change and for that change they opt for any sort of life within the reach. They demolish the houses and build the houses in the same site, or go in purchase of new houses, or construct new houses in new places. They sell their cars and buy new brands, or change the color of the car or the house at given time. They sell the furniture and again buy the furniture for the sake of beautification of the house or for better comfort.
So is with the attire, hardly we come across with a person who do not like the change. But there are people who stick to the old fashioned life and style without any change in their behaviour or life. Even after 10 or 20 years of your visit to their home the same old furniture would be there laying , decaying or with dust, the same rags of clothes laying in bundles in their boxes, the same old blouses and vessels every where laying with dents and dirt on them.
They never go for a new thing, even if they go the old thing cannot be taken away from their style of life.
Some people just cannot stay with the same people or same surroundings more than an year. But some people live with the same known places all through their lives,even at the brink of stress and shame.
These are two catargory people, some talk big words about health, cleanliness, and religion, But once you see their personal life there is no discipline in none of the areas of life. All that they expertise would be in only area which is necessary in life , and without which they have no identification in life.
Life is different from the practice, and words we utter. There is much ado over nothing . people feel that they are very important , but when you visit a new place new homes you are nothing there. No body would heed your word, even your wise words will be taken to make fun of. Though you know where you are respected and cozy and comfortable, you cannot stay in that place all through your life knowing very well you do not have hold in other places.
In the name of responsibility or better life, or relaxation, or for better chances, to better yourself, you seek to go to new places , only to be disappointed again and again.
You can create your own world of comfort wherever you are. with the available resources within reach. you cannot achieve more than what you all ready achieved or able to achieve in the place you are accustomed. Sometimes we move to different places to satisfy our own ego, to tell people that we are wanted by some body else , and we need to fulfill some more responsibilities, or show the world that we have accessibility to new ventures. All is futile and vain.
Nothing is true in this world, The saviour is there allways wherever you are, unless you go and travel whole world like the st. Paul there is no meaning in your voyages, or desire for change.
We also think that we will be used in different places by God, no, no, its a myth, If God wants to use you He can use you where you are, right in your place, But what about the missionaries who travelled to one end of the world to another end . why those people became prey to the cannibals in the jungles when they wanted to preach them. They can sit at home and been used by God at home, certainly. But why all this confustion. Some people are called to travel like Paul, and some people are expected to stay back wherever they are and serve the people.
Called by God to visit new places? certainly not to the better places than yours, certainly not. people going from India to England and America and settle there on the plea the country needed your work is all trash. Do not believe such people. They want to have better comforts than in India. If they are called by God they must go to a lesser places and lesser people. The missionaries in those countries are enough to revive those places. Like Hudson Taylor go to china where life bitter, not comfort zone. Like William Carey go to slums of India, from a better country of your origin. Like Livingston go to Africa where you do not have minimum comforts of life. That is the real call, going to America and getting better education for your children and grand children on pretext of preaching to that country and visiting India now and then like a political campaign is only feign walk of religion.
God is available even India, you can be a witness even there, do not cheat your self that you can be useful only in foreign country, But in case you are in that country on a job basis, well and good to serve God where you are posted, but telling people God called you to go and settle in better country is only cheating others and cheating your self and God.
Change and change whare this change about? is this for better or for worse ? why the change? for self? or for others?
How the change takes place by fair means or by trampling others?
when this changes occurs in your ripe time of youth or at the autumn of age?
Answers to these questions give the real perception of life and guide you in better way
,Helen Keller is a world renowned deaf-blind who wrote many articles and books. Although she became blind at nineteen months old and deaf soon after, she led a very active life for more than eighty years. At the age of seventy-three, when most people are retired, Helen started working on a new book "Teacher" which was published two years later. Helen continued to live to a ripe old age of 88 when she died in 1968.
George Burns (1896-1996) famous comedian once said, "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I ‘m working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you are working you stay young. "
For fifty-three years of a tireless ministry, John Wesley called himself "a man of one book" the Bible. He wrote over 200 books, edited a magazine, completed dictionaries in four languages - all in his own handwriting. He crisscrossed England on a horseback for a total of some 250,000 miles. For years he averaged twenty miles a day. He preached 40,000 sermons and rarely less than two a day and often seven, eight or even more. At the age of eighty three, he was still writing books and sermons for fifteen hours a day. At age eihty-six, he was still preaching twice a day.
Corrie ten Boom , a Dutch evangelist, started to travel around the world to preach the message of God's love through Christ in her sixties. She continued her worldwide evangelistic activities until her eighties. For years, she traveled alone, preaching the Gospel of Christ in Cuba,America, Germany, South Africa, Japan, Bermuda, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, England, Denmark, Taiwan, Israel, India, Korea, Argentina,Eastern Europe, Russia.
When she was not in Holland, her travels took her to places for anyone to believeWhen she was not in Holland, her travels took her to places for anyone to believe. Who could believe that this old lady was in the midst of Civil Wars in Africa? Who could believe that she was so close to the fighting in Vietnam where she hears bullets snicking and whizzing through the foliage? But there she was in Vietnam crawling creakily out of jeep to deliver the Gospel to a bewildered soldier.
Corrie lived until her ninety-first birthday, Her old age years are much productive than her earlier years.
Here is a list of some more achievers in their old age:
- Miguel Cevantes wrote Don Quixote when he was almost seventy years old.
- John Milton wrote Paradise Regained when he was sixty-three.
- Noah Webster wrote his monumental dictionary at age seventy.
- Benjamin Franklin helped to frame the US Constitution at age eighty-one
- Alfred Tennyson published the memorable poem Crossing The Bar at age
Eighty three.
- Michelangelo was in his late eighties when he painted some of his Masterpieces.
- Galileo made his greatest discovery when he was seventy-three.
- Thomas Edison still worked in his laboratory at eighty-three.
- Arturo Toscanini conducted an orchestra at eighty -seven.
- Mark Twain wrote "Eve's Diary" and "The $30,000 Bequest" at seventy-one.
- Titian painted his great work "The Battle of Lepanto" at age ninety-five
and his "Last Supper" at age ninety-nine.
You are never too old to still achieve in this life as
C. S. Lewis quotes :
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ."
It all depends upon your attitude and perspective in life. You can choose to bloom at whatever age you may be. As along as you have the zeal for life and belief in your purposes and pursuits as Amos Bronson Alcott says :
"While one finds company in himself and in his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years maybe."
yes that should be the aim of change, change for better, not for the sake of change alone. .
There is perishable change and profitable change.
