“ A big banquet was prepared in Jesus honour after lazarus
resurrection...“ Then Mary took a Jar of
costly perfume.....and anointed Jesus feet with it and wiped them with her
hair.” John 12 1:7. A big banquet with
all its preparations and expenses became totally insignificant. Wiping with the
costly oil – a small incident before the banquet is mentioned as the most
significant action. What makes an action very significant ? A real life lesson taught by Jesus .... see more at www.kallelivilayil.blogspot.com wait for tomorrow...
Anointing with oil was commented by Judas as ‘waste of money’
and even the disciples around would also have thought in the same way except
Jesus. Jesus felt the gravity of that
action and the depth of love. Many times what we think as unimportant as an
onlooker becomes very important in the eyes of receiver. Like Judas without
doing anything, we may even criticise
the people who do whatever they could do it. The least thing as it may look in
the eyes of others becomes the most value able to the receiver who understands
your heart. It is possible only when you are in other person’s shoes and your
heart resonates with the same frequency of the receiver.
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I understood this when I was doing the audit of one organisation
in Chennai. Where 2800 people were
working. In the closing meeting, The management representative of the
organisation said, implementation of the system in the organisation was one of
the most difficult thing he experienced and it was difficult to convince the
people about the system, till I made difference to their routine work through the
system. He then went on to narrate a story of Star fish.....explain this..
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Two people were walking on the beach in the early morning. They
could see a person sitting on the beach at a distance and doing something. As
they approached they found this man picking up the star fishes and throwing it
back to sea. The star fish looses its direction when there is change in
gravitational pull. Here the star fishes climbed on to the bank and when sun
rises all will die.This man picking one by one and throwing it to sea. The
people asked why are you wasting your
time and there are millions of star
fishes in the sea.He picked one star fish and said this action looks very insignificant in your eyes
and but it very very significant in the eyes of star fish.
When your action makes a difference to the other person’s life,
however small it may be in the eyes of other person, it could be very very significant
to the receiver. Because you make a difference to other person’s life only when
you can understand other person completely. Even you may think I am not able
to give a bigger or right kind of help but if you do what maximum you can
understanding him or her completely, the receiver [GOD] values it much more than what u think.
Doing big is not important, but doing what is needed by
receiver makes the difference.
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