Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Perspective: A wonderful holiday thought


Another year has passed.

A monumental year. A year of change on numerous levels personally, professionally and on the world wide stage. Superior has moved to a beautiful new national headquarters, heavily invested in the infrastructure to make our products and services unique to our clients, and proudly watched the personal and professional growth of many of our employees


In turning my attention to family; friends and good cheer this holiday season - I feel compelled to share this tale sent to me by one of my wiser friends, Tommy Oliver.



this powerful story pretty much sums up the reason for the season to me and hopefully will to you too......


One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, 'How was the trip?'
'It was great, Dad.'
'Did you see how poor people live?' the father asked.
'Oh yeah,' said the son.
'So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?' asked the father.

The son answered: 'I saw that we have one dog and they had four.
We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.
We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.
Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.
We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.
We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.
We buy our food, but they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.'

The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, 'Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.'

Isn't perspective a wonderful thing?
Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks to God for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.

Appreciate everything you have, especially your friends, your family and your health. Give some hugs, sit back and enjoy all that is yours. Vow to let go of the stress and embrace the positive in 2010. Help someone less fortunate. Live.

Life is too short and good friends are too few.


God Bless you in 2010 and Happy Holidays!

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