Aboy was watching his grandmother writing a letter. Suddenly, he asked: "Are you writing about something that happened to us? Is it about me?"
The woman stopped and said to the boy: "I am writing about you, indeed. But you know, this pencil I'm using is more important than the words. I'd love you to be like it when you grow up."
The boy looked at the pencil but he didn't see anything special about it. "It's just like any old pencil I've seen before!"
"It all depends on the way you look at things. It's got five qualities like you, and if you can keep them for yourself, you will always be a person who makes a difference.
Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press to hide it from the Midianites, part of the oppressive routine he and his people had been enduring for seven years. His heart was so eaten away that when the angel of the Lord appeared to him, he couldn't help but burst out in anger against that situation.
To be a widow in Bible times was not easy. In fact, to be a woman in those days was not easy – let alone a widow. Widows were defenseless, commonly poor, and were liable to be oppressed by those in power. There were no special welfare or social security programs to look after them. If you were a widow, you were on your own. You might as well have died with your husband.
All of us are capable of dreaming and fighting for our dreams to come true. Depending on a dreamer’s strength, his dreams will become reality; but, the truth is, only a few are strong enough to destroy the killer of dreams, for he works sneakily so that the dreamer will not even notice his presence.
