I know many of you would be thinkin how can a "Sermon" be beautiful since most of us dozed off on our parent's lap when we were kids and then when we grew up we used to poke each other with the elbow and to show the other who was sleeping and giggle around...Yes those were the good old days..
But at a Christmas mass a couple of years ago, the priest shared a beautiful story which has really inspired me so thought of sharing.
"There was once a King who was always at the extreme end of emotions. When he was happy he was very happy and when sad, he was very sad. So the king thought to himself that could there be something that can keep him neutral all the time, niether very sad nor very happy.
So he called a meeting of his trusted members of the council of ministers in his kingdom and declared that anyone who brings a "thing" which made him not feel too happy or sad, he would be richly rewarded by the King. And so the ministers set out in search of that special thing. They went all around the world, went to the rich and the poor but could not find that special thing which they were looking for.
Dejected he was, a minister gave a last attempt and saw a poor goldsmith working in a shop.He asked him if he could make something for the king who would in return reward him for his deeds. So the poor man went inside the shop and moulded a ring and gave it to the minister. As soon as the King saw the ring he at once called the goldsmith to his palace and rewarded him for he had pleased the king with the "ring" that he had moulded. The other ministers were dazzled at the gesture of the King and inquired as to what the goldsmith had made since they thought it was just a mere ring. But the king said to them, that this isn't an ordinary ring. And read to them the words which the goldsmith had inscribed on the ring.
It read, "This too shall pass away.."
Many a times we are either too happy or too sad in our own worlds. When we are happy we think of the fact that its our own achivement and that nothing will go wrong from now on and at times when we are sad, we are so dejected that we forget to tell ourselves that, "This too shall pass away.."
But at a Christmas mass a couple of years ago, the priest shared a beautiful story which has really inspired me so thought of sharing.
"There was once a King who was always at the extreme end of emotions. When he was happy he was very happy and when sad, he was very sad. So the king thought to himself that could there be something that can keep him neutral all the time, niether very sad nor very happy.
So he called a meeting of his trusted members of the council of ministers in his kingdom and declared that anyone who brings a "thing" which made him not feel too happy or sad, he would be richly rewarded by the King. And so the ministers set out in search of that special thing. They went all around the world, went to the rich and the poor but could not find that special thing which they were looking for.
Dejected he was, a minister gave a last attempt and saw a poor goldsmith working in a shop.He asked him if he could make something for the king who would in return reward him for his deeds. So the poor man went inside the shop and moulded a ring and gave it to the minister. As soon as the King saw the ring he at once called the goldsmith to his palace and rewarded him for he had pleased the king with the "ring" that he had moulded. The other ministers were dazzled at the gesture of the King and inquired as to what the goldsmith had made since they thought it was just a mere ring. But the king said to them, that this isn't an ordinary ring. And read to them the words which the goldsmith had inscribed on the ring.
It read, "This too shall pass away.."
Many a times we are either too happy or too sad in our own worlds. When we are happy we think of the fact that its our own achivement and that nothing will go wrong from now on and at times when we are sad, we are so dejected that we forget to tell ourselves that, "This too shall pass away.."
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