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One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.  He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk; He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?" "You don’t owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from my heart."  As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was also strong.  He had been ready to give up and quit.
 
Year’s later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room. Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the case. After a long struggle, the battle was  won.
 
Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words….. "Paid in full with one glass of milk" (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.
 
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank you, God, that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands."

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow…He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by… the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day.

One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad.  "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I don’t play around trees anymore." The boy replied, "I want toys. I need money to buy them."  "Sorry, but I don’t have money…  but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money."

 The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad. One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. "Come and play with me" the tree said. "I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?"  "Sorry, but I don’t have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house." So the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily.

 The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.  One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said.  "I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?"  "Use my trunk to build your boat.  You can sail far away and be happy."  So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat.  He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.

 Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. "Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for you any more. "No more apples for you… "The tree said.”I don’t have teeth to bite" the boy replied.

 "No more trunk for you to climb on"

"I am too old for that now" the boy said.

 "I really can’t give you anything … the only thing left is my dying roots" the tree said with tears.  "I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years." The boy replied.

"Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come sit down with me and rest."  The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears…….

 This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad…When we grown up, we leave them… only come to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy. You may think the boy is cruel to the tree but that’s how all of us are treating our parent. Please enlighten all your friends boyfriend, girlfriend, lovers and/or families by forward this mail to them. And love your parent.

 

5 Reasons Why You Should Start Drinking Green Tea Now

by www.FineGreenTea. com

Green tea has increasingly become a very popular drink worldwide because of its immensely powerful health benefits. It is extraordinarily amazing what green tea can do for your health. And if you’re not drinking 3 to 4 cups of green tea today, you’re definitely NOT doing your health a big favor. Here Are The 25 Reasons Why You Should Start Drinking Green Tea Right Now:

1. Green Tea and Cancer

Green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- cancer.html

2. Green Tea and Heart Disease

Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- and-heart- disease.html

3. Green Tea and Anti-Aging

Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals. What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.

4. Green Tea and Weight Loss Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- weight-loss. html

5. Green Tea and Skin

Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- skin.html

6. Green Tea and Arthritis

Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- and-arthritis. html

7. Green Tea and Bones

The very key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea. It helps keep your bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.

8. Green Tea and Cholesterol

Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol level. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- and-cholesterol. html

9. Green Tea and Obesity

Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you’ll be obese.

10. Green Tea and Diabetes

Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ diabetes- and-green- tea.html

11. Green Tea and Alzheimer’s

Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there’s no cure for Alzheimer’s, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer’s.

12. Green Tea and Parkinson’s

Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson’s. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson’s.

13. Green Tea and Liver

Disease Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- liver.html

14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure

Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- and-high- blood-pressure. html

15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning

Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Green Tea and Blood

Sugar Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

17. Green Tea and Immunity

Polyphenols and flavenoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

18. Green Tea and Cold and Flu

Green tea prevents you from getting a cold or flu. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.

19. Green Tea and Asthma

Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

20. Green Tea and Ear Infection

Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.

21. Green Tea and Herpes

Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

22. Green Tea and Tooth Decay

Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath. http://www.finegree nte a.com/green- tea-tooth- decay.html

23. Green Tea and Stress

L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.

24. Green Tea and Allergies

EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- allergy.html

25. Green Tea and HIV

Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that green tea can help stop the HIV virus from spreading. http://www.finegree ntea.com/ green-tea- hiv.html

Now, your health is in your hands. You know you’re smart. So, start drinking three to four cups of green tea every day for a drug-free and healthier YOU!

“If there is no struggle there is no progress”

An orthopedic surgeon will tell you that a broken bone, if healed properly, is stronger that the original bone.

Did it ever occur to you that without rocks and pebbles in stream there would be no music of running water? It’s the obstacle in the path of water that causes the babbling brook.

If a stream is to be made useful and serviceable, what is the first thing to be done? The hidden power of the water much be released. Immediately an obstacle must be in its path – a dam must be built.  That water is them backed up and given depth.  Now the strength of its flow generates power.  As a result factories can be operated and goods produced.  The water now has begun to provide useful service.  But remember, could have become useful in this manner without the obstacle in path?

You and I must form the habit of accepting discouragement and hardship as only greater opportunities.  Just as there is no physical on earth strong enough to hold moving stream, there is no obstacle strong enough and powerful enough to hold back the stream of life.  It the sand didn’t irritate the oyster, there would be no pearl.

One, data an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students, and to drive home a point he used and illustration to those students that they will never forget.

As he stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers, he said, “Okay, time for quiz.” He then pulled out a one-gallon wide-mouth mason jar and set it on the table in front of him.  Then, he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one by one, into the jar.

When, the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said “YES” then he said “Really?”

He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel.  Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work them down into the space between the big rocks.  Then he asked the group once more. “Is this jar full?” By this time the class was on to him.  “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he replied.

He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand.  He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel.  One again he asked the question.  Is this jar full?” “NO” the class shouted. Once again, He said Good!

Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim.  Then the expert in time-management looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?” one eager beaver raised his hand and said” The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things in it.”

“No,” the speaker replied, “That’s not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is this:  If you don’t put big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all.” What are the big rocks in your life? Your children, your spouse, you loved ones. Your friendship. You education. Your dreams. A worthy cause.  Teaching or mentoring others. Doing things that you love. Time for yourself.  Your health. Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first, or you’ll never get them in at all.

If you sweat the little stuff(i.e., gravel, the sand) then you’ll fill your life with little things you worry about that don’t really matter, and you’ll never have the real quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff (the big rocks)

What about you? Asked your self: What are the “big rocks” in my life?

Her mother took her to the kitchen.  She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.  Soon the pots came to boil.  In the first she placed CARROT, in the second she placed EGGS, and in the last she placed GROUND COFFEE BEANS.  She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.  In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners.  She fished the carrots out and place them in a bowl.  She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.  Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see"

"CARROT, EGG and COFFEE", she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to fee the carrots.  She did and noticed that they are soft.  The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it.  After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.  Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee.

 The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.  The daughter the asked, "What does it mean, mother?"  Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity… boiling water and each reacted differently. 

The CARROT went in strong, hard and unrelenting.  However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softens and became weak. The EGG had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting thought the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The COFFEE BEANS were unique, however after they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.

“Which are you?” She asked her daughter “when adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

THINK OF THIS: which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wild and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart but the changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trials have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain.  When the water gets hot it releases the fragrance and flavor.  If you are like the bean, when the things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, egg or coffee bean?

Count you blessing, no your problem…. Putting others first makes relationship last.

Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cup (porcelain, plastic, glass, come plain looking and some expensive and exquisite) telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. 

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "if you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.  While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problem and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other’s cups."