Why a Disabled Child..!
It was many years ago that I landed at the hospital where my wife practiced, to meet the mother of a baby who had been born with a physical deformity. The mother was not there but the grandmother was. “Why?” she sobbed, “did God do this to my daughter. Hasn’t…
Call Discouragement a Liar..!
There were tears in her eyes when I entered the room many years ago. I knew she had been on the phone and I wondered who had made her cry. “Dad,” she asked, “am I a failure?” “Are you?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she said, her eyes brimming with…
Throw Your Potatoes Away..!
Have we ever realized what a stench we raise when we carry grudges and bitterness around? A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato would be given…
Let Go of Your Wooden Apples..!
I wonder what your wooden apples are. Before you begin to wonder what I’m talking about, do read this story: There once was a happy monkey wandering the jungle, eating delicious fruit when hungry, and resting when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl…
Stick it Out..!
Don’t give up! There are many of us, bruised, bloodied and battered, who want to quit the race, quit their business, or just raise their hands in surrender. Don’t! Just stick it out! Finish your race! This happened at the Mexico City Olympics Stadium. Over an hour earlier, Mamo Waldi…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.