It’s been a hard day of trekking for me in Ephesus, Turkey, but what I’ve learnt I don’t think I could have picked up from any encyclopedia or Google search. Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tournaments. People constantly said to him, “I’d…
Busy?
Spent an evening at the club, with a gentleman who knew one of India’s billionaires when he was coming up, “I knew him when he was struggling,” he said, “And I helped him a bit!” “You must be great friends now!” I said. “I suppose we are!” he said loyally,…
Stop Being A Crab..!
Quite often we are likened to crabs who pull each other down whenever one tries to escape from the box it is being held captive in. In 1936, American Jesse Owens seemed sure to win the long-jump competition at the Olympic games. The previous year he had jumped 26 feet,…
God and Our Operational Expenses..!
“Oh, Father, how nice of you to come home,” said the little old lady, as she ushered the priest in. “I was hoping that somebody would visit my house today. I have made some nice fresh cakes!” “Ah,” said the priest, “that does sound tempting. Doesn’t it?” “Oops,” said the…
Your Parachute Packers..!
Many, many decades ago while my grandmother’s knee I was told a story of how her son, my uncle an air force pilot found his plane was on fire, “He jumped out!” whispered my grandmother, “and angels brought him safely down to earth!” It was much later I learnt it…
Identify Your Baggage..!
Have you seen somebody carrying a load of baggage, no not a passenger at a railway station or airport, but someone with a guilty past, failure, lack of confidence, someone who doesn’t know that all he’s got to do is throw that baggage away and he or she is free!…
Slacken Your Bow..!
Something I hear very often is the word, ‘stress’. According to a Greek legend, in ancient Athens a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and jeered at Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in such frivolous activity. Aesop responded…
Cancer and the Dancer..!
Very often I have people telling me of their problems. Most are genuine, some terrible and then I remember Tej. She was a dancer and one of the happiest people I’d ever met in my life. There was not a moment when she was not spreading her infectious joy and…
They Don’t Know Why They Do It.!
He was the former president of a local rotary club, and I wondered at his sad face, “What happened?” I asked, concerned. “I got a call from the incoming president, he told me not to come for his installation!” said the former president. “It was I who introduced him to…
His Ways Are Strange..!
Prayer is answered in the strangest of ways, I’ve found, here’s an experience of a lady who saw answered prayer in God’s strange way of doing so: A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left her…
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.