You're Like A Pencil
Did you know that you are like a pencil?
Here's how:
1. Like a pencil, you can correct your mistakes.
You can't change the past, but you can rectify it.
And though you can't erase history, you can erase
guilt and anger with forgiveness.
2. Like a pencil, painful sharpening can serve to
make you better. Your difficult times can actually
sharpen your skills or shape you into the person
you were meant to be.
3. Like a pencil, you can do great things when you
allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand.
4. Like a pencil, you can leave your mark whenever
possible. That is what you're here for -- to leave your
mark. It may be in small ways, it may be in the lives
of people you have touched or nurtured, but you must
leave something good behind whenever you can.
5. Like a pencil, it is what is on the inside that matters.
Whether it is understanding or intolerance, love or
bitterness, peace or unrest, kindness or self-
centeredness, hope or despair, courage or fear,
what is on the inside matters most.
Next time you use a pencil, pause and think about
that little writing tool. It teaches some great lessons
about living.
