My grandad told a beautiful story at my sister's wedding.
It was a story about a man who's wife had leporacy. She was sent away from the village to an island where people with leporacy were excited. The man went with her on the boat, when the boat's driver turned round to leave after dropping off the wife the husband went to jump off the boat to join her. The driver ask 'why would you go to the island? You will catch leporacy and die and be burred in an unmarked grave.' the man turned to the driver and said 'some things are more important than life itself.' and with that he jumped off the boat to join his wife.
I love this lesson from my grandad to remember what's really important in life.
I also remember talking to my grandad talking about talents. He said if a friend asked him what he was talented at he'd probably say 'well I'm quite good at football'. But he then went on to tell me that the talents that really matter, and the ones God wants us to develop most are the ones that bring people to Him. Yes it's nice to be talented at worldly things but not everybody is. What really matters is that we become talented at serving others and being kind to people.
I'm going to miss my grandad and his wisdom.
My grandad told a beautiful story at my sister's wedding.
It was a story about a man who's wife had leporacy. She was sent away from the village to an island where people with leporacy were excited. The man went with her on the boat, when the boat's driver turned round to leave after dropping off the wife the husband went to jump off the boat to join her. The driver ask 'why would you go to the island? You will catch leporacy and die and be burred in an unmarked grave.' the man turned to the driver and said 'some things are more important than life itself.' and with that he jumped off the boat to join his wife.
I love this lesson from my grandad to remember what's really important in life.
I also remember talking to my grandad talking about talents. He said if a friend asked him what he was talented at he'd probably say 'well I'm quite good at football'. But he then went on to tell me that the talents that really matter, and the ones God wants us to develop most are the ones that bring people to Him. Yes it's nice to be talented at worldly things but not everybody is. What really matters is that we become talented at serving others and being kind to people.
I'm going to miss my grandad and his wisdom.
