One spring sometime before the civil war and over 150years ago, a young and handsome man, named James was employed by a rich American farmer, Worthy Taylor, in his prosperous Ohio farm to work on his farm and also assist him in other household chores.
The farmer knew nothing much about the boy, except that his name was James, but he gave him a job. James spent the winter cutting stove wood, bring in the cows and making himself generally useful. He ate in the kitchen and slept in the hay loft
Before the summer was over, James had fallen in love with Taylor's daughter. Though the master liked the boy and his work, he was compelled to dispense with his services, because James had fallen in irredeemably in love with his beautiful daughter.
The farmer hated and abhorred the idea of his daughter marrying a mere farm hand coupled with the fact that he had no money, no name and very poor prospects.
Thirty five years passed before Taylor day pulled down his farm stead to make way for a new one on the rafters above the haylort, he discovered his former farm help had carved his full name. His name?James. A.Garfield. He was the then president of the United states of America (USA).
James Garfield eventually became the 20th president of the US. A man who was thought to be a nonentity and unworthy of a rich man's daughter eventually became the most powerful man on earth. Taylor lost the opportunity of becoming the father-in-law the US president, but more sympathetically, he made his daughter lose forever the opportunity of ever becoming the first Lady of the US.
Benjamin Disraeli said:"The greatest good you can do to others is not just to show your riches, but to reveal to them their own ".It's savage madness to think you can increase your stature by making others feel smaller. Don't define people by where they are;you never know where God is taking them.
In one day, God can change your story. You are not finished when men finish with you,you are ONLY finished when God finishes with you. If God has not written you off, no man can write you off........To maintain a healthy self image, there are three things that be vehemently resisted in life-don't ever look down on yourself, don't ever allow anyone to look down on you and don't ever look down on anyone. We must believe totally that we carry within us a special form of "Currency"that cannot be devalued.
Don't ever write any man off, Don't ever look down on people's struggle.
Don't conclude on a man who God is writing his story.
Culled from The Guardian, 8/12/2018.
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