A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each tomato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates.
Like this, the number of tomatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate.
On a decided day, the children brought their tomatoes well addressed. Some had two, some had three and some had five, some even had 20 tomatoes in accordance with the number of persons each student hate thus if a student hate 5 persons, he will bring 5 tomatoes.
The teacher told them they have to carry the tomatoes with them everywhere they go for 2 weeks.
As the days passed the children started to complain about the spoiled and smell of the tomatoes. Students who had many tomatoes complained it was very heavy to carry and the smell was to much.
After 1week, the teacher asked the students “How did you feel this one week?”
The Children complained of smell & heavy weight of the tomatoes especially those who carried more tomatoes.
The teacher said, “This is very similar to what you carry in heart when you don’t like some people. Hatred makes heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred everywhere.
If you can’t bear the smell of spoiled tomatoes for a week, imagine the impact on your heart that you carry throughout life.”
The Heart is a beautiful garden that needs regular cleaning of unwanted weeds.
Forgive those who have angered you.
This makes room for storing good things..
Get better not bitter
May the good Lord strengthen us so that we can forgive those who wrong us and take away every hatred we have in our heart. Amen.
Written by Samuel Olaolorun
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