Happy, Happy Day!

My daughter sent this to me via e-mail so rather than just forward it (I will do this too), I decided to share it here as well as this is such an inspiring story.  I was planning on something else, but this is way too cool to pass up sharing with you today.  This is VERY close to my heart as my brother was a person just like Shay.

Two Choices

What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line,
there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the
same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled
children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would
never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and
its dedicated staff, he offered a question: ‘When not interfered with by
outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet
my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot
understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of
things in my son?’

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. ‘I believe, that when a child like Shay, physically
and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize
true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people
treat that child.’

Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were
playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ Shay’s
father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on
their team, but the father also understood th at if his son were allowed
to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some
confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

Shay’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not
expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance
and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning.
I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the
ninth innin g.’

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a
team shirt. His father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in
his heart. The boys saw the father’s joy at his son being accepted. In
the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was
still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a
glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he
was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning
from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom
of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again. Now, with two outs and the
bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was
scheduled to be next at bat.

At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win
the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit
was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat
properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that
the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life,
moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least
make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly
towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow
ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and
could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have
been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the firs t baseman’s head,
out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams
started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first! Run to first!’ Never in his life
had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered
down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’ Catching his breath,
Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to
the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder
had the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first
chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the
second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so
he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the
third-baseman’s head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the
runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay!’

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by
turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third!
Shay, run to third!’

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were
on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’ Shay ran to home,
stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam
and won the game for his team.

‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face,
‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity
into this world’.

Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never
forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home
and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes
through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending
messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and
often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about
decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

If you’re thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you’re
probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t the
‘appropriate’ ones to receive this type of message. Well, the person who
sent you this believes that we all can make a difference. We all have
thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the ‘natural
order of things.’ So many seemingly trivial interactions between two
people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love
and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a
little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats the least
fortunate amongst them.

You now have two choices:
1. Delete
2. Forward

May your day be a Shay Day!

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Today’s post is not an original.  It is taken directly from Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”.  This is one of my favorite books next to the Holy Bible.  It contains many universal laws put in layman’s terms so we all can understand just how to work with those laws.  Bob Proctor of the “Secret” also studies from this book and uses much of it in his courses.  I encourage you to get a hold of this book and study it for yourself.  You can download it at no cost at Bob’s Six Munites to Success.  This excerpt is so well written, I thought it best to give it to straight from his own book, without any “intrepratation” from me.

FAITH IS A STATE OF MIND THAT MAY BE INDUCED BY AUTO-SUGGESTION

All down the ages, religionists have admonished struggling humanity to “have faith” in this, that, and other dogma or creed, but they have failed to tell people HOW to have faith.  Thay have not stated that “faith is a state of mind, and that it may be induced by self suggestion.”

In a language that any normal human being can understand, we will describe all that is known about the principle through which FAITH may be developed where it does not already exist.

Have faith in yourself;  Faith in the Infinite.

Before you begin, you should be reminded again that FAITH is the “eternal elixir”, which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought.”  The foregoing sentence is worth reading a second time, and a third, and a fourth.  It is worth reading aloud!

FAITH is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.

FAITH is the basis of all “miracles” and all mysteries which can not be analyzed by the rules of science.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE.

FAITH is the element, the “chemical”, which when mixed with prayer gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

FAITH is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

EVERY ONE OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS IS CAPABLE OF PROOF.  …

It is a well known fact that one comes. finally, to BELIEVE in whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether it be true or false.  If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth.  Moreover, he will BELIEVE it to be truth.  Every man is what he is, is because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.  Thoughts which a man places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act and deed.

Comes now a very significant statement of TRUTH:

THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMOTIONS, CONSTITUTES A “MAGNETIC” FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED THOUGHTS.  A thought thus “magnetized” with emotion may be compared to a seed which grows and multiplies itself over and over again, until that which was originally one small seed becomes countless millions of seeds of the SAME BRAND.

Now back to my own thoughts;

Can you get the idea of just how powerful your thoughts and words are?  What you think about (in your heart or subconscious) is who you are.  Out of that, comes your words, which are a creative force in itself.  You must take EVERY thought captive to the TRUTH…get rid of those that are not!

Do you remember that first spark of hope you felt when you watched The Secret? I clearly remember the desire that filled my heart, knowing that – Yes, I can make my dreams come true – This rings true in my spirit.

But how many of you soon saw that hope dwindle into frustration? How many of you (and be honest now) started muttering things like:
- “It seems to work for other people, but I just can’t get it right.” I know I did!

- “I’m frustrated that sometimes I can get it to work, but sometimes I can’t. What’s the trick?”

- “Why am I having so much trouble?”

- “I’m trying very, VERY hard but still nothing is happening!”

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. About 97% of people also couldn’t make the Law of Attraction work for them the first time round. Think about it, just like anything else, you have to practice many times before you see success. A child doesn’t learn to walk without falling over a couple of times, right?

But in practice, everything is easier said than done. When you’re frustrated, it’s hard to stay positive. And it’s especially harder to stay positive when the evidence all around you is screams negativity like the unstable economy or watching “big wigs” take advantage of regular folks like us with their ponzi schemes.

And do you know what happens when you fail to stay positive? That’s right – you start attracting negative things in to your life.

So how can you make the Law of Attraction work for you – without getting frustrated? How do those who successfully implement the Law of Attraction do it with such confidence and finesse?

Well, here’s three quick tips so you will never feel frustrated or tired of begging from the universe, because you know how to start manifesting like a pro.

1. Allow Yourself To Receive

Just like a lost child who approaches a police officer and asks, “Excuse me Sir, can you tell me how to go to the post office? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?” Well, if the child goes on and on asking, the police officer can’t even give an answer, right?

Well, it’s the same thing with your mind. If the only thing your mind is doing is transmit, transmit, transmit, the universe — which is trying to respond — can’t give you a single thing because you’re not allowing yourself to receive!

So, have the confidence in yourself and stop exhausting yourself by running around person to person begging for riches, and then wondering why nobody is dropping a penny in your cup (Hint: It’s because you’re running away too fast for them before they can even reach for their wallets).

Just think of your desires and leave it out there, go away, and trust that your cup will be filled with gold coins (or whatever it is you asked for) when the time is right. I think the timing is what we have the most problems with. We deal in the finite whereas the universe deals in the timeless eternal.

2. Be Patient With Yourself – Receiving takes time.

Sadly, many people give up just a couple of steps before the finish line because they’ve decided that if it’s not working by now, it’s never going to work at all. Worse still are those who throw in more and more energy because they think that with more resources, the results will come faster.

This is like expecting 9 mothers to conceive and deliver a baby in 1 month. You also can’t bake cookies in half the time by doubling the temperature. You’ll incinerate those cookies to ashes!

In simple terms: Everything in this world has a natural development time, and this fact will not change no matter what resources you throw at it.

So relax and be patient. Remember that you too, as part of the universe, are also governed by the laws of the universe, and you cannot change the natural development time.

If you remember this, you will less likely work yourself up into frustration, or worse, push yourself into a downward spiral of negativity.

3. Support and Educate Yourself

Like the child who is learning how to walk, you need support. You also need to guidance on how to do it, and also the role models to look up to.

Many people give up because they think that “The Secret” is the “be all and end all” solution. Well, it’s NOT. “The Secret” is just a small portion. It was never intended, and has never been, the whole answer.

Coming to the conclusion that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work when all you ever did to educate yourself was watch “The Secret” 19 times (without looking at changing the habits of other areas of your life) is like coming to the conclusion that exercising is not an effective way to lose weight because all you did is run on the treadmill for 2 hours a day (but you’re still stuffing yourself with fried foods and cheesecakes).

So seek and be hungry for new knowledge. Also, make an effort to be amongst people or communities where you can support each other, learn from each other and also share new knowledge that you have found.

While the Law of Attraction is not an overnight delivery service, it will indeed deliver, if you do your part too! If you don’t know what your part is, look into the 11 Forgotten Laws so you can get a bigger picture and see the rest of the parts and how they beautifully fit together.

Check out the site here – go to http://www.the11forgottenlaws.com/?p=1107

Blessings and Prosperity,
Dale Lovett

Bob Proctors, 11 Forgotten Laws Course