Spring of Hope

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions  A leader in a seminar on leadership showed a demonstration. He took a wide-mouth jar and filled it with rocks and asked the audience “Is the jar full?”. “Yes,” came a reply. Then he poured smaller pebbles into the jar to fill the spaces between the rocks. “Is it full now?” “Yes,” said someone else. “Oh, really?” He then filled the remaining spaces with sand and shook the jar to fill the spaces. “Is it full now?” he asked. “Probably not,” said another, to the amusement of the audience. Then he took a pitcher of water and poured it into the jar. “What’s the lesson we learn from this?” he asked. An eager participant spoke up, “No matter how full the jar is, there’s always room for more.” “Not quite,” said the leader. “The lesson is: in order to get everything in the jar, you must always put the big things in first.” Martha and Mary were sisters who sincerely welcomed Jesus to their h...

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions  "Who would despise the day of small things?”, wrote the prophet Zachariah over 2500 years ago (Chapter 4:10). The influence of small things may not be noticeable, but can be powerful. According to Harvard business Review, small is the "new big" in businesses ( The Power of small Wins ). It is getting noticed in the business world that the power of small decisions that are smartly made, can set big things in motion. Seemingly insignificant people or decisions can have significant influence. Nano-engineering is the science that deals with tiny things measured in billionths of a metre which can produce powerful things. Nano technology is used to make unique composite material with properties which would provide long lasting and high mechanical strength to relatively light materials. Such material is used instead of stainless steel, in nuclear reactors, automobile manufact...