LITTLE THINGS

 

                LITTLE  THINGS

            The  main question in life is how to spend one’ time usefully. Most of the people aspire to do such activities as enhance their wealth. They work for money and more money. They are selfish. If some needy person seeks their help, they do not accept his request. They mind their own business. However,   some of them do love God, worship Him, go to places of prayer and offer gratitude, but these very people do not spare any time for social service.

            In a poem, a character tells an angel who is writing the names of those who love God and when he is asked by a person who was watching him whether his name was also there in the  book which he had completed.  The answer given to him is “No”.  Not disappointed, he requests that very angel to write his name as one who loved the people of God. The angel fulfils his request and when he comes again the next day his book shows that whose name was not there the previous day was now at the top.

            In an anonymous which is given below, the poet prays to God:

            “Give give me love, and care, and strength

            To help my toiling brother.        

 

 The toiling brother here is not his own real brother but any  other man who is there in the world looking for help.

 

                        Here is the full text of the aforesaid anonymous poem. Its title is Little Things but its message is great,

 

                        If any little word of mine

                        May make a life the brighter,

                        If any little song of mine

                        May make a heart the lighter,

                        God help me speak the little word

                        And take my bit of singing,

                        And drop it in some lonely vale

                        To set the echoes ringing.

                       

                        If any little love of mine

                         May make a life the sweeter,

                        If any little care of mine

                        May make a friend’s the fleeter

                        If any little lift may ease

                        The  burden of another.

                        God give me love, and care, and strength

                        To  help my toiling brother.

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G.R.Kanwal

12  July 2026