THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Wed - 13.07.11




SUCCESS
Success is speaking
Words of praise
In cheering other people's ways, In doing just the best you can With every task and every plan. It's silence when your
Speech would hurt,
Politeness when your Neighbour's curt.
It's deafness when the
Scandal flows,
And sympathy with
Others' woes.
It's loyalty when duty calls. It's courage when disaster falls. It's found in laughter
And in song
It's in the silent time of prayer In happiness and in despair. In all of life and nothing less We find the thing
We call success.



From A Canopy of Stars: Some Reflections for the Journey by Fr Christopher Gleeson SJ [David Lovell Publishing 2003]