The Dark Candle

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Posted by: " * Vinay * " vinayspandey vinayspandey

Sat May 31, 2008 6:09 pm (PDT)

 

A Story with Moral - Worth Reading - The Dark Candle

 

A man had a little daughter-an only and much-beloved child. He lived

for her ~ she was his life. So when she became ill and her illness

resisted the efforts of the best obtainable physicians, he became like

a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her

restoration to health.

 

His best efforts proved unavailing and the child died. The father was

totally irreconcilable. He became a bitter recluse, shutting himself

away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might

restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night

he had a dream. He was in Heaven, and was witnessing a grand pageant

of all the little child angels. They were marching in an apparently

endless line past the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic

tot carried a candle. He noticed that one child's candle was not

lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own

little girl. Rushing to her, while the pageant faltered, he seized her

in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked: " How is it,

darling that your candle alone is unlighted? " " Father, they often

relight it, but your tears always put it out. "

 

Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear, and

its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse,

but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and

associates. No longer would his little darling's candle be

extinguished by his useless tears.