I Wish You Enough

An Inspirational Short Story

Inspirational encouraging story about enough joy sorrow

Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the Father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.’ The daughter replied, ‘Dad, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.’ They kissed and the daughter left.
 
The Father walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?” .”I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is – the next trip back will be for my funeral,” he said. “When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?’” He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. “When we said, ‘I wish you enough, we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.” Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory…
 
“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
 
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
 
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
 
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
 
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
 
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
 
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final goodbye.”
 


The essence of the story is also to simply enjoy what you have and be thankful for that. The story tells us to wish people enough. When we wish enough for someone, we pray that they learn to appreciate things for what they are. There are always two sides to the same thing as there are two sides to a coin.
 
If we don’t appreciate one part, how can we appreciate the whole thing? The story teaches us to live in the moment and, laugh and live like there is no tomorrow. We often don’t say what we want to say or we don’t do what we really want to do, thinking there is more life or time.
 
We keep procrastinating and leave everything for the future. One should always remember that our time on this earth is limited and every little thing is precious. We are lucky to have this life in which we can do so many things, make so many memories, and experience so many valuable moments.
 
Taking a lesson from Bob’s story, we should be cautious of what we share with our loved ones and what we wish them. Every moment with people we love is precious, make sure you make the most of it. Time flies and people leave before we even realize so don’t wait for the time when it’s already late. Tell people how much they mean to you or how much you love them. Wish them enough of everything so that they understand the value of things. Sometimes people take things for granted. They don’t realize how lucky they are to have received things that they have.
 
Thus, Bob suggests in his story that you should wish just enough good things for people. He even suggests wishing enough loss so that we appreciate what we have. You should wish enough pain for your loved ones so that they appreciate small joy. It may look like a harsh thing to say to your loved ones but just enough of anything only ensures your loved one values precious things in life.


There are many versions of this story available online. However, the point of each of these versions remains the same and the overall message is the same. The story is about wishing for just enough of everything for ourselves and others so that we would learn to value those things in life. The story is from “Chicken Soup For The Grieving Soul”.





If Tomorrow Never Comes

A Poem About Not Having Any Regrets

 
If I knew it would be the last time
That I’d see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in tighter
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
 
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
 
If I knew it would be the last time
I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would video tape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
 
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute or two
to stop and say love you,
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
well I’m sure you’ll have so many more
so I can let just this one slip away.
 
For surely there’s always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything right.
There will always be another day
to say our, “I love you’s,”
 
And certainly there’s another chance
to say our. “Anything I can do’s?”
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I’d like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget.
 
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance
you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you’re waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
 
For if tomorrow never comes,
you’ll surely regret the day,
That you didn’t take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.
 
So always hold them dear.
Take time to say I’m sorry, Please forgive
me, Thank you, or It’s okay.
And if tomorrow never comes,
you’ll have no regrets about today.
     — author unknown
 





Calvinism Versus Arminianism Tables And Charts

Showing The Differences Between The Free-Will View of Salvation and the Election/Predestination View

 
The following charts and tables identify and describe the differences between the five points of Calvinism and the five points of Arminianism. Some of the charts also show variations of those views. These differences were first hammered out at the Synod of Dort held in Dordrecht Holland in 1618–1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a controversy brought about by the spread of the doctrines of Arminianism, which had been promoted by Jacobus Arminius. — RM Kane
 
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Free-Will, Election And Predestination Graphics Posters

Including Calvinism And Arminianism Quotes And Scriptures

Highlighting God’s Sovereignty In The Salvation Of Sinners

While Pointing Own Mankind’s Total Inability To Save Himself

 
This webpage was created to share some very concise statements about the truth of God’s sovereignty in salvation, often referred to as election and predestination. If you have ears to hear, you will have to agree that the scriptures referred to in the following images make an airtight case for what are referred to as the Doctrines of Grace. Those who attack those doctrines by labeling them as Calvinism with the intent to insinuate that they are unbiblical doctrines manufactured by John Calvin really need to reevaluate their thinking and hopefully the images below will help them to do that. As the prophet Jonah said: “Salvation is of the Lord” and that means, from start to finish! To God ALONE be the glory! Can I get an amen? — RM Kane
 
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
 
A large number of these graphics were produced by Michael Jeshurun (as noted in those particular images). Michael’s website (blog) can be found at: michaeljeshurun.wordpress.com
 





Can We Blame God For The Evil In The World?

Can We Blame God For The Evil In The World

Introduction:

 
Isn’t God the one who gave us life, knowing what we would do with that life? Doesn’t God know what He causes and causes what He knows? Can we be blamed for the evil in the world if God is all powerful and all knowing? Let’s now take a look at what Gordon H. Clark said about these issues in his book titled “Omniscience, God and Evil“.
 

Omniscience, God and Evil:”

 
Not only does free will fail to relieve God of culpability, and permission fail to coexist with omnipotence, but the Arminian position can find no logical position for omniscience either. A Romanist-Arminian illustration is that of an observer on a high cliff. On the road below, to the observer’s left, a car is being driven west. To the observer’s right a car is coming south. He can see and know that there will be a collision at the intersection immediately beneath him. But his foreknowledge, so the argument runs, does not cause the accident. Similarly, God is supposed to know the future without causing it. The similarity, however, is deceptive on several points. A human observer cannot really know that a collision will occur. Though it is unlikely, it is possible for both cars to have blowouts before reaching the intersection and swerve apart. It is also possible that the observer has misjudged the speeds, in which case one car could slow down and the other accelerate, so that they would not collide. The human observer, therefore, does not have infallible foreknowledge. No such mistakes can be assumed for God. The human observer may make a probable guess that the accident will occur, and this guess does not make the accident unavoidable; but if God knows, there is no possibility of avoiding the accident. A hundred years before the drivers were born, there was no possibility of avoiding the accident. There was no possibility that either one of them could have chosen to stay home that day, to have driven a different route, to have driven a different time, to have driven a different speed. They could not have chosen otherwise than as they did. This means either that they had no free will or that God did not know.
 

“Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” Acts 15:18

 
Suppose it be granted, just for the moment, that divine foreknowledge, like human guesses, does not cause the foreknown event. Even so, if there is foreknowledge, in contrast with fallible guesses, free will is impossible. If man has free will, and things can be different, God cannot be omniscient. Some Arminians have admitted this and have denied omniscience, but this puts them obviously at odds with Biblical Christianity. There is also another difficulty. If the Arminian or Romanist wishes to retain divine omniscience and at the same time assert that foreknowledge has no causal efficacy, he is put to it to explain how the collision was made certain a hundred years, an eternity, before the drivers were born. If God did not arrange the universe this way, who did?
 
If God did not arrange it this way, then there must be an independent factor in the universe. And if there is such, one consequence and perhaps two follow. First, the doctrine of creation must be abandoned. A creation ex nihilo would be completely in God’s control. Independent forces cannot be created forces, and created forces cannot be independent. Then, second, if the universe is not God’s creation, his knowledge of it – past and future – cannot depend on what he intends to do, but on his observation of how it works. In such a case, how could we be sure that God’s observations are accurate? How could we be sure that these independent forces will not later show an unsuspected twist that will falsify God’s predictions? And, finally, on this view God’s knowledge would be empirical, rather than an integral part of his essence, and thus he would be a dependent knower. These objections are insurmountable. We can consistently believe in creation, omnipotence, omniscience, and the divine decree. But we cannot retain sanity and combine any one of these with free will.
 

Additional Information On Free Will, God’s Foreknowledge & Open Theism: