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The Book of Parables
The book of parables | The approach of learning principles | By: Vusi Mxolisi Zitha
Chapter 1 | The parable of a dishonest friend
Un-forgiveness
The power of wisdom
The garbage boy and the restless rich man
Chapter 2 | The parable of a stingy woman
Faith in little things
Chapter 3 | Hell and eternal life
Lustful desires and regrets
Chapter 4 | The parable of a farmer, his workers and his son
The richest man in the community
Chapter 5 | Beyond the makeup of a beautiful lady.
Freed by money, imprisoned by arrogance
Chapter 6 | The cleaner and the store manager
Chapter 7 | The parental sacrifice
The wayward son and his master
Chapter 8 | Wisdom towards riches
The cornerstone
The reality of living
Chapter 9 | The reward of boastfulness
Revenge is a dangerous motive
The master's return
Chapter 10 | Time for everything
Success
Anger
Chapter 11 | The smile of betrayal
The stubborn grasshopper
Doubt and fear are the greatest enemies of victory
The pride man
Chapter 12 | Jealousy
For the glory of God
Life is never predictable
Life without Christ
The road to hell
Faith
Actions before facts
Grudges and vengeance
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The book of parables
The book of parables
The approach of learning principles
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By: Vusi Mxolisi Zitha
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dedication
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To
All mankind.
PREFACE
IN THIS BOOK, THE AUTHOR uses short fictitious story that is presented to teach, illustrates one or more instructive lessons or life principles.
INTRODUCTION
Parables are used in most conditions to illustrate a particular lesson. They are approach towards learning moralities about the essence of life.
Chapter 1
The parable of a dishonest friend
Once; there was a man who was firmly attached to a certain woman in terms of friendship.
A loyal man he was and indeed a man of honesty and integrity. As her own kind of challenge; the woman lured him into trusting her by glittering her face with innocence and a marvelous smile decorating her face.
They both participated in the friendship but with different individual effort. Noticing how nice and humble the man is: she decided to confess "wow I've never met someone like you before, you so cool and down to earth.... in fact ...like.....i don’t know hey. She then decided to take advantage of the situation and started to make demands.
She could always ask favors from the guy like; "can you please buy me this and that", "can you please lend me some money” and all what a woman could ever ask from a man.
The man could hardly say no to her demands, he was obedient enough to meet them all. It came to pass that one day the man was in need of a favor:
She asked the woman and said "can you please meet me at the park so we can catch up I’m bored" she gladly accepted the offer and promised to meet him at the agreed time.
After waiting for so long, the man decided to make a call; she then answered " shame a-skies i forgot, i was busy with something else and it just slipped my mind I’m sorry" the man answered" worry not my dear; as long as you remain a teacher i will be a good student to you" not knowing what he meant, she smiled and said ncoooo... thank you.
Another day came; as they were working together, the man called “Zihle! I’m without a lunchbox today can you please dish up for two"?
She said "alright then no problem" Zinhle could not go to him during lunch on that day, she defended herself by saying her friends were all over her that she couldn't even had a space to breathe and promised to make it up to him as she asked for an apology.
The man looked at her with a soft smile and said “don’t worry about it, as long as you remain a teacher; i will be a good student to you and he left.
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After a while they both agreed to meet at zinhle's place for a chill out the next day, the man waited on her call on that day till it was late.
He then decided to call her, likely she picked but sadly she wasn't available for the guy, she was booked for another chill out elsewhere.
She answered "I’m sorry i couldn't be there for you but i will make it up to you i promise" The guy simple said “never worry yourself Zeee, remember; as long as you remain a teacher i will be a good student to you.
It then came to pass when the woman was in need again of the man's help for certain issues, but he was becoming distant as far as zinhle is concerned. It got her worried when she asked him to pay her a visit concerning a situation she was going through, but he was never available.
After sometime she asked him to meet with her to enquire about what transpired between them.
The man said “remember when i told you that as long as you remain a teacher i will be a good student to you?
she said " i remember" he then said " as my teacher; from you i learnt that I’m not your friend indeed, but I’m your friend only in need, as my teacher i learnt from you that friendship is about parasitism, you taught me that caring count for nothing in our friendship and you taught me how to use a friend to your own advantage; well then i must say i have passed all the modules you gave to me and all that is happening right now are the learning outcomes" and he left her speechless with a lot of regrets.
The moral of this parable is that; Sharing and caring are true characters of a good friend and in life never take advantage of other people in fact; no one must lose in order for you to gain.
Un-forgiveness
In a far land, there was a kingdom named "The heart" and peace was the reigning king of that time.
Through king "Peace" the entire kingdom lived in harmony and liberty, nothing they could do without prospering, and joyfulness was their guiding light.
One day an enemy from another kingdom sent his messenger whose name was offense; to insult their king and the entire kingdom with blasphemous words.
King peace became angry and decided to pay attention and to hold offense hostage in his kingdom. With a blink of an eye; Grudges crowned himself a new king in the kingdom over throwing king peace.
Through king grudges; Un-forgivingness (a stiff necked king from a far kingdom) came to cage the entire kingdom which is "The heart" kingdom.
Then bitterness became a measure in which the kingdom was now ruled.
The moral of this parable is that; people may offend you anyhow but holding on to an offense results into grudges and a person with grudges cannot forgive; un-forgiveness cages the heart and through un-forgiveness the heart becomes a warehouse of bitterness and deep hurts.
The power of wisdom
A man once sold sweets on the street for as little as 20 cents while his competitors sold 30 cents per sweet. Many people looked down on him and they mocked him by saying “this man's poverty is a chronic diseases, how will he make big profit with low prices?"
He was then confused and devastated in his mind, but As a man of wisdom he sat down and think; "the only way to attract customers is to lower the price and the only way to chase them away is to higher the price, which means the lower the price; the more they come and the higher
The price; the more they go away". He then decided to test his theory by sticking to the low price; many customers came for his items despising those of his competitors and always went home with an empty sweet basket while his competitors went home with theirs full. His business grew and he became a wholesaler.
The moral of this parable is that through wisdom; wealth is established and with folly it is devastated. Better is a poor man with wisdom than a rich man who lacks insight.
The garbage boy and the restless rich man
There was once a poor boy in a certain village whose entire family was wiped out through a tragic motor accident.
The death of his family members became the end of his dreams and hopelessness became the focal point of devastation.
His home ended up on a street where he was a beggar, but dissatisfaction channeled him to look for food in garbage bins.
On his quest to look for food, he located a bin alongside the gate of a certain rich man where he managed to get some leftovers to make peace with his stomach.
He could always notice the boy eating freely from the garbage and walking freely on his street.
On his absence; his home became the boys' home and out of goodness; he established his own wealth.