Lesson worth learning

One rainy Sunday afternoon, a little boy was bored and his father was sleepy. The father decided to create an activity to keep the kid busy. So, he found in the morning newspaper a large map of the world. He took scissors and cut it into a good many irregular shapes like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he said to his son, 'See if you can put this puzzle together. And don't disturb me until you're finished.' He turned over on the couch, thinking this would occupy the boy for at least an hour. To his amazement, the boy was tapping his shoulder ten minutes later telling him that the job was done. The father saw that every piece of the map had been fitted together perfectly. 'How did you do that?' he asked. 'It was easy, Dad. There was a picture of a man on the other side. When I got him together right, the world was right.'

A person's world can never be right until the person is right