May 19 Fri
The seven qualities of a pencil🖍️ which, if you manage to adopt them, will make you a happy person, always at peace with God and the world.

❤️ First quality: You must never forget that there is a hand guiding you. That hand is God, and He always guides us to fulfill His Will.

❤️Second quality: Now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, it is much sharper.
You, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

❤️Third quality: The pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes, turning it upside down.
This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the right path.

❤️ Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside.
So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

❤️Fifth quality: It always leaves a mark.
In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that the trail you leave is right.

❤️Sixth quality: It gets shorter and shorter with use.... so too is life.
Put it aright while it lasts.

❤️Seventh quality: It writes till the very end. Be useful and productive till the end.
Illustration: St John Paul II, in Guadalupe, a life lived for God and the others.