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Am I a good instrument in the hands of God?
A pencil used to be a very useful instrument when there were no computers.
Here, 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.
The saints are examples of good instruments in the hands of God. In the pic, St John Paul II praying before Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.