大象传媒

Good Morning. When I was a child I loved my father and mother sitting with us and telling stories at night. It created a whole world of imagination. I could see the characters, and the scenery, and the action, and we loved to hear the same story again and again.

It wasn鈥檛 until years later that I realised that they had put thought into the kind of stories they told us. Of course Ireland had an ancient tradition of storytelling, and the old tales were meant to inspire us, to elevate us, to help us think through life with the examples of characters successes and failures. My parents wanted the stories to help us become better people.

Our lives are in essence stories. At the end of our days we will have a tale to tell but I have to ask myself if the story will be worth telling? And, although we will have plenty of videos and social media updates, they are only our smiling public face.

A story worth hearing would tell of our real character and of our heart. That鈥檚 the story we like to hear. Is it a story we would be proud to tell? There are stories of wonderful people and noble examples found in all the religions of the world. These stories are the most influential and inspiring we know, loved by billions of people. They continue to keep our world wondering, thinking, challenged, chaste, enthused, and aspiring to be better.

I pray that we can come out from behind the face paint of social media and be the story we want to tell our children. To fire their imagination with words from the world鈥檚 religions, and examples from our own lives, of where we failed, and got up, but honestly tried, so that we could tell them a story. Hare Krishna