Thursday 13 July 2017

Setting High Expectations

           
Today is certainly a day of joy for every one of us here from the parents who shed blood, tears and sweat to make sure their wards go to school in order to guarantee a great future out there; to the teachers who worked tirelessly in moulding the students into this wonderful graduands we see today; but equally importantly, the students, who pull through excruciating pain to study, inculcate the good morals passed on to them and now, we are all celebrating. Congratulations to you all.

I am here to talk on the topic – Setting High Expectations. I am going to share true life stories with you, each with its pointed lessons for everyone here and I will keep each short and simple. There was a man to whom three religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) today accord fatherhood, he was Abraham. One day on a walk with God, God told him to look up and asked, “What do you see?