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Journey with an ex-seminarian as he fulfill his dreams and search his place in the greater scheme of things on the wings of his dreamThe boy who can’t read Spanish
A third grade boy had won a medal as the best reader in class. Puffed with pride, he boasted to the maid at home, “Let’s see if you can read as well as I can, Consuelo.” The good woman took the book, looked at it closely, and finally stammered,
“Why, Billy, I don’t know how to read.”
Proud as a peacock, the little fellow ran into the living room and fairly shouted to his father:
“Dad, Consuelo doesn’t know how to read and I – only eight years old – got a medal for reading. I wonder how she feels, looking at the book she cannot read.”
Without a word, his father went over to the bookshelf, took down a volume, and handed it to the boy, saying,
“she feels like this”
The book was in Spanish and Billy could not read a line of it.
The boy never forgot that lesson.
Whenever he feels like boasting he quietly reminds himself,
“remember, you can’t read Spanish”
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Romuald Matthieson, a.k.a. "bluepanjeet" has been writing in cyber space since 2005. In 2006, he jump-started his Catholic blogging a few years even before the Catholic Church realized the importance of utilizing social networks in spreading the Gospel. In 2007, in response to a realization of the growing need for Catholic Bloggers online, he officially launched his own self-hosted Catholic blog and called it "On The Wings Of My Dream" or simply OTWOMD which is a metaphor of his favorite psalm in the Bible, Psalm 63. Since then he has been blogging, and sometimes podcasting, for the Catholic Church using his enthusiasm in the New Media, his inclination on visual and digital arts, his passion for the written word and his love for the Catholic Church. You can follow Rom's tweets on Twitter @rommatthieson
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I like the moral of the story
What is the moral of the story? haha just kidding.
the moral of the story is i can read german, hehehe
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Hahaha Korek! Papatutor ako sayo lol.
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Probably written by an American, hehehe. Joke:
What do you call a person who can speak two languages? Answer: bilingual
What do you call a person who can speak only one language? Answer: American
hehehe… with apologies to my American friends who are multilingual.
Je suis francophone et Yo hablo espanol. Tagalog at Ilokano pati. Wa na akong masabi, bow.
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hehehe… obviously moral of this story was lost on me