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Let me tell you a story. Three
construction workers were on top of
their half-finished skyscraper.
Rrrrring!" the lunch bell sounded, and
the three men sat on a steel beam
jutting out of the 56th floor with
their lunch boxes in hand.

The first guy opens his and groans in
exasperation, "Tuyo!" There is
not a day that I don’t get tuyo for
lunch!" He turns to his buddies and
announces, "Mark my words. If I still
get tuyo tomorrow, I’m going to
throw myself from this building."

The second guy opens his lunch box and
moans, "Tinapa". Everyday, I get
tinapa!" He looks at his friends and
declares, "Believe me when I say
this. If I get tinapa tomorrow, I’m
going to jump and kil! l myself."

The third guy opens his lunch box and it
was his turn to despair.
"Galunggong" . All I get is galunggong!"
I’m telling you, if I still
get galunggong tomorrow, I’m going to
jump from this building and die."

The next day, the lunch bell rings and
all three men are again seated
on the 56th floor. The first guy opens
his lunch box and starts crying,
"Tuyoooooo!" And so he jumps and crashes
on the ground.

The second guy opens his lunch box and
wails loudly, "Tinapaaaa!" And
he also hurls himself off the building
and dies.

The third guy opens his lunch box and
screams, "Galunggonggggg! " And
so he too jumps off the building and
splatters on the ground.

Days later, during the funeral of the
three men, their three wives
embrace and weep together. The first
wife cries out, "I didn’t know my
husband didn’t like tuyo anymore! Why
didn’t he tell me? If only he
told me, I would have prepared something
else."

The second wife echoes her statement,
"Yes! If only I knew, I would
have cooked something else, not tinapa!"

The third wife, between sobs, speaks up,
"I don’t know why my husband
killed himself." The two wives look at
her curiously.
"Why?"
She went on, "Because … my husband
prepares his own lunch everyday…"

I love this crazy story because it
presents a very important truth: all
of us prepare our own lunch. If we don’t
like our jobs, if we don’t
like the state of our relationships, if!
we don’t like what’s happening
to our spiritual lives - we have no one
to blame but ourselves. Because
God has given us free will. He has given
us the power to prepare our
own lunch.

If you want to earn more and be free
from debt, if you’re sick and
tired of your bad habits, if we want to
put more joy in our marriages,
if we want to grow in our relationship
with God - then go back to your
kitchen and prepare yourself another
dish. Because you design your own future.
You create your own destiny. Ask
yourself what kind of future do you
want to have? What kind of life? What
kind of eternity? You decide.