Pio's Proverb 6: How important are you?

Very important!   Let me show you how much by way of an example or two:
I met Elaine Bersakowski when I was studying psychology at the University of Detroit. She was so innocent, beautiful and loving but very shy. She remained so as long as I knew her; but I tried to bolster her self confidence by telling her that in this life, she will be walking down a corridor that no one has yet walked down before. There will be a light hanging down and the string to pull to turn it on or off. It will hang down and  will gently touch her face as she looks up at it. I said to Elaine: "Only you will see this string and light. No one will see them or be able to reach them. If you pull the string, the light will go on forever. If you do not bother to pull the string, the light will remain off forever as well." I was trying to convey to her how unique she was in the universe; and that no one can do or even think of doing what life's opportunities to help others will come to her alone.  She listened, and I hope this caused her to be more courageous.  A month later or so, she came to me with a problem. Seems that as a student nurse in her freshman year, she was assigned to care for a patient to obtain experience and practice. She told me her patient was a man who sat rigid and did not speak at all. He has been this way for a long time. She asked me what she could do for this man who was aware of anyone or anything. I told her that from my studies, I believed that this was a case of catatonia. The patient commits emotional suicide, cannot face some fear, or is hurting over an incredible hurt in his life.  Learning of this, she all the more asked what could she do for him. I told her that he was basically free and could hear and see what is around him. I told her to read to him from a little pamphlet I gave her on Guadian Angels. I told her to get right into his face and in his line of vision so he has to see you. He will not turn away. I told her that she, herself, looked like an angel and that would give great credence to what she would be saying to him. I told her to emphasize how protective angels are and loving and that they are so smart as to have like 50 Ph.D's. That would impress him. Well, she took the pampthlet and was happy to have some plan of action. Elaine was so innocent and beautiful that her face truly did look like the face of an angel.  Maybe he would believe that she was an angel speaking to him.
        Elaine saw me a few days later and had tears in her eyes and could hardly speak. I asked what happened. She said she was in a large room, a class with hundreds of other student nurses. Over the PA came an announcement from the head nurse of the program who said this: "My fellow students, I wish to announce to you that a patient who could not move and that no doctor could reach for 15 years, has had a complete breakthrough and is talking and moving. This miraculous change has been brought about by student Elaine Bersakowski.  Now, Ladies, we can educate you and graduate you as nurses; but you have to be in your heart a nurse before you come here.  Do you know why Elaine Bersakowski was able to cure this man. She was able to do it because she IS A NURSE!"
       Elaine still had tears in her eyes are she completed her story. It was altogether too much for her delicate and shy nature.  "O!" I said, "You saw the string and pulled it and turned the light on!"
        You, yourself, dear reader, may feel you have few talents or are not educated or are shy or don't relate well to people. But maybe you have a beautiful mind....and heart!   You are unique and unrepeatable. No one in the universe has ever had the same feelings as you do.  God enjoys hearing your prayers just as much as those of a great saint.  Do not parents love the first words of their children?  In your life, you will see strings attached to lights that no one will ever see. If you pull those strings, the lights will go on forever. If you do not, they will remain dark forever.  Just look at the little boy who had two loaves and a fish. He had a lunch. Jesus needed it to feed 5000 people. The boy did not say that this was his lunch and no one could have it. He gave up his lunch and got so much more fish and bread. There were 12 baskets of left overs from his little lunch - enough for him to bring some home to his parents.  The little boy really found out something that day. He never forgot it. He found out that he was very important!  So are you!