USING ALL YOUR STRENGTH

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How many of us have succeeded in identifying our true strength?

 

USING ALL YOUR STRENGTH

 

(Author Unknown)

 

 

 

A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox.

 

 

 

He had with him his box of cars and trucks, his plastic pail, and a shiny, red

plastic shovel. In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand,

he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox. The lad dug around the

rock, managing to dislodge it from the dirt. With no little bit of struggle, he

pushed and nudged the rock across the sandbox by using his feet. (He was a very

small boy and the rock was very huge.)

 

 

 

When the boy got the rock to the edge of the sandbox, however, he found that he

couldn't roll it up and over the little wall. Determined, the little boy shoved,

pushed, and pried, but every time he thought he had made some progress, the rock

tipped and then fell back into the sandbox.

 

 

 

The little boy grunted, struggled, pushed, shoved -- but his only reward was to

have the rock roll back, smashing his chubby fingers. Finally he burst into

tears of frustration.

 

 

 

All this time the boy's father watched from his living room window as the drama

unfolded. At the moment the tears fell, a large shadow fell across the boy and

the sandbox. It was the boy's father. Gently but firmly he said, "Son, why

didn't you use all the strength that you had available?"

 

 

 

Defeated, the boy sobbed back, "But I did, Daddy, I did! I used all the strength

that I had!"

 

 

 

"No, son," corrected the father kindly. "You didn't use all the strength you

had. You didn't ask me."

 

 

 

With that the father reached down, picked up the rock, and removed it from the

sandbox

 

 

 

 

 

 

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