Fw: Moving Rocks (Inspirational)

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Sai Ram.

 

A gentle reminder for all of us facing challenges........

 

With love & light,

 

Madhvi

 

 

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 boy dug around the rock, managing to dislodge it from the dirt. With a

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 large.) 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.

Do you have "rocks" in your life that need to be removed? Are you discovering

that you don't have what it takes to lift them? There is One who is always

available to us and willing to give us the strength we need. Isn't it funny how

we try so hard to do things ourselves.

- Author Anonymous