MOVING ROCKS

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MOVING ROCKS

 

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.

 

REFLECTION

 

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? Isn't it funny how we try so

hard to do things ourselves.

 

There is One who is always available to us and willing to give us the strength

we need and he is GOD.

 

Next time we have rocks to move in our life, let us seek HIS help earnestly and

surrender to HIM, HE would take care of the rest!