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ROCK REMOVAL 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.
Sound familiar??? We all have rocks to move,
we need to go directly to our Father to get the job done!!
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.
Sound familiar??? We all have rocks to move,
we need to go directly to our Father to get the job done!!