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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 2:06:17 PM
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i'm enjoying this little book of 'wisdom' .. just read this chapter and it is great for thinking and acting upon.
ARRIVING AT OUR EXPECTATIONS
a YOUNG MAN, CAUGHT IN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIMSELF, CAME TO SEE jACOB.
"i WANT TO BELIEVE IN gOD BUT i DON'T UNDERSTAND gOD," HE SAID.
"nEITHER DO i," SAID jACOB, "bUT, THEN, gOD ISN'T DESIGNED TO FIT INTO MY MIND. eACH OF US IS FROM THE HAND OF gOD. nONE OF US IS tHE hAND."
"wELL, HOW CAN YOU HAVE FAITH WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO INNOCENT PEOPLE?"
"bECAUSE THERE IS A GREAT SADNESS IN LIFE DOES NOT MEAN gOD DOESN'T EXIST. i CHOOSE HOPE OVER DESPAIR."
(whooooooooooooooops! looked up and i'm in caps!)
"So you have no proof."
"Most of us find what we are looking for," said Jacob. He looked up and saw clouds circling inevitably toward rain.
"Walk with me for a while," Jacob said to the young man, and they mnoved silently through the changin weather.
Then, without explanation, Jacob stopped and told his companion to find a tree that they could plant.
"A tree?" asked the young man. "If we plant a tree here by the road, someone else will certainly come along and chop it down."
"Very well," said Jacob. "I will plant the tree."
"But what shall I do?" asked the young man.
"Oh, you?" asked Jacob, his mind acting as if it were already somewhere else. "You will find somebody to chop down the tree."
WOWZER! are we tree planters or tree choppers??? xoxo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
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Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 24 2006 : 10:50:04 PM
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Frannie - that really is a wonderful anecdote. It DOES make you want to examine just exactly what parts of life we are focusing on and moving toward, whether we choose to recognize it or not! Thanks for the lovely, gentle reminder.
XOXO, Libbie
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