SMILE JESUS LOVES YOU!!J
Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision,
but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
- unknown
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
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 and 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.
A little boy was spending his Saturday
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