Are you a Giant or a Burden?

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Christ, cross, faith, family, God, Jesus, self improvement, story, success, Uncategorized

This story really made me think about how easy it is to put ourselves on a pedestal and think we are better than others. We sometimes think our way is the best and only way to do things, and if others don’t agree, they are the ones who are wrong.

Ask God to help you see others the way He sees them. When you can see the other person’s point-of-view, it is much easier to understand them, even if you don’t agree with their thoughts and values. If they think you really care, then God might be able to use you to change their thoughts and heart in certain areas.

When you are open to God’s leading, you never know how He will use you in the life of another person.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A GIANT?

After dinner, the children turned to Jacob and asked if he would tell them a story.

“A story about what?” asked Jacob.

“About a giant,” squealed the children.

Jacob smiled, leaned against the warm stones at the side of the fireplace, and his voice turned softly inward.

“Once there was a boy who asked his father to take him to see the great parade that passed through the village. The father, remembering the parade from when he was a boy, quickly agreed, and the next morning the boy and his father set out together.

“As they approached the parade route, people started to push in from all sides, and the crowd grew thick. When the people along the way became almost a wall; the father lifted his son and placed him on his shoulders.

“Soon the parade began and as it passed, the boy kept telling his father how wonderful it was and how spectacular were the colors and images. The boy, in fact, grew so prideful of what he saw that he mocked those who saw less saying, even to his father, ‘If only you could see what I see.’”

“But,” said Jacob staring straight in the faces of the children, “what the boy did not look at was why he could see. What the boy forgot was that once his father, too, could see.”

Then as if he had finished the story, Jacob stopped speaking.

“Is that it?” said a disappointed girl. “We thought you were going to tell us a story about a giant.”

“But I did,” said Jacob. “I told you a story about a boy who could have been a giant.”

“How?” squealed the children.

“A giant,” said Jacob, “is anyone who remembers we are all sitting on someone else’s shoulders.”

“And what does it make us if we don’t remember?” asked the boy.

“A burden,” answered Jacob.

today’sTHOT============================

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself you have no time to criticize others.

(This is another story from Mikey’s Funnies)

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