Removing a stone

Alittle boy was spending his saturday morning playing in his sandbox.He had with him a box of cars and trucks,a plastic bag,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 dig it out from the dirt.With a little bit of struggle,he pushed the rock across the sandbox by using his feet.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 pushed and pushed,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,moving against his chubby fingers.

Finally he burst into tears of frustration.All this time the boy's father watched from his living room window.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.

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?There is one who is always available to us and willing to give us the strength we need.Isn't it funny how we try so hard to do things ourselves?

在一個周六的早上，一個小男孩在他的沙箱里玩耍，還帶了一盒子的玩具車、一個塑料袋和一把閃閃發(fā)亮的塑料小紅鏟。在柔軟的沙中堆砌道路和隧道的過程中，他在沙箱的中央發(fā)現(xiàn)了一塊大石頭。

小男孩在石頭的周圍挖呀挖，試圖把它從泥沙中挖出來。經(jīng)過不斷努力，他用腳把石頭往沙箱上推。當他把石頭推到沙箱的邊緣時，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)自己沒辦法使石頭滾過沙箱那堵矮小的墻。

小男孩下定決心要把石頭移走，他推了又推，但每次自以為取得了一些成果時，那石頭又滾了下來掉回了沙箱中。小男孩咕噥著，使盡全力去推。但最終的結(jié)果就是石頭滾了回來，向著他胖胖的手指沖過來。

最后，小男孩沮喪地大哭起來。小男孩的父親一直在客廳的窗戶旁注視著這一幕。當小男孩開始掉眼淚的時候，一個大大的身影落在小男孩和他的沙箱上。那是父親的影子。他溫和而堅定地問：“兒子，為什么你沒有用盡你所有的力量？”小男孩很受挫，嗚咽地回答道：“我用了，爸爸，我用了！我用盡了我全身的力量?！薄安?，兒子，”父親溫柔地糾正他說：“你沒有用盡你所有的力量。你沒有叫我來幫你?！备赣H邊說邊彎下腰，撿起那塊石頭丟出了沙箱。

在你的生命中，你也遇到過需要移開的“石頭”嗎？你有沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)你缺少挪動它的力量？但無論如何，總會有某人在我們需要幫助的時候愿意向我們伸出援手。我們單靠自己的力量來辦事不是很傻嗎？