What a powerful friday story from Michael Josephson on using all your strength using the strength of your resources and those who are around you.
Yes there will be people who are will to assist and those who will say I am unable to for some reason, yet its what happens. We have to use all the
strength that we can do the task at hand.
Weather its asking for help or doing our best, we use the strength of others and our mastermind group to obtain our indervidual goals as a person.
Using All Your Strength
A young boy was walking with his father along a country road. When they came across a very large tree branch the boy asked, “Do you think I could move that branch?”
His father answered, “If you use all your strength, I’m sure you can.”
So the boy tried mightily to lift, pull and push the branch but he couldn’t move it. Discouraged he said, “Dad, you were wrong. I can’t do it.”
His dad said, “Try again.” This time, as the boy struggled with the branch his father joined him and together they pushed the branch aside.
“Son,” the father said, “the first time you didn’t use all your strength. You didn’t ask me to help.”
This is an important lesson. There are many things we can’t do alone, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get them done. We all are surrounded by resources that can be mobilized to help us achieve our goals including family, friends and faith. Sometimes we fail to ask for help because of pride or stubbornness. Sometimes we think it’s a sign of weakness to admit we need a hand. And sometimes we don’t even think about asking for help. Whatever the reason, it’s a waste.
It’s important that we learn to use all our strength; this includes inner resources such as discipline, courage and even love. But it also includes outer resources. Just as we should be willing to help others we should be willing to ask the help of others. It’s one of the great things about being human.
Michael Josephson
www.charactercounts.org*The story is derived from a story told by David Wolpe in Teaching Your Children About God (Harper Perennial 1995)
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