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Each 'n' Every problem has a Lesson to Learn, fantastic Growth Story - An
Excellent Narration 'Simply Yours'.
Lesson to Learn
While we all pray for each other that one should not come across any obstacle
in life, I have a different view after read the following.
We must come across obstacles and need to pray for each other to overcome
obstacles (with some pain) and progress.
One night recently my daughter was showing me an aquarium full of tadpoles. She
had purchased a whole bag full of them for her children to watch grow from
tadpoles into frogs. It was fun watching all of those little wiggly creatures
swimming around in the aquarium! It brought back many fond memories of my own
childhood, playing with "critters" down at my grandparent' s house.
I noticed that there was a big rock in the aquarium. When I asked her why she
put a rock right in the middle of the tadpoles' environment, she told me an
interesting story. I can hardly believe
that
I have lived all these years without having heard it. It is so good and
"life-essence saturated."
She said that she was instructed by the Pet Store Salesman to be sure to "put a
big rock right in the middle of the aquarium." He explained that "the tadpoles
must have this obstacle to give them the incentive to climb up and thus split
their little wiggly tails so that their legs can begin to develop. If they have
no rock or obstacle to climb up on, they will never turn into frogs. They
cannot learn how to hop by just swimming around in water. They must have
something causing resistance to give them the incentive to leap forward.
The man went on to tell her that last year a school teacher came back to the
store and complained because none of her tadpoles had ever turned into frogs.
She had put all of them in an aquarium and let them swim around but they never
became frogs. He asked her if she had put a big obstacle, like a rock, in the
middle of the aquarium. She said that she had not. She did not know that a
tadpole will remain a tadpole unless it faces some obstacle or barrier that
forces it to grow. Neither did I, but it makes perfect sense.
So, my daughter was excited to show me all of the tadpoles swimming around the
rock. In time, they will begin to try to climb up it and eventually they will
make the transformation into a more fully mature creature.
Well, I was amazed and delighted to hear that story. It helped me better to
see, once again, why life presents obstacles and barriers in front of us. The
barriers are not there to hinder us, but they are there to cause us to grow. It
is not so much what the object is in front of each one of us that matters as
much as it is our attitude towards it. If we realize that the obstacle we are
facing is really a gift that has come our way to help us grow and mature, we
will be much more likely to face it in a positive
manner.
Since I watched those tadpoles the other night and saw the big rock in their
aquarium, I have begun to see the obstacles I face in a different way. Instead
of being rocks in my path, those obstacles have become stepping stones to help
me leap forward in whatever situation I find myself.
I know that those little tadpoles have no idea what is going on. They just are
not that smart. The truth of the matter is, neither are we. Most of us have no
idea what all is going on in our lives either. We don't understand that the
barriers and obstacles, challenges, difficulties and hard times that come our
way each day are actually there for a purpose. There is no way we will have the
incentive to grow, or to become better, or to strive harder, if everything in
life is just a simple situation. I know the harder I work at anything, the more
profitable it is for me, not only financially, but personally, in my own heart
and character as
well.
So, the next time you see a frog hopping around, smile at him and thank him for
the lesson, remembering the struggle he has gone through to get where he is.
Perhaps out in the wild somewhere, he faced a difficult rock or barrier in his
life, but rather than swimming away from it, he just crawled up on it and began
to develop his personal strength until he eventually matured to become the frog
that you see hopping around.
Moral: Remember... Obstacles are there to help you...
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