picking pebbels with pops
Picking pebbles with pops
Early this morning I woke up with the true belief, that god would solve all my problems.
I knew that only if I asked in true belief would or could he help me. This is when i
somehow i realized that i was ready to face the ultimate challenge in life the responsibility of holding what i believe without surrendering what i hold in truth to satisfy my own
selfish desire and to do this i must help others to find in them selves
what they believe and to accept their beliefs to be just as true and important
as my beliefs whether we can agree on them or not
it is in this infinite belief i find the strength to walk with angels and learn
what it means to ask myself what would Jesus do the only reason i say this is
because this morning i received the strangest of requests i was literally asked to
get to know someone who was no longer with us and write a poem about him so only with the knowledge that god
has put me here to solve one problem and one problem alone i must solve this
contradiction which i have been pondering my whole life "one man can't change the world"
vs. "you can do anything if you put your mind to it"
well i found the answer to this problem in a farmer’s field where i picked rocks with my son
so he would know how to feed the masses if he ever felt the calling to save the world
so i challenged my only son to a contest picking rocks. i told him (because i could tell
how angry he was that he was the one who had to pick rocks) i bet you what ever we get
out of picking these rocks today that i can pick more rocks than you. you have youth on your side (13)
and i have wisdom (36) but i will share the knowledge i plan to use today and this is what i told him
a man who believes he can pick more rocks can pick more rocks than anyone who just says they can pick more rocks
and being a copy and paste kind of kid he said it’s still not fair that is why i said
i knew you would say that so i also brought another variable (choice) i brought 2 buckets and big bucket and a
little bucket and to make it fair i will allow you to chose which bucket you want so it is fair and that’s
when he said well my arm kind of hurts so i said i also brought a loaf of bread and peanut butter so u can't say
you didn't have breakfast and i also brought sugar free Kool-Aid packs so you can't say all we had to drink was water
but i can promise you one thing you will never beat me unless you truly believe in your heart that you can win
we started picking rocks at the small field and when we were nearing the end of it neither one of us had used a bucket
very much but none the less i looked at him and mouthed
i have and held up one finger and then held up 3 fingers he shook his head no and i spoke up that’s right 111 rocks
he challenged me and said i don’t believe there is even 111 rocks in the bucket i told him if u just want to wait till
the end of the day and ask how many rocks i picked up i will tell you with honesty then if u want you can add one
and i will admit defeat he again shook his head no then he actually looked in the bucket and said but you have
been picking up all the little rocks i thought we didn’t have to pick those up i said we don't but what would you do to win
would you pick up the pebbles? that is when i said i tell you what since i still believe you can win this we will start over
on the big field but u will never beat me unless you believe you can he said just shut up my arm hurts to much for this
i said if your arm hurts then because i believe in you i will only use one arm and he said no so when we started i picked up
the little bucket and held it in my right hand because it was his belief the little bucket was better cause it was easier
it wasn't until he saw me carrying an empty bucket around fumbling to pick up more than one rock at a time with my left hand
that he found the ability to believe that maybe if he took the big bucket and filled as full as he could carry he could get
rocks to the bucket faster than me and when he believed he could do it and filled the bucket and carried it over his papa
pulled up and said i need Trent to come help me with something else so i had no choice but to look at him and ask
how many you got he said only 15 and i was honest with him and said i only have 11 i told you if u believed in yourself
you could do it so they drove off and i continued to pick stones so i could learn my lesson and it wasn't until i took
off my shoes and socks and picked stones barefoot that i realized Jesus and pops were there with me and that is when pops
told me to tell you all that he has found salvation and he wants you all to know why it is important to pick the pebbles
it isn’t until we pick up a pebble that we can become aware just how big our problem is if we just pick the big stones and walk by
all the pebbles we must return to the same problem over and over so pops wants you to remember him by telling anyone who asks you
what your problem is tell them you’re not sure your still picking the pebbles with pops
and it is at this point i must recommend that although i truly do believe that you believe i could write a great poem to sum all this up
i really must encourage you to take this information and share it any way you chose fit but write your own poem even if
you feel it is only mediocre it will be more beautiful to him if you've created it and isn’t it him that this is all about
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