A very little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him a plastic pail (桶) and a shiny, red plastic shovel (铲). In the1of creating roads and tunnels in the sand, he 2a large rock in the middle of the sandbox.
The boy dug around the rock,3to move it off the dirt. At first, he wanted to carry it out of the sandbox with his hands; however, it was too heavy. Later, with much4, he pushed the rock across the sandbox by5his hands. When the boy got the rock to the6of the sandbox, he found that he couldn’t roll it up and7the little wall.8, the little boy pushed, but every time he thought he had made some9, the rock tipped (翻滚) and then fell back into the sandbox. The little boy pushed and pushed, but his only10was to have the rock roll back.
Finally he11tears. All this time the boy’s father watched from his living room window12the drama was unfolded. The moment the tears fell, a large13appeared across the sandbox. It was the boy’s father. Gently but14, he said, “Son, why didn’t you use all the strength that you had?”
Defeated, the boy15back, “I did! I did! I used all the strength that I had!”
“No, you didn’t. You didn’t ask me for help.” The father16down, picked up the rock and dropped it off the sandbox.
Do you have “rocks” in your life that need to be17? Are you discovering that you don’t have18it takes to lift them? There is someone who is willing to give us the19we need. Maybe, it’s sometimes a good idea to ask others for20when we meet difficulties we can’t overcome.
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