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Mule in the Well
A must read for anybody who wants to quit when life gets complicated. You don't quit, you shake it off and step up!
A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule "braying"
- or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the
mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well were worth the trouble of saving. Instead he called his neighbors together
and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of
his misery. Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit
his back...a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back.....HE
SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake
it off and step up!" he repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation
seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP! It was not long before
the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL. What seemed like it would bury him,
actually blessed him.....all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity. |
