Be happy where you are planted
The
child admired its beauty and enjoyed its fragrance. “How lovely!” she
exclaimed.
As
she gazed on it, her eyes followed the stem down to the soil in which it grew.
“What
a shame!” she cried, “This flower is too pretty to be planted in such dirt!”
So
she pulled out the plant by its roots and ran to the water faucet (a tap) to
wash away the clinging soil.
It
wasn’t long until the flower wilted and the plant began to die.
The
gardener saw what she had done and scolded her. “You have destroyed my finest plant.”
“But
I didn’t like it in that dirt” whimpered the child.
The
gardener replied: “I chose that spot and mixed the soil well since I knew that
there it would come to maturity and bloom better.”
The
voyage of discovering lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new
eyes.
We
must accept the unchangeable and change the unacceptable.
We
often murmur against the circumstances God has placed us in, but rarely seek
His will.
