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A Father And A Son

April 14, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

I once heard a story of a father who was trying to read the paper with his young son sitting on the floor beside him. The child kept disturbing his father and distracting him from the article that he was trying to read. After several attempts of the father telling the young son to not disturb him the father found a picture of the world in the paper. He then tore the picture into several different small parts and then handed all the pieces to his son.

His son asked,”Dad, what do you want me to do with these pieces of paper?” Cleverly thinking, the father then said,”I want you to take these pieces of paper and reconstruct the picture of the world.” The son went to work and the father finally thought he would have some peace but no sooner than he got relaxed he heard his son say,”I got it Dad!”

To his surprise he looked down to see the picture of the world back together and then he said to his young son,”How did you reconstruct the world back together so quickly?” The son then said,”Awe dad it was easy”. What do you mean it was easy, the father asked? “Well dad there was a picture of a man on the back of the world and when I put the man together the world came together.”

The father then picked up his son and said,”I am proud of you son because if we are not together then how can we expect something else to come together?”

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A Lesson From A Child…

April 12, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

 Several years ago I bought a model rocket for my son. He was around six years old as we sat on the floor constructing the rocket. I will never forget this lesson of life from my son that was taught to me that day. The rocket was almost complete with only the decals left to be placed. We had followed all the principles for the construction of the rocket to insure its future flight but as we began to place the decals on the rocket my son kept trying to place them in places that did not match the picture on the box.

 I kept telling him,”Son, we need to do it like this to match the picture,” but he kept going against my instruction and placing them in different locations. Finally after my six year old son got aggravated with me trying to guide his actions he looked up to me and said,”Dad, why do we have to do like everyone else? Can’t we just do it our way?” This hit me like a train in the wisdom from my six year old son at the time. 

 I could not hold my son back any longer and I said,”You are right son we can do it our way, for it is not the look that determines how high the rocket will fly since we have followed the principles in putting it together.”

 James A. Harrison

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Work Together Without Resistance

December 14, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

 Recently, a friend shared a story with me about his two boys that were going to build a deck one afternoon. His son requested the help of his brother on the construction of the deck. The son that was building the deck at his home had studied the instructions from the Internet and relayed this information to the his brother before he arrived.

 This task concerned the brother that was called to help because he had his own way of construction and did not want listen to the Internet instruction. In his love for his brother he agreed to help but along the way he called his father for some council. The father gave him some good advice in spiritual wisdom that helped his two sons not only accomplish the task in a timely manner but it kept them united in spirit without the spiritual resistance between them hindering the mission.

 The fathers advice was simply this,”Just help your brother build his deck.”  That advice seems short but it is very wise because too many times we encounter spiritual resistance between one another because we get to busy trying to tell someone else how to achieve their goals. There are principles that have to be followed to accomplish any objective but each person might not travel the same road to reach their destination.  

 Here is the life lesson from this experience. Pay attention to what someone is asking to hear their needs and learn to work with them to achieve their goal. God gives each one of us individual objectives and it should be our goal to understand our position without trying to take over someone elses mission…Amen   

 James A. Harrison

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