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<blockquote data-quote="Sunlight" data-source="post: 25187" data-attributes="member: 97"><p>the more you tell me about your newspaper, the angrier I get. it sounds like a bad news gossip sheet. ugh!</p><p>I thought you had been rather quiet lately, DDD.</p><p></p><p>so, the things you list are all things out of your control. what can you do about them?</p><p>pray about them. let others find their own paths, nurture yourself. that is about it. you are used to digging in and finding answers, you are intelligent and want things to work out best for all concerned.</p><p></p><p>nothing wrong with that. I find I am less depressed when I stop trying to put my hopes in things I cannot control anyway!</p><p>a small story for you:</p><p></p><p>God gives a man a small child's wagon with three stones in it, not too big. he asks the man if he can pull the wagon up the mountain and leave the stones on the other side.</p><p></p><p>the man sees that the wagon is not too big and the stones are not big either. so he says yes to God.</p><p></p><p>on the way, the man comes across his friend John. John tells the friend that God had given him a small bag of pebbles, and since the man is going over the mountain could he bring the bag with him?? the man says "sure!, you are my friend and I want to help".</p><p></p><p>so on the man goes, he comes across his pal Joe, and Joe has a few small stones God has given him to take up the mountain. Joe notices there is room in the wagon for them. the man, being a good man and a stellar friend, agrees to add them to the wagon.</p><p></p><p>it is night and he stops in a small village to rest. while there he meets some others with small pebbles, and various stones God has asked them to carry to the other side of the mountain. The man agrees to help all these poor folks and adds them to the wagon. </p><p></p><p>the next morning the man reaches half way up the mountain, huffing and puffing. he tugs the wagon, and it hits his heel, he cries out to God that he cannot do this the load is too big and he gives up.</p><p></p><p>God comes down and looks in the wagon. He tells the man that he only gave him three stones to carry. he removes the pebbles of John, the small stones of Joe and the other village people's (small pun here...lol) stones. </p><p></p><p>God asks the man why he took on other people's burdens. he tells the man that he specifically gave him his own stones and gave the right stones for others to carry. he did not expect the man to carry the other's burdens. </p><p></p><p>with the other people's stones out of the wagon, the man was able to easily go on up the mountain. </p><p></p><p>so...carry your own weight and let others carry theirs. </p><p></p><p>the end of Aesop's fractured fairy tales.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunlight, post: 25187, member: 97"] the more you tell me about your newspaper, the angrier I get. it sounds like a bad news gossip sheet. ugh! I thought you had been rather quiet lately, DDD. so, the things you list are all things out of your control. what can you do about them? pray about them. let others find their own paths, nurture yourself. that is about it. you are used to digging in and finding answers, you are intelligent and want things to work out best for all concerned. nothing wrong with that. I find I am less depressed when I stop trying to put my hopes in things I cannot control anyway! a small story for you: God gives a man a small child's wagon with three stones in it, not too big. he asks the man if he can pull the wagon up the mountain and leave the stones on the other side. the man sees that the wagon is not too big and the stones are not big either. so he says yes to God. on the way, the man comes across his friend John. John tells the friend that God had given him a small bag of pebbles, and since the man is going over the mountain could he bring the bag with him?? the man says "sure!, you are my friend and I want to help". so on the man goes, he comes across his pal Joe, and Joe has a few small stones God has given him to take up the mountain. Joe notices there is room in the wagon for them. the man, being a good man and a stellar friend, agrees to add them to the wagon. it is night and he stops in a small village to rest. while there he meets some others with small pebbles, and various stones God has asked them to carry to the other side of the mountain. The man agrees to help all these poor folks and adds them to the wagon. the next morning the man reaches half way up the mountain, huffing and puffing. he tugs the wagon, and it hits his heel, he cries out to God that he cannot do this the load is too big and he gives up. God comes down and looks in the wagon. He tells the man that he only gave him three stones to carry. he removes the pebbles of John, the small stones of Joe and the other village people's (small pun here...lol) stones. God asks the man why he took on other people's burdens. he tells the man that he specifically gave him his own stones and gave the right stones for others to carry. he did not expect the man to carry the other's burdens. with the other people's stones out of the wagon, the man was able to easily go on up the mountain. so...carry your own weight and let others carry theirs. the end of Aesop's fractured fairy tales. [/QUOTE]
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