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Father and Son

November 29th, 2006

Here is the story of a father who wanted to teach an important lesson to his son.  He went out under a tree and gathered up a handful of branches that were small enough to break quite easily.  The father tied them together with a piece of string so that they became such a bundle that the boy could hardly hold them in his hands.

“Now”, said the father, “I will give you a dollar if you will break these branches in two.”  the boy tried with all his strength, but couldn’t make them bend.

“I can’t do it, Dad,” the boy said.  “Let’s see you try.”

“It’s easy,” his father said.  “All you have to do is to break them one at a time.”

So he untied the string and took each one and broke it easily.

The lesson here is that if we take all our problems at once and try to solve them we can’t, but if we take them one at a time it is so much easier! 

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