Thursday 21 February 2019

Never give up!

A man was driving on a country road one day, and as he was distracted looking at the map, he swerved his car into a ditch and got stuck in the mud. Although he was not hurt, he was upset about his predicament and tried to pull it out by himself, which was an impossible task. So he decided to go and ask for help. He knocked at the door of a nearby farmhouse and asked the farmer if he can help him. ‘Warwick will get you out of there,’ he told him without hesitation, pointing to an old donkey tethered to a pole. The man was hesitant to accept the offer as he felt pity for the old, ailing donkey. But the farmer convinced him that Warwick will do the job.
Realizing he had nothing to lose, he accepted the offer for Warwick to help out. So the two men walked towards the car along with Warwick. The farmer tied the donkey to the car with a rope and started yelling ‘Pull Fred, pull Jack, pull Teddy, pull Warwick.’ And within a few minutes, Warwick was able to pull the car out of the mud and the ditch. The man thanked the farmer and gave him a small donation, but before he left he asked the happy farmer ‘by the way, why did you call your donkey with all those names before you called him Warwick?’
The farmer smiled and said, ‘you have to know that Warwick is blind. But as long as he feels like part of a team, he doesn’t give up and is always willing to help, even though he is very old.’
A big lesson for us never to give up, even if we are alone and weak.

1 comment:

  1. I fell in love with this story. I am printing it out to bring to work and giving a copy to my folks. Thank you, Fr. Julian.

    Heidi
    Baker City, OR

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