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Seven Big Nails |
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Authored By Michael M. Michaelson © August 2002 www.ticktalk.net |
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Pondering this puzzle, he went to his grandfathers old friend next door and invited the old neighbor farmer over one day to take a look-see at his prize old tree. The farmer rubbed his chin as he walked around the tree, carefully examining its roots, picking at its trunk and bending the branches, nodded a few times, told the young farmer to wait here and went home but soon returned carrying several items. The old farmer took SEVEN big crude nails and casually encompassed the tree and at various levels drove the heavy nails into the trunk of the tree. The new young farmer was taken back by this unexpected action but held his protest back, thinking, the tree seemed as though it was dying anyhow, so what difference did it matter what this old crazy man did? The seasons passed when the owner once again was unexpectedly surprised to witness that years harvest of apples from his tree. It was one of the best they ever had! The old farmer came by and explained, "The fruit tree in its old age seems to forget life and its job, and the shock of the large nails being pounded into it, makes the tree…somehow realize what it is suppose to be doing, and what is expected of it. Besides," the old timer laughed his toothless grin and went on, "The nails are gonna either kill it or bring about a revival in its existence! In other words, it is sort of REMINDED or SHOCKED back into worth while production!" The young farmer stood there holding a fine red apple in his hand and was thinking this revelation over, then inquired further of the Old Timer, "Why seven nails?" A serious look spread over the older farmers face as he looked up at the tree "Well son, actually, three nails usually does the job but I knew your grandfather, he always said this tree grew up with him and was his favorite, sort of reminds me of him. He was a good man, just like this tree but a careless soul in many ways and gave up on life far to soon, dying in his sixties! So I figured seven might better well serve his favorite tree, one nail for each of his ten years, and maybe get ten more productive years out of it.....like the seasons should have got out of him!" The parable is this: When one grows old he must never allow himself to think that he can give up on living, and stop producing the "fruits" of life. That individual just might be surprised, finding himself being pounded very hard by stern events and some harsh circumstances. The sign of "demise" for the fruit tree, was when it no longer gave forth fruit and so with a life! Regardless the age, we can not refuse the seasons its bounty nor our days their best! Contact author at: |
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There was a young farmer who had recently inherited his grandfathers farm. Among the many grand trees there stood one special old Apple Tree which had slowly stopped producing fruit. It was old, but the young farmer knew it still had a lot of good life left in its branches and couldn't understand why the tree no longer gave forth fruit! |
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