I'm grateful for this story -
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I'm grateful for this story -
My partner told me a story last night that I really enjoyed. Maybe you will too -
In a very poor community in Mexico, five poor families together own a donkey. The donkey is very important to them. Without it it's much harder for them to earn any money, or to transport their goods to market, or work their fields.
One day when it's very hot & their well has dried up, the donkey wanders off looking for water. But it slips and falls down 5m, deep into the dry well. The donkey isn't hurt, but stuck in the bottom of the well.
The families talk a long time about how to get the donkey out. They need their donkey & are very poor, but after long & hard debate they decide they can't help him so they will bury him in the well & somehow try to get another donkey.
So with shovels the families start to shovel dirt into the well to bury the donkey.
The first shovel-full of dirt lands on his back. He shakes it off and tramples it underfoot. Another shovel-full of dirt lands on his back. He shakes it off and tramples it underfoot.
The dirt keeps coming, and every time the donkey shakes it off his back and tramples it underfoot. As the families keep shovelling in dirt, the donkey keeps trampling it underfoot until...
The well is almost full of dirt and the donkey has trampled down more than 4m of dirt until he's almost at the top, and exhausted as he is, he climbs out.
I'm not a great story teller, but I loved this one. Maybe you will too, because no matter how much dirt is shovelled on top of us, we can trample it under our feet and raise ourselves to the light & crawl out of the hole we've fallen into.
Have courage friends.
In a very poor community in Mexico, five poor families together own a donkey. The donkey is very important to them. Without it it's much harder for them to earn any money, or to transport their goods to market, or work their fields.
One day when it's very hot & their well has dried up, the donkey wanders off looking for water. But it slips and falls down 5m, deep into the dry well. The donkey isn't hurt, but stuck in the bottom of the well.
The families talk a long time about how to get the donkey out. They need their donkey & are very poor, but after long & hard debate they decide they can't help him so they will bury him in the well & somehow try to get another donkey.
So with shovels the families start to shovel dirt into the well to bury the donkey.
The first shovel-full of dirt lands on his back. He shakes it off and tramples it underfoot. Another shovel-full of dirt lands on his back. He shakes it off and tramples it underfoot.
The dirt keeps coming, and every time the donkey shakes it off his back and tramples it underfoot. As the families keep shovelling in dirt, the donkey keeps trampling it underfoot until...
The well is almost full of dirt and the donkey has trampled down more than 4m of dirt until he's almost at the top, and exhausted as he is, he climbs out.
I'm not a great story teller, but I loved this one. Maybe you will too, because no matter how much dirt is shovelled on top of us, we can trample it under our feet and raise ourselves to the light & crawl out of the hole we've fallen into.
Have courage friends.
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