The Rock

The Rock

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. So, this the man did; day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down; his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might.

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain. Since the man was showing signs of discouragement, the Enemy decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the man's weary mind:

"You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to move it." Thus, giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll just put in my time giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough." And that is what he planned to do, until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.

"Lord," he said, "I have labored long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half an inch. What is wrong? Why am I failing?"

The Lord responded compassionately, "My friend, when I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push.

And now you come to me with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself...Your arms are strong and muscled, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done.

Now I, my friend, will now move the rock.

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I really liked this poem, it was the first time I've read it. So I thought I should post it for others to read. =D

Carry your cross and follow me!!

 
The message of this story is "to carry your cross".

Fun Facts!!

So i found this site that has a lot of animal fun facts so here they are....
 I found them @ http://www.funfactz.com/animal-facts/2:

1.    A rodent's teeth never stop growing

2. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

3. A slug has four noses

4. A snail can sleep for three years

5. A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length

6. A spider's silk is stronger than steel

7. A tuna fish can swim 100 miles in a single day!

8. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

9. According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart

10. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

11. All bonobo chimpanzees are bisexual!

12. All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

13. All polar bears are left handed

14. All species of beetles are edible

15. All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!

16. All the swans in England are property of the Queen

17. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year!

18. An adult giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.

19. An albatross can sleep while it flies!

20. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.21. An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer

22. An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

23. An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.

24. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

25. Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!     

26. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.act Comments

27. Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.

28. Ants don't sleep

29. Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.

30. Apple seeds are poisonous

31. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

32. Armadillos can get leprosy.

33. At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal

34. At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.

35. At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

36. Baby beavers are called kittens.

37. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

38. Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour!

39. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

40. Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.