Caring
woman and a crack pot
Please take out some time to read this story.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was
perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long
walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing
home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of
its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made
to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it
spoke to the woman one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of
myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back
to your house.”
The old woman smiled, “Did you notice that
there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?” “That’s because I have
always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the
path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have
been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you
being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”
~~~ Thinking Time ~~~
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and
flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and
rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for
the good in them. Flaw is natures law.It is like a knife. It cuts vegetables
may also cut the fingers. It all depends on how we make use of it.
