Gems of Wisdom...Three Bullets...

[Lady Seahawke]

A friend sent me the following and thought it might be uplifting for others currently going through rough seas ...

Three Bullets

There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat.

He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner.

As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it.

The rabbit ran away.

Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel and missed it.

The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree.

As he went further, he saw a large wild 'Tom' turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining.

A voice spoke to him and said, 'Aim high and stay focused.'

However, at the same time, he saw a deer which was a better kill.

He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer. But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him, so he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake.

Still, the voice said again to him, 'I said ' Aim high and Stay focused.'

So, the man decided to listen to the voice.

He aimed the gun high up in the tree and shot the wild turkey.

The bullet passed thru the turkey and killed the deer.

The handle fell off the gun and hit the snake in the head and killed it.

And, when the gun had gone off, it knocked him into a pond.

When he stood up to look around, he had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer and a turkey to eat for his family.

The snake was dead simply because the man listened.

Moral of the story:

Aim and shoot high in your goals, and stay focused.

Never let others discourage you concerning your past. The past is exactly that. 'the past.'

Live every day one day at a time.

Wait, be still and patient and everything else will follow.

FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER