a missed blessing.

When I was reading my Bible this morning, my mind went to a memory that, quite frankly, I hadn’t thought of in quite a while.  When I was a child, I remember watching cartoons, like most normal children do and I recall one cartoon in particular.  The segment was of a mother hen who had two or three chicks and they were all alone.  She had the large task of having to plant her field of corn for that year and needed help doing so.  She searched high and low to find help with this endeavor and came across a pig.  This pig was in a reasonably good mood, as he was whistling when she approached him.  She asked if he would be so kind as to help her plant her corn and the pig complained of having a stomach ache and that he, in his current position could not help her with planting the seed for the anticipated crop.

She later came across a duck and was in desperate need of assistance with this project and asked if he would be willing to help.  The duck, quacking and skipping as he crossed her path soon started to complain of a headache and that he would be unable to assist her in this chore.  The hen, upset and saddened that her barnyard companions were unwilling to help her, went back to her house and gathered her chicks and proceeded to plant the seed themselves.

That following Fall, the hen awoke one morning to find a plentiful harvest waiting for it to be picked and eaten.  She then again, went to both the pig and the duck and asked if they would be willing to help her pick the corn.  Once more, the barnyard porker and the duck complained of the same symptoms together.  At this, mother hen went away with yet another large burden on her shoulders as she would need to pick the corn herself.

Once the corn was inside her storehouse, she decided to cook and boil up some of her crop.  She then realized that she had too much and wanted to know if anyone would be willing to come and eat corn with her and her chicks.  The pig and the duck were suddenly feeling completely better and decided that they would love to help themselves to some of the corn.  The hen stopped both part-time friends and stated that she thought they were too sick to plant and harvest the corn and if this was the case then they were too sick to eat any corn and sent them on there way with medicine.

Now, the bottom line to this is that many people want the blessing of God without having to do any of the work.  What many people fail to realize is that there is bountiful blessing awaiting us in the hard sayings and the hard work of Jesus.  This, I feel is where we can grow the most in our faith.

Blessed and being a blessing.

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