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A selection of two seeds

There were two seeds that were left by a careless God outside the wilderness.

By William C BurgessPublished 4 years ago 3 min read

There were two seeds that were left by a careless God outside the wilderness.

There was a barren land, a place where not even weeds would take root. Only a few piles of rocks that wanted to escape but could not, catalyzed by time, slowly removed its armor layer by layer and turned into a pile of dirt slag.

The two seeds are crying out, complaining about God's "carelessness" and feeling sorry for their own misfortune. There was no source of life here, and the two seeds stopped, their throats dried up from the loud cries. Both seeds quieted down.

God took pity on their misfortune, and reflecting on his carelessness, he sent down a sweet rain. Both seeds took advantage of the rain to store up much, much moisture, and took root and sprouted on that pile of dirt and crumbs.

On another sunny day, there seemed to be ten suns in the sky, and the barren earth slowly cracked. One seed began to complain again about the weather, so hot that it used up all the water it had stored yesterday. The other seed was desperately rooting deeper into the soil, absorbing the water stored underground to keep itself alive.

Thus, one seed complained every day and didn't really take root, barely surviving for a while on the occasional rain that fell. Finally, it collapsed on the arid land and blended into the barren earth. The other seed, rooted deep in the soil, stubbornly survived, and finally grew into a gigantic tree, standing above that wilderness, becoming the most gorgeous landscape.

Two different choices, so that two seeds of the same origin on two very different roads, with a different terminal. In the face of life, each of us will also have different choices, different results

Of course, everyone's birth conditions are different. Some people come from wealthy families and have a good family environment. Others come from poor mountainous areas or highlands, where even survival is a problem. So how do we choose our own path?

Is it like this seed? Spending their miserable lives in complaining about why they do not have a good living environment, not born in a good place, without ever thinking about how to make their lives better. Even when they were about to take their last breath, they were still resenting the unfairness of God and ended up hating.

Or is it like this seed? Although he did not come from a better background than others, but has a heart of advancement. He is also greedy, he hopes he can also have what others were born to have, but he will not complain about the unfairness of God, did not give others have but he did not have things, he is on his own to fight and get these he wants.

If it were me, I would choose to rely on my own struggle to get what I want.

Three parts of God's destiny, seven parts rely on hard work. Yes, some things are arranged by God, such as our minds and family environment, which is we can not change the external factors, we choose the road may also be because of these external factors and become bumpy. However, to finish the road, it is up to us. The road is always to walk through. At first, there may be someone to carry you on your back, smooth sailing. But that person will also be tired, will also fall down, that the rest of the road or to walk on their own, and you will feel that those roads are more difficult than they seem, because you have never walked. And at the beginning is to bear it yourself, you will feel that in fact the road is not difficult to walk, because he went through the most difficult part with the motivation, the rest of the road, he will be smooth sailing.

Choice, everyone at every time will have a choice in waiting for them to choose. Choose the right and wrong, not after the choice to complain. After the choice, please walk the path you have chosen. The choice of two seeds gives us one more choice in the future.

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William C Burgess

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