Rake in The Green of Life’s Freedom

Miracle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:01:45 +0000

Raking leaves is like life. The harder you work, the more crap will fall on you.

Art of Raking Leaves

I raked leaves this weekend.. all by myself. I can toot my own horn because I received no help from the family. I even think they laughed at me while watching with binoculars. I could hear the chuckles as I awkwardly gathered leaves into a laundry basket.

After 6 cumulative hours and 3 afternoons I could see the green lawn again..

Raking leaves drained the life out of me and it wouldn’t ever get finished! I looked into the yard every 20 minutes and couldn’t see the slightest bit of progress, but I had no choice. I had to rake.

and rake..

and rake.

15 filled trash cans later, I looked around and it still didn’t seem to make a dent. Then, all of a sudden on Saturday evening with storm clouds brewing above, I emptied the final trash can full of leaves over the neighbor’s fence and glanced around..

I was finished.

Raking Away the Mess of Life

When it comes to raking leaves, you know that eventually you will finish. you just have to be patient and persistent. One pull of the rake didn’t seem like much against the monstrosity of a yard. But with consistent swipes of the rake, the yard was fully raked.

This is similar to life.

Life seems impossible to clean up in the middle of any hard situation. Especially in financial hardships like we all are struggling through these day. The bills keep falling like leaves all around us and the debt collectors begin to drown us with their collective noise. You take a swipe at all the mess and begin to see a clearing, but then more leaves fall upon the ground.

What can you do?

Do the same thing as raking leaves. You just keep raking. The freedom comes when we have the faith that if your patient and committed to making the right financial decision at every choice given to you.

Your life will be green again (pun intended).

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Miracle — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:40:20 +0000

We all know that it is important to help improve our global community by giving to those in need. Many times, we will give a young lady in a white shirt an umbrella to walk across the street in the pouring rain. Other times, we give our extra Egg Mcmuffin to the homeless man standing outside the McDonalds. We don’t mind being charitable in this fashion. It is easy.

What about the rest of the time?

In the first examples, we weren’t worried about the one in need of help taking advantage of us. We had complete control, and we didn’t lose anything of major value. Money is different. We’ve all heard the stories of fraud and horrible money management when it comes to charity organizations.

Who Should we trust?

Purpose Of Charity Concerns