Thefollowing is an excerpt from
PTSD: Pathways Through the Secret Door (Paperback)
by Timothy Kendrick
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Lulu.com (July 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430313196
ISBN-13: 978-1430313199
I would like to tell you a great story about focusing on the solution instead of the problem.
This story is about a minister who on Saturday morning was trying to prepare a sermon under difficult conditions. It was a rainy day and his son was restless and bored. Finally, in desperation, the minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to a large brightly colored picture that showed a map of the world. He tore the page from the magazine ripped it into little bits and threw the scraps all in to the living room floor with the words:
“Johnny, if you can put this all together I’ll give you a quarter.” The preacher thought this would take Johnny most of the morning. However, within ten minutes there was a knock on his study door. It was his son with the completed puzzle. The minister was amazed to see Johnny finished so soon, with the pieces of paper arranged and the map of the world back in order.
“Son, how did you get that done so fast?” the preacher asked. “Oh said Johnny, “It was easy.” On the other side, there was a picture of a man. I just put a piece of paper on the bottom, put the picture of the man together, put a piece of paper on the top, and then turned it over. I figured if I got the man right, the world would be right.”
The minister smiled and handed his son a quarter. “And you’ve given me my sermon for tomorrow, too,” he said. “If a man is right, his world will be right.” If you are unhappy with your world and you want to change it, the place to start is with yourself. The solution lies within.
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I would like to tell you a great story about focusing on the solution instead of the problem.
