Lessons From The Wheelbarrow
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Ever go to the circus and watch a high wire artist push a wheelbarrow across the wire? You see him do it so you have confidence in his ability to push the wheelbarrow without falling to his death. That's trust. Faith is getting in the wheelbarrow.
Life storms force us into the wheelbarrow and in this book I share with the reader some of the lessons I've learned from my trips in the wheelbarrow.
John Carothers
Christian, Father, Ex-drunk
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Lessons From The Wheelbarrow - John Carothers
Lessons From The Wheelbarrow
Surviving Life’s Storms
Published by John Carothers at Smashwords
Copy 2011 John Carothers
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Chapter One: PROLOGUE
Numbers can be difficult to wrap our minds around. Take the number 4 million; it’s so large that we find it difficult to put it in perspective, how high would a stack of 4 million cheeseburgers be? Now try imagining a stack of 20 million cheeseburgers. See my point? What if instead of cheeseburgers we were talking about 4 million people plunged into poverty in the last year? Or 20 million unemployed or under-employed, or just plain discouraged into despair?
When we’ve got 24 million people added to the ranks of people in poverty and unemployed, the numbers are simply too large to get a handle on. But each one of those 24 million people is in a life storm and they all have a story to tell. How long would it take to listen?
Not since the Great Depression have we seen numbers this stark, we all have friends or family members affected, we know their stories, but there is no way as individuals to grasp the enormity of human suffering out there, there are simply too many stories. Those folks are all going to have to get in the wheelbarrow.
Chapter Two: GET IN THE WHEELBARROW
On a visit to the circus you watch a high-wire artist pushing a wheelbarrow across a wire suspended one hundred feet in the air without a net. Because you see him do it, after a few minutes you become convinced he has the needed athletic skills and sense of balance to push the wheelbarrow across a high-wire without plunging to his death. That’s trust.
Faith is getting in the wheelbarrow.
For many of us getting in the wheelbarrow is a terrifying prospect, and yet there are often times when there is no choice. The way ahead is not clear and life feels much like driving in a dense fog, or the situation you find yourself in is so overwhelming that no path to serenity can be found. So, trembling and fearful, you get in the wheelbarrow.
Be obedient we’re told, yet obedience is not always the problem. Sometimes the way ahead is not clear and we simply don't know what God wants us to do, if we did we'd be obedient. That’s frequently the problem with obeying God; we just don’t know what His will is in our life. Sure, do not commit adultery, don’t lie, murder, or steal, take care of widows and orphans and feed the poor, these are simple instructions anyone can understand. My boss is insufferable and makes my life miserable to the point of depression but I have children to feed and my wife is sick and we need the health insurance, I can’t quit so what do I do? Or the job is long gone, your