One day, three men were hiking and unexpectedly came upon a
large raging, violent river. They needed to get to the
other side, but had no idea of how to do so.
The first man prayed to God, saying, “Please God, give me
the strength to cross this river.” Poof! God gave him big
arms and strong legs, and he was able to swim across the river
in about two hours, after almost drowning a couple of times.
Seeing this, the second man prayed to God, saying, “Please God,
give me the strength ..and the tools to cross this river.”
Poof! God gave him a rowboat and he was able to row across the
river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a couple
of times.
The third man had seen how this worked out for the other two, so
he also prayed to God saying, “Please God, give me the strength
and the tools…and the intelligence… to cross this river.”
And poof! God sent a woman down. She looked at the map,
hiked upstream a couple of hundred yards, then walked across the
bridge.
- lau jee ker lau gal *
