Flying over the swamp
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If you feel that life has no meaning, that problems are crushing you, sinking, burning, etc. So I recommend that you memorize this story:
“A bird that lived resignedly in a rotten tree in the middle of the swamp, had gotten used to being there, ate mud worms and was always dirty by the pestilential mud.
Its wings were rendered useless by the weight of the dirt, until one day a great wind destroyed its lair; the rotten tree was swallowed by the silt and he realized that he was going to die.
In a sudden desire to save himself, he began to flap his wings hard to take flight, it took him a lot of work because he had forgotten how to fly, but he faced the pain of numbness until he managed to get up and cross the wide sky, finally reaching a fertile forest. and beautiful.”
Trouble is like the gale that has destroyed your lair and is forcing you to take flight or die.
It’s never too late. No matter what has been lived, no matter the mistakes that have been made, no matter the opportunities that have been missed, no matter how old we are, we are always on time to say ENOUGH, to hear the call that we have to seek the perfection, to shake off the silt and fly HIGH and far from the swamp.
Leave the save and comfortable way. Take the uncertain route, full of enigmas and insecurities, and do it alone. God will accompany you and tell you which path to take.
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