Sisyphus' Boulder in your Shoe? Shake it out!

Ahoy from Amoy! (Historic Xiamen, China).

Muhammed Ali once said, "It isn't the mountains ahead that you have to climb that wear you out. It's the pebble in your shoe." And these pebbles seem like boulders until we shake them out and examine them. Then we marvel at how such tiny things created such great discomfort.

But unless we deal with them, they will plague us like the boulder that Sisyphus was condemned to push up the mountain, only only to have it fall back down and have to start over again every day--for eternity.

That's no way to amend like spend eternity, much less our brief three score and ten! We either shake the boulders out or they will shake us right into the grave--so shake them out. 

 

Better yet, go barefoot for a bit! And like a child (for we are always our Father's child), delight in the feel of grass between your toes. When you're barefoot, pebbles large and small are not as annoying because we don't hold them so closely.  

 

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet not even Solomon in all of his glory was arrayed as one of these."

Enjoy Amoy!

Dr. Bill 
School of Management, Xiamen University
Academic Director, SMXMU OneMBA Program

Matthew 6:25-34-- "Don't Worry!"
  25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

School of Management, Xiamen University
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