The Traveller
A traveller journeying through a small village came
upon some workers building an impressive structure.
"What are you doing?" he asked. The first worker, a
young, impatient man, replied in disgust, "I'm making
three dollars an hour and I'm getting very tired!"
The visitor asked another man the same question.
"I'm mixing concrete, as you can plainly see,"
came the sarcastic reply.
Finally, a woman working nearby left her wheelbarrow
full of bricks and approached the stranger. "We are
building a hospital," she said with pride. "Now we will
be able to care for all the region's people. Babies will
be born here. Lives will be saved."
The stranger looked at the woman with admiration and
spoke directly to her. "I know, for this is my hospital.
Only you hold the vision of what it is you are creating."
The wealthy benefactor then put the woman in charge of
construction so his hospital would be built by one who
truly understood.
Will I see the importance of even
the small things I do today?
