Have you ever heard of people who spent more time thinking about a project than they did working on it? Well here is one who does just that. I sit out this morning to pull a planter stand out of the ground only to discover it was not budging. I was able to see it had two legs driven down in the ground. I assumed they were just four or five inches long. I then sat down to think about it. Oh, a long handle screwdriver might work, I thought. Off I go to the shed to get one, but it didn’t do a thing to help. When I forced it under the legs and pried up, it just buried in the ground. I sat down to think some more. Off to the shed I go again. I then found a long crowbar, and began to push it under the legs of the stand. The stand was amidst several large, heavy rocks which made it impossible to get the crowbar under the legs of the stand. Each time I made an attempt to loosen the legs I would then push and pull till I could see they hadn’t budged a bit. Sitting down again somehow I thought maybe the ax might help. It has a blade on one side and a hammer on the other. Every time I got an idea I could hear my dad say, “Oh, shucks, that’s not the way to do that.” Then he so simply solved the problem that others were have trouble with. The ax didn’t help either so I sat back down to think some more. I’m not one to give up easy so I was not giving up. Here I go again more determined than ever to get that stand out of the ground. It was not that important, but I was that stubborn. I guess I had been thinking at least one hour when I decided to try one more thing. The rocks, I had decided, was not going to be moved by me, but like a flash of magic I slipped the curved end of the crowbar under the legs of the stand and the big rock sitting close gave me just enough height to push down, and up came the legs. I had been using the straight end of the crowbar and it slipped off every tine. The curved end couldn’t slip off. The legs of the stand turned out to be 12” long. No wonder I couldn’t get them to budge.
Once again I was reminded of the old saying, “where there is a will there is a way.” The little thing such as pulling up a plant stand is equal to the desire of moving a brick wall out of your path of success. You start by tearing down one brick at a time. The hole will get bigger each time you make an effort. Don’t ever give up, and think yourself defenseless. No matter how many times you have to sit down and think about it, the solution is very near. Make up your mind what you want, and take action to make it happen. Don’t take another option, stay with the first plan. It was your first idea, and let it remain the first.
God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp
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