Obstacles

An old farmer had plowed around a large rock in one of his fields for years. Hehad broken several plowshares and a cultivator on it and had grown rather morbidabout the rock.

After breaking another plowshare one day, and remembering all the trouble therock had caused him through the years, he finally decided to do something about it.

When he put the crowbar under the rock, he was surprised to discover that it wasonly about six inches thick and that he could break it up easily with asledgehammer. As he was carting the pieces away he had to smile, remembering allthe trouble that the rock had caused him over the years and how easy it wouldhave been to ged rid of it sooner.

-Brian Cavanaugh