How You Choose to See Things

Three men were laboring in a field of boulders and large stones. Sweat ran from their foreheads as they swung their heavy picks again and again. A curious passer-by approached the men and asked each what he was doing. The first man answered in a stern and abrupt voice: Can't you see I'm breaking rocks! The second man replied in a matter of fact way: Can't you see I'm earning my salary! The third man smiled - his eyes gleaming with enthusiasm- and proclaimed: Can't you see I'm helping to build a cathedral! I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. Charles Swindoll