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Helen Marie Szollosy encourages readers to take a fresh look at life. She advises people on how to see life situations from a perspective of gratitude and flexibility.
Chicken? Flexibility and Gratitude!
Written by Helen Marie Szollosy, Community blogger | May 8, 2012 11:22 AM
- Comments : 4
Why did the chicken fall off the truck?
So she wouldn't have to cross to the other side! *ba dump bump!
Ever worried about taking that 'Leap with Faith"? Why? Faith is fun! Just take her hand and leap!
I learned that lesson from a pet chicken my family aquired, back when I was a pre-teen.
One day, my dad came home with a live chicken! He had been driving down Eisenhower Boulevard, in Harrisburg PA, and saw the chicken (No! not trying to cross the road! HA HA) walking along the side of the road. He figured it had fallen off a truck that was transporting chickens to 'their fate'! He said: 'If that chicken is still there when I'm heading home, I'm going to stop and pick it up.
Well! The rest is history! 'Chickie' became the family pet! My dad was thrilled when Chickie laid her first egg! He had set up a nice nest in the garage, and later got really creative, making a ramp and higher nest for Chickie! Chickie had a Condo!
Every morning, my dad would come into the house, thrilled, to have received a fresh egg from Chickie! I was amazed when I saw that Chickie could Walk Up the Back Steps from the garage to the kitchen door! I never knew chickens could handle steps! (Laugh Out Loud!)
Chickie would come to the kitchen door; because she would smell the food my mom was cooking. One day, I took some grapes out to Chickie, held them out while standing on the kitchen doorstep, and Chickie JUMPED up and took the grape! What a great pet! Chickie could jump for grapes!
Chickie lived a long life! Chickie lived to lay over 100 eggs! Yes! My dad kept count! No, chickie was not consumed.
So what is the moral of this story? If chickie had remained on the truck with the other chickens, she may not have survived that day! As it was, Chickie took a LEAP WITH FAITH! As a result, she got to live the high life!
Chickie didn't go along with the crowd, Chickie was Flexible and went for the Gratitude!
Chickie didn't cross the road, nor did she 'cross to the other side' at a young age.
Are you pondering whether to take that leap with faith? Faith is fun and loves to jump for grapes, uh ... I mean leap!
Break away from the herd, pack, or is it a flock of chickens? Norm is 'for the birds', jump off the one-directional truck and take a new road! Perhaps a good samaritan will help you out, along the way?
Take that leap with faith, and perhaps you'll later find that attitude of gratitude! It's a lesson I'm learning right now.
Who knew a life lesson could be learned from a brave chicken?
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Betsy
2012-05-08 13:55
Loved your story. And you combined Tuesdays are for Flexibility and Wednesdays are for Gratitude in a single blog. Now, if your hen had been PUSHED off the truck, you could include Fridays are for Forgiveness. And of course the grape episode, again from the hen's point of view, embraces Weekends are for Chocolate and all things you enjoy doing. Don't forget your father's act of kindness to rescue the hen (Thursdays are for Kindness).
That leaves Mondays are for Compliments. That's where my comment comes in. To repeat, Love your blog!
Ha Ha Helen
2012-05-08 21:00
Yes! there's a lot more between the lines! Like letting go of Peer Pressure, releasing the Peer Fear and becoming Peer Positive! Stories and parables are for looking between the lines to see what each person can take from it! Thanks for reading, appreciating and see more than was 'before' you! Living in the suburbs, it was a real adventure and educational experience for me! In appreciation. :-)
Mookie
2012-05-08 22:53
Lines, I remember lines. The line I was in leading to the chicken coop. "No, don't worry, nothing will happen to you.", when I asked why I heard loud clucking. Mr. Tweedy and Mrs. Tweedy would demand we lay eggs, so many eggs! Next thing you know some American Rooster comes in, saying we deserve freedom. We see The Tweedys begin to make a machine that would make chicken pot pie. We hatch a plan to escape, with help from the rooster, who has been lying to us and saying that he can fly when he just got shot out of cannons for a living! The nerve of him! We decide to forgive him b/c we really need to get out of the coop. Long story short, we all escaped..BARELY after knocking out Mr. Tweedy. We are now living happily in a bird sanctuary. So if you have faith, one day you could also be rescued by an American rooster who will make sure you don't turn into chicken pot pie. Faith is awesome!!!!
Ha Ha Helen
2012-05-09 00:00
Mookie - Chickie salutes you! A heroes tale! Releasing the fear! Yes!