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Hiney

by Jerry Ousley  
6/14/2007 / Christian Living

The following story is not original. I heard Mike Warnke tell it a few years ago. If you've heard it please, humor me.

There once was an elderly gentleman who lived in the mountains with his granddaughter. They didn't have much but managed to make ends meet. However one summer they found themselves in dire need of some cash. Their only recourse was to sell their one and only mule named "Hiney."

The elderly gentleman prepared Hiney for the journey down the mountain and when they were ready to go placed his granddaughter on Hiney's back and so they began their journey.

As they passed the first house there were people out on the front porch and the elderly gentleman heard them comment as they passed by, "Look at that! A young, healthy girl riding that mule and that poor old man having to walk!" After they passed the house the elderly gentleman stopped, took his granddaughter off Hiney and climbed up on his back himself. They continued their journey.

As they passed the next house the elderly gentleman overhead someone say, "Look at that! See that old man making that little girl walk? He ought to be ashamed!" So after they had passed by the elderly gentleman stopped and pulled his granddaughter up on Hiney behind him.

The next place they came to the elderly gentleman heard someone say, "That poor old mule! Look at the way they're punishing him by riding double!" So, after they had passed by the elderly gentleman stopped and both he and his granddaughter got off Hiney and continued their journey.

Finally they passed by another house and the elderly gentleman overheard someone say, "That poor, poor mule! Making him walk all the way like that way!" So after they had passed by the elderly gentleman stopped and he and his granddaughter managed to hoist Hiney up onto their shoulders and they precariously continued their journey.

As they walked down the mountain trying to balance Hiney over their heads they came to a bridge. Crossing the bridge the elderly gentleman stumbled on a loose rock and tried to keep from falling but in the process accidentally dropped Hiney over the side of the bridge. Poor, poor Hiney!

Of course, the moral of this story is that if you listen to everyone else sooner or later you're bound to lose your Hiney! Listen to God instead!

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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