BALANCE
Recently before I got my waterline run from the road I had to transport water to my property for the camper, plants, animals and construction needs.
I bought a 550 gallon water tank and sat in on my 16′ trailer. I filled it up at the concrete plant and headed home.
The 20 minute trip took over an hour! The trailer fish-tailed so badly I almost lost control of the truck! I stopped by a gas station and the gentleman at the next pump (a local I’m sure is on farmersonly.com) offered his advice.
“<<>> I betcher havin’ trouble pullin’ hit, aintchu? <<>> yometelluwhy?” I nodded.
“Hit’s too fer back! <<>> Scooter up towards the front. Setter right cheer over the axles. She’s gotta be balanced iffn ye wanna puller more ‘an 5 miles an air.” <<>>
Be shore an keeper on the hitch til she’s empty! <<>> iffn ye don’t, that there tongue’ll go straight up in the air like seesawing with a fat boy!<<>>” ( for those of you who may be interested in how he learned this lesson, he grew up with an overweight cuzzin his mother made him play with. His Daddy built them a seesaw and gave it to them one year for Christmas. They were very poor and it was the only present they got that year. He didn’t have any friends but his cousin would come over to play and every time they got on the Seesaw he just sat there up in the air looking down at his cousin who was sitting on the ground. For those of you who are wondering how the cousin is doing now, when he got to be a teenager he fell in love with a skinny girl and it Inspired him to lose weight. He worked out really hard and lost 150 pounds without an operation or going on the TV shows about losing weight. Everyone was so proud of him in the whole family. They had a beautiful wedding and as soon as she said “I DO” he went back to eating. He is now Fat again and everyone is thankful that they do not have a SEE-SAW! LOL LOL)
I had already figured out I had it positioned too close to the back. I was thankful he told me about the see-saw!
BALANCE
Webster says Balance is the state of having your weight spread equally so that you do not fall. : the ability to move or to remain in a position without losing control or falling. : a state in which different things occur in equal or proper amounts or have an equal or proper amount of importance.
I have spent the last several years bringing some Balance into my life. I was WAY out of balance in my thinking in so many ways.
The main problem was that I had never learned to question, research, listen to my heart and draw my own conclusions. I was a puppet who believed everything I was told by preachers, friends in my circle of people who were all like me and radio talk show hosts. I had very few original opinions.
I tripped, fell and landed facedown in pig-sh#@ some years ago and was so surprised to see those I thought to be friends and family respond to me with the “left-foot of fellowship.”
My TRUTH set me FREE from most of my world.
Alone, I began to question EVERYTHING!
I have drawn MANY conclusions that are very different from the way I used to believe.
BALANCE
That is a real key to safety and progress in hauling heavy loads. We need to think more about Balance in our lives beginning in the center of our soul.
I have learned to question things I used to believe.
I have made a decision not to believe anything I’m told, little that I read and half of what I see! Lol
All information must be filtered by inspiration.
My heart knows the truth and I’m learning to let my heart lead me.
Every human has the ability to Center themselves.
YOU can spend time in thought, prayer and meditation and draw honest, truthful conclusions.
YOU can lay to rest untruths that have you unbalanced.
YOU can start TODAY and bring peace and plenty to your world.
Get in touch with reality, spirit, truth and honesty that is found in the process of centering.
Everything is not black and white. (That idea originates from the knowledge of the tree of good and evil.) I have found more truth and peace in the gray!
Don’t compromise what you believe. QUESTION what you believe! Set aside everything you learned second-hand. Start over!
The TRUTH is a TREASURE you discover, WITHIN!
Robert Rutherford