Bravery in Your Decisions

🎧 Listen to the original message in Spanish from La Jardinera

In a very distant country, there lived a great emperor, or rather, a genie, because it is true that we are far from the country of genies, the country of illusions, where Aladdin always granted wishes.

But in this country yes, there was a genie, and he said:

The maiden who crosses the largest rice paddy or wheat field without turning around, without deviating from the straight path, simply moving forward and choosing the largest and fullest ear, the plumpest, the one that is full of grains of wheat. Whoever finds that one, I'll grant her a wish and it will be as big and as beautiful as the spike she finds.

This field of wheat was large and there were great, beautiful ears and they were already so full and full that they were all already bending over because they were so magnificent, a magnificent field.

One of the maidens raised her hand and said: Me, me, me!

All right, remember what I said, you just have to go through the wheat field, you don't have to go back, you don't have to turn off, just go straight ahead and look and when you find the biggest and fullest ear, you take it, you give it to me and I will give you the wish, whatever you want. Everything, everything will be for you.

The happy, happy maiden began to walk, began to walk and looked, from one side, from the other, from one side, from the other, in front of her and thought:

Above all, don't turn around, don't turn around, don't go back, continue, continue. Do not deviate, go straight, look looking, look looking.

But all the spikes were big, beautiful

And she said: I have to find the best one, I am sure I will find it, I believe in it and I will have my wish.

Looking, looking, looking, she kept going, going, going until she got to where the genie was. She had already traversed the entire wheat field and when she finished she realised that she had nothing in her hand, that she had not picked up one. And she looked at the genie and he said:

Give me the spike, let's see what size it is and how big it is.

And she said:

"It's just that I didn't know which one to choose, they were all so beautiful, so big, that I didn't know, I didn't know exactly which one to choose, which one to take, and it's gone by so fast, that I've already crossed the field and I've realised that he had none.

Then Aladdin, the genie told her: "I'm sorry beautiful maiden but if you haven't brought what I asked you for, I can't fulfill your wish."

And the maid began to give a thousand explanations.

But she said, "No, you haven't brought it."

My dear seeds, the story of this genie is the story of us every day. When we have to make a decision we don't know, we doubt, we doubt because we don't know exactly.

If they ask us:

What do you want to do tomorrow?

"Don't know"

And in a year?

“Oops! No, no, I don't know."

And in five years?

"No, it's too far, either, I don't know."

But what do you really want?

"Well I do not know."

It is the response of the maiden, seeing so much wheat I doubt, she was looking but she did not know, because she did not want to take responsibilities or choose what she wanted. That is why in life, today, the same thing happens to us.

How many times have I asked:

“What would you do if you had a house or a chalet?”

“I would abandon it!” "I would feel like in a jail!” "Wow, I wouldn't like that"

"No, not at all" "I don't know what I want"

But life teaches us above all that time passes very quickly, it teaches us that if we don't know how to choose we lose great opportunities, that if we don't dare to jump into the water we will never know if we know how to swim, and if we don't dare to say what we like it or what we don't like we will always be a leaf in the wind, that will take it from one side to the other and it will never have anything and when it realises, time will have passed and then it will be too late and the genie will will say:

You are already an old man or an old woman, if you want I can give you a cane to walk or a wheelchair to move forward.

Don't forget my seeds, especially the young ones, if we think too much... the rice is gone, it's gone. And if we don't know what we want or we don't want responsibility, we will go in circles and we will not find our axis, which is the Light and the Master of Tiberias.

With all my love,

Your Jardinera