The House on the Hill
Writer Author Colin Cedar Bell
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This story happened somewhere in Asia. Nong was a young boy who lived with his family in a small village. Like most people in the village Nong's family were farmers. But there was one difference between Nong's family and the other villagers. While all the other villagers had their houses next to their fields on the wide plain, Nong's family's house stood on top of a hill. However, since their fields were mostly on the plain below like everybody else's, this meant for Nong's family that every day they had to go up and down the hill to work the fields. During the harvest they had to bring all the harvested rice up the hill to store it in the storehouse. And because the school was also down on the plain it meantfor Nong that every morning he had to go down to the school and every evening he had to climb back up the hill to go home.
One day Nong talked to his father about this. 'It's not fair. I have to walk up and down the hill every day, but my friends don't. Why do we have to live up here on the hill?" Nong's father thought about this for a while before he answered. "I'm not sure why we live here on the hill. Our house has stood here for many generations. I'm thankful for our little house up here. Think of it this way: We are the first to see the sun come up and the last to see it go down." But this didn't mean much to Nong. "But we have to work so much harder than everyone else. And I have to walk much farther than my friends. It's not fair!" "Oh, but we shouldn't say that," Nong's father replied, "God has given us this place and we should be thankful for it."
Yet Nong was not convinced and wished he could live down on the plain. One day not long after this conversation the clouds began to gather in the sky over Nong's village. It was only a few weeks after the rice harvest and so the villagers looked with concern to the sky. But it got only worse. Darker and darker the sky became, and then it happened: The rains came down and wouldn't stop. It rained and rained and rained. The plain and all the fields and houses were flooded, the harvest lost. Nong's house on top of the hill alone was dry. And that's where all the villagers had fled. They were all thankful for Nong's house on the hill and they ate of the rice stored up there. "Now," Nong's father said to Nong with a twinkle in his eyes, "are you thankful for our house on the hill?" Nong only nodded and smiled.
So often we complain about some hardship in our lives, and are tempted to feel life -and therefore God - isn't fair to us. But if we can accept whatever God has allowed to come into our lives and be thankful for it, one day we will see that He can turn our seeming hardship or handicap into a lifesaver for us and others.
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