On Saturday when I was out shoveling the driveway to keep myself busy I was thinking about how I could liken the shoveling of the driveway to repentance.
It snowed earlier in the week and it didn't get shoveled but it did get driven on so when it snowed again there was a thick layer of ice under the snow. The snow on top was really easy to get off but to get the ice off (using my plastic snow shovel) took a lot of work. I would turn it over and scrape or pound it to break up the ice then shovel off the chunks. It was long hard work but it was working. Then Steve drove by and saw me out there using my plastic snow shovel to get the ice off the driveway. Apparently it was pretty funny and he said he could either laugh at me all day or come help. Of course Steve came right over with his gloves and a flat head metal shovel. He told me to clear off the top layer of snow then he would come behind me break up the ice and then I would clear the chunks away. The process was much faster and not just because there were two of us but because we had the right tools to do the right jobs.
So the parable is that the ice and snow were like sin. The longer they went the harder to remove it was and it just kept piling up. With repentance I could do it on my own and get the job done but once I had the right tools and someone helping me with the process (priesthood leader) it was much faster and easier.
These are just the things I think about when shoveling snow I guess....
1 comment:
THAT is an amazing parable. You are going to share with your YW, right? It will get thiem thinking about it for the rest of the season and every winter following.
You'll have to come up with something else for the rest of the year :P
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