DONKEY

One of the clearest ways to show you understand the concept of depositing into the lives of others is this:  Attack the problem, not the person.

Attacking problems is depositing into people.  Attacking people is withdrawing.

In the early days of the American West, horses and donkeys often strayed from wagon trains and roamed wild on the prairie.  When they did, their enemies became wolves which would attack in packs.

Horses and donkeys, it turns out, responded differently.

'BE A DONKEY.'

As wolves came near, the horses would circle up with their heads facing outward.  They'd kick their hind legs, but just ended up kicking each other.

The donkeys circled too, but they faced inward and would kick the wolves instead of each other.

Marriages - relationships - families are bound to experience conflict.  Wolves will attack.  The question is, when they do - when problems come - will the marriage, will the relationship, will the family behave like horses and kick each other or behave like donkeys and kick the enemy together?

I know you'd rather be a horse than a donkey, but not in this case.  Be a donkey.  Be a whole family of donkeys.

And be blessed.