3/26/14

One Tick At a Time

A famous watchmaker finished what he considered to be his masterpiece. Carefully, he placed it between two older yet accurate grandfather clocks.

The clock on the left said to the new clock, "I feel for you. You're ticking bravely now, but you'll be exhausted when you get through thirty-three million ticks this year."

"Thirty-three million ticks?" gasped the frightened clock. "I can't do that!" And it shook violently and stopped.

"Don't listen to such trash," said the clock on the right. "You've only got to take one tick at a time. There's no rush. Now, take a tick. And another; and another. Easy now. Isn't that better?"

"Is that all?" asked the new clock. "That's easy. Okay. Here I go!"

And it bravely started ticking once again—one tick at a time. At the end of the year, it reached thirty-three million ticks with no problem.

We don't need to worry about the next hour or day or week. Our Lord simply asks that we trust Him moment by moment—like the clock: one tick at a time.

We often complicate our lives and become overwhelmed and depressed by looking at thirty-three million ticks, rather than one tick.

One of the most difficult tasks for me to do as an incarcerated man is to allow time to tick one tick at at time. Why, you might ask? Because I want to show my family, friends, society, future employer, etc. how much God has done for and to me, and for rehabilitated me to be the predestined man He bore me to be. I'm so anxious to prove how much of a changed man I am; one tick at a time cannot move fast enough.

Rechell Williams #V69138
P.O. Box 5248 A3/17/7
Corcoran, CA 93212

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