For Heaven's Sake, What are We Doing????

Children's cartoons are simplistic and easy to follow, yet many times you will find a "message" hidden within the story. One of my childhood favorites was the "Road Runner." They did not talk. They just ran about making noises and using "sight" gags to cause uncontrollable laughter from children and adults. The Road Runner would "beep, beep" his way through every trap set up by "Wile. E. Coyote" managing to slip through each danger, only to stop and survey the ridiculous sight of whatever "Acme Company" device was being used as the snare. At one point, in the Coyote's attempts to capture his dinner, he had managed to accumulate a large pile of rocks atop a cliff. His intention was to use a lever to push all the rocks over the edge just in time for them to pile-up on the Road Runner. He sees him coming in the distance, and begins to push and push all those rocks and boulders over the edge. Finally they are all over the side and as he looks down, the Road Runner passes unscathed through the narrow place in the road. Confused, Wile E. goes down to the road, looking up sees all the rocks wedged in a narrow place between two cliffs. He grabs a long pole, standing underneath the rocks, begins to poke at them to loosen them. At that point he pulls out a sign which says, "For Heaven's sake, WHAT am I doing?" About that time, the usual thing happens ... all the rocks fall on him. There he is sticking his head out of this big pile of rocks in utter astonishment at what he has done.
Attitudes are a lot like a pile of rocks over our head. We think we are doing very well with something, yet when we do not get the results we deem appropriate, we begin to poke at people to make them move, only to have the whole thing fall on our own head. We have to stop and ask, "For Heaven's sake, what am I doing?" When we allow certain attitudes to prevail in our life, we are actually tearing down the work we had accomplished. Instead of allowing things to progress naturally, and at God's pace, we begin to poke about and soon those attitudes will collapse on our own head and cause damage we did not intent.