In a Slow Market Thinking You Can
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“Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. ‘I think I can-I think I can-I think I can-I think I can…’ until at last they reached the top of the mountain. ‘Hurray, hurray.’” A daughter was reading these words to her father who was dying. Yes. You saw it right. It was: “The Little Engine That Could” (by Watty Piper) she was reading. And in the hospital room during the times of increased pain where her father wasn’t doing very well, the daughter would read and her father would listen. And he would squeeze her hand to make it just a little bit longer – a little bit longer. ******* Prior to his death, the father told his daughter to go back to school and finish her degree. She said it was too hard. After all, she was so busy with her family and other things. The father smiled and said, “Let me tell you the story about a train that couldn’t get over a mountain.” His daughter would go on to get that degree. ******* I like that story. What makes it all the more moving is it’s true. I actually came across it on a book review website (of all places). The daughter of the dad who died was writing a review about “The Little Engine That Could” and this was her story. And I couldn’t help but think it’s just so good in a slow market time when all the news about real estate coming out, it can seem like it’s bleaker and bleaker still. It’s in these kinds of times that I think stories of others and how they faced their challenges are all the more helpful. And maybe you could go back and read “The Little Engine That Could” to your child or grandchild - or maybe just to yourself? I know it sounds crazy. But it worked for one dad who was dying and then for his girl who needed to entrust him to God’s hands and, after that, go back to college. It’s those that think they can that end up crossing impossible mountains.
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