Stones can be problematic. It’s no secret. Here are just a few examples of how stones can cause trouble:
- Toe stubbing
- Tripping
- Landscaping issues
- Scrapes if you fall on them/break skin
- Hard to garden – plants have to work around them for nutrients and growth
- Easily mistaken for potatoes in a mound of dirt
- Get bundled up with your bag of dried beans
- People use them to stone you when you mess up
- They’re uncomfortable for sitting or kneeling
- Water runs off of them, so more flooding in rocky areas as opposed to a softer soil area
- Erosion – good soil is washed away
- They block the way (eg, in your kidneys) – impassable roads
- They don’t taste well (eg, in your tonsils)
- Rocks + momentum + trajectory + automobile = cracked windshield
- Rocks + momentum + trajectory + lawnmower = broken window, dinged car, stones imbedded in face
- They can kill you in the hands of a shepherd boy (eg, David vs. Goliath)
- They are not easily persuaded to be or do anything
- Problematic for spacecraft
- Meteors hitting Earth = not so good, usually (eg, the Dinosaurs)
What stones are in your life?
What rocks have rendered your path impassable?
From my heart to yours,
I believe I have lived under the pretense that no stone is to be left unturned and stumbling blocks are but leaps of faith. When I read the questions you posed, I had to think how fortunate I am to have lived life as a warrior I may not have collected a lot of people, but I’m not carrying around any rocks either. Very thought provoking write.