Thursday, January 18, 2007

Trees That Wood آرزوهای سه درخت

Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, "Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty."
Then the second tree said, "Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull."
Finally the third tree said, "I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me."
After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, "This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter" ... and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.
At the second tree a woodsman said, "This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard." The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.
When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true. One of the woodsmen said, "I don't need anything special from my tree so I'll take this one", and he cut it down.
When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for. The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying kings had come to an end. The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in the dark. The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams.


Then one day, a man and woman came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time. Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said "Peace" and the storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the King of Kings in its boat.
Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Every body's live's like this people when get to people giving want take difficult thing's

Anonymous said...

My dear teacher , first I want to say something about the story title. If the title in persian is your own choice is ok but if it is the translation of the title in english, I would say " DERAKHTANE AN JANGAL".

By the way I appriciate your stories selaction because there is at least one lesson in each of them! From what I undrestood in this story ,the "HOPE" and "DESTINY" are the most important words in our life. I can say I am absolutely agree with that. thanks for your reminding

Anonymous said...

the trees got their wishes, but in my opinion the 3rd tree had the best wish between them, because it wanted to be nearest thing and closest one to god. It had high wish and he got it. Of course in a sad way! with Jesus death! And the others: the 1st one wanted to fill with a treasure and it filled with real treasure: baby the one who don’t have any fault. The 2nd one: it wanted to became a ship of kings, but it became a bout and it helped the men and release them.

Anonymous said...

If one purpose even a tree him/her purpose isn’t close to God and just has a mundance purpose he cant have a good life and if has a good life he/she cant have a good future life therefore this story show that we should have the best purpose

Anonymous said...

Every one or may be everything ! has some wishes for himself. He has to try for reaching these wishes. There are many different ways for granting those wishes.
But sometimes when we are so hopeless one surprising and incredible happening can grant our wish . Actually that happening grants our wish with different shape but the basis of that doesn't change .I think it's really better we always wish the best first for others and then for ourselves.

Anonymous said...

Everybody has many dreams,such as real,unreal,useful or useless dreams.The best is which make human perfection because bliss is access.

Anonymous said...

When God say to you YES , give you what you want.
When God say : WAIT , he give you better than what you want.
When he say : NO , he is making ready the best thing for you.
Therefor you always reach your wish even better than it.

Anonymous said...

I bielive the purpose of third tree is better than the other trees the purpose of third tree is to attion people should to attion for to come near their object of worship

Anonymous said...

We must have great end . it is perfection and goes to it and close to God because of they are given to life


We understand that god give us blessing and we should use them better in life joys and sorrows with us and we choose joys or sorrows and let go to sorrows and suffering dream a part from worlthy cares and bring use to closer to god with us that make us spirit grow so we must it grows to perfection and to god we should use the blessing and thank the god

Anonymous said...

I think the people should think a bout prefevable goal and they should get thefutile goal a way from theirselves . we should struggle to obtion our goal and we don’t should give up.

Anonymous said...

all of their zream was intersting and beautiful but we think the third tree was better beacuse he wanted to be as close to God as was possible.and it is very good that all of people can be in this way.

Anonymous said...

hi thanks for your story we think
every thinglike people have wish
and try for wish.
every body who work will be awarded.
no pain no gain

Anonymous said...

if people have big wish and they try in this wish after they can arrive to their wish

Anonymous said...

i think evrybody have hopes,never arrive to them, so i have any hopes.(of course i can't)

Anonymous said...

masoom (pbuh):being hopeless is the biggest sin.
this sentece has a very deep meaning and shows that all other sins are caused by hopelessness. because a hopeless person never tries to become better and always remains at the same place.
when we have a goal we have to try our best to reach it and we can be sure that God leads us to the right way and make our dreams come true in the best way(if our dreams dont hurt us)

Anonymous said...

all the time we should ask God to give us ennormous gift
we must not think about low thing. we can reach to our goul with trying, but we must pay attentin to the goul that we choos it.

Anonymous said...

sory mrs nikuie :i donot understand Trees that wood but i how this story is beautiful it is look all your story. i know i donot understand but i try . i like speak english look you i try.

Anonymous said...

there are many trees that donot wish, but they born and grow and cut.and die,forever.

Anonymous said...

i think i can't say about fucher and what thing is better for our self because i don't know about hard day but we can give better way for arived to god with help prophet and we should think about all of thing .

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