Fish Fry?
One day I was training for my championship fight I had coming
up. I was running around the edge of thee lake, the water just
seemed to calm my nerves and made the fight seem not so
important.
I just finished my fifth trip around the man made lake and I
could not believe what this man who was fishing was doing, every
time I passed him he would throw back the biggest fish he would
catch and I looked at amazement in his cooler of ice, they were
all fish about five inches?
I thought to myself how strange in five trips around the lake
this had thrown back what sure looked like worth keeping, I mean
10 to 12 inches very different from the five-inch ones he was
keeping. Well I kept passing him, time aftertime he would
through back the big one, and keep the littlest one. I was about
to go crazy, I mean how many angler would throw back the big
ones and keep the little ones? I thought to myself this person
lost his mind!
Finally after four hours of passing this guy by watching him
throw back all the big ones and put the ones from five inches
and under in his bucket of ice.
Hey there I said, how you doing today? He said fine and man I am
killing them, look in my bucket! Yeah you really are killing
them, now I was busting out of seems to ask him what and the
hell our you doing?
Finally, I could take it no more; the more he said that we were
having his best day ever. I said hey I have just wanted to ask
you one question. Go-ahead partner asked me anything you want. I
have been passing you for the last four hours and I have seen
you throw all the biggest fish back? I am a boxer not a
fisherman but all my friends keep all the big ones and throw the
little ones back and you are doing the exact opposite, why and
the hell arte you throwing the big ones back?
He looked at me as if I was a starch raving lunatic and said; do
you see that fire over there? I replied yes why? You see that
frying pan. Sure, what does that have to do with anything? You
see my frying pan is only five inches, so I have to throw all
the ones over five inches back cause they won't fit in my pan, I
hate to throw all the big ones back just as much as you do but
that is the biggest pan I have.
Now before you pass judgment on this man, how many times in your
life have you had that great big idea? I mean that million
dollar idea, or the idea that would actually save hundreds of
life's maybe even millions life's and you said to God hey that's
to big a plan for me! What you are really says is Hey God I only
have a five-inch pan.
Please don't send me any fish over five inches because I can't
see myself with a big huge pan. He was all along running around
you wondering when you would ask for his help and the only
reason he gave you those big ideas is that he knew you could
handle it!
So the next time you catch a big fish, don't throw it back, and
tell God you only have a small pan, because you + God = Enough,
so catch that big fish and step up to the plate and expect the
biggest pan you can hold. Cause if we are to have a fish fry,
then we certainly want to feed everyone we are supposed to!