The old lady owned a lot of farmland.
But not being a farmer herself, she had an idea: she’d offer it to friends with caravans. They could come and park their mobile homes and stay on her land for free, when they were able to get away.
And this they did, year after year, enjoying the country air.
But then came the time when the old woman could no longer look after her land, and decided to sell some of it off… including the field with the caravans.
Then the trouble started. The caravan owners were furious: this was their field!
It was a difficult time for the old woman, her friends so angry with her… but it had never been more than a year-by-year arrangement.
How quickly we begin to assume things… how quickly a gift becomes something we regard as a right: our health, our job, our status, our home, our friends.
Today we’ll live the gift of now, feel the gratitude of now and assume nothing about tomorrow.
Our caravan might be moved on.
