The Doll Maker

In a little village, there lived a crafts man named Bun, who made wooden dolls for children. Bun was so naturally gifted in his handwork that his fame spread to all the neighboring villages. People from all over the region came to buy wooden dolls from him or bring their broken dolls for repairs. He carefully studied the broken dolls and looked for the best way to mend it such that it looked exactly the way it was when he first made it.

Bun had a little daughter for whom he made a very beautiful doll on her tenth birthday. The little girl was so much in love with her little doll that she always played with it along with her friends. One day while playing with the doll, the wooden doll broke and the little girl cried and ran to her father with the broken doll. When she got to him, she complained that her doll's arm broke while she was playing with it.

The father took time to listen to her complaints and then told her to leave the doll with him and come back later for it. The little girl said, "No daddy, you don't understand, all I want you to do is carve out another arm and polish it, and then use some glue or nail and join it back. That's all!!"

The father still tried to explain to her to leave the doll with him and come back after sometime for it because he made the doll and he knows how best to mend it when it is broken. The little grew impatient and said to her father, "Daddy, you are not doing it the way I want, you are too slow." With that statement the little girl grabbed the doll and left her father's workshop. The father called after her but she wouldn't come back.

Like that little girl, most of us take our problems to God and try to dictate how He should solve them. We often fail to realize that God made us and He understands how best to handle all our daily problems if left at his doorstep. Also we lack patience and want our problem solved immediately. We should hang on to the faith that God answers are prayers in His good time and in a way that is best for us.