FROM ABOVE

A man goes out on his balcony overlooking the sidewalk of a busy Manhatten street. He gets locked out of his apartment without his cell phone or a coat. But he does have a pocket full of money.

He throws $20 bills off the balcony, hoping people will look up and hear his cries for help as they see money falling from the sky.

He throws the money down, and people scoop it off the sidewalk without looking up or hearing him. Instead, they all walk away with their newfound cash. 

He then reaches into a planter filled with pebbles. He grabs a handful of the small stones and sends them over the balcony rail.

Now the people are looking up, they see the man and hear his cries for help but react differently than expected. The growing crowd of agitated people are screaming and cursing him.

The police arrive on the scene, go into his building, access his apartment, and go out onto the balcony with guns drawn. 

The man says to the officers, "Thank you for coming. I have been stranded here for hours." 

The moral of this story is that sometimes, when God sends down blessings, we take the abundance and the prosperity, and we walk off without looking up to the source of all blessings to say, thank You, God.

But when God sends down a rock — a challenge, a headache, or a problem, we suddenly look up to God with our complaints. It shouldn't take a problem to look up to the heavens. We should always thank God for all our experiences in life.