another post

i have been posting like crazy. but i have had some awsome peaces of gods comformation of him loving and healing. this one is wasome. a friend wrote this to encourge me. i am so blessed to have people who love me. so i wnat to share this

The Parable of the Wasteful Woman

A woman went to the well for water each day. After a long while, her water jar became cracked. Being poor, she began to save money to buy a new one. The crack became progressively worse. Water leaked from the crack as she made her way from the well back to her home. So much water leaked from the jar that she began to make two trips to the well each day in order to have enough water, then three trips, then four trips. Many of the town people chastened her for wasting their water. For a drought had come over the land, and each week they had to go deeper into the well for the water source. When the king came to survey the land, the town people begged the woman not to go to the well on that day. They did not want the king to see her wastefullness. The king saw that the ground was cracked and dry and began to ask the people how the livestock were surviving since there was no grass and little water. They told the king that they did not know, and that they thought it was a miracle from God. The king puzzled over this as he went to stay the night at the local inn. He could not sleep that night, and was looking out over the town from his upper window. He began to notice that all the animals were walking in the same direction. Curios, he got dressed and followed the animals. He discovered that all the animals were gathered along a certain path. As he looked more closely, he saw that they were grazing upon herbage which was growing along the path. He followed the path to the house of the woman, and knocked on her door. She answered the door and explained to the king about the broken water jar. The king, however, did not chastize the woman for her wastefullness. He blessed the woman because she had unknowingly become the salvation of the town. After the king had gone, the town people heard that the woman had been visited by the king. They were terribly embarrassed as they knew that the king had noticed her wastefullness. They knew that the king would be returning through their town several weeks later as he went back to his palace, so they decided that if they could remedy the situation of the woman's wastefullness then maybe the king would send relief resources to their town. The town elder bought the woman a new water jar. The woman was happy that she did not have to make several trips to the well each day and that she would no longer be chastized by the town people, and she began using the new jar immediately. The livestock slowly began to die. When the king returned, they told him that the situation with the wasteful woman had been remedied, and asked the king for help because their livestock were now dying and they too would surely die. The king replied, "You have rejected your only salvation, you will now surely die. But this woman will come with me and all that is mine will be shared with her."