A man was walking down the street when he saw a child trying to catch leaves falling from a large tree. Whenever the boy saw a new leaf drop from high up the tree, he would run quickly to where it fluttered down, but each time he grasped at the tiny-colored jewel, it evaded his hands and fell to the ground. The man walked up to the boy and said, “Why don’t you pick a favorite spot under that tree and wait there and see what happens?” And the boy did find a place, and he waited, and eventually a leaf fell right into his hands. As the man turned to walk away, he heard the tree whisper in his ear, “Thank you…I have been trying to let that child catch his leaf all day long.”
October Parable