Once upon a time there was a peasant who thought that if he could make the weather, things would be much better. “The grain will ripen faster,” he thought, “and there will be more grains in the ears.”
God saw his thoughts and said to him:
- Since you think you know better when what weather is needed, control it yourself this summer.
The peasant was very happy. He immediately wished for sunny weather. When the ground dried up, he wished that it would rain at night. The grain grew like never before. Everyone could not get enough of it, but the peasant thought: “Great, everything is good this year - both the weather and the harvest. I have never seen such ears of corn in my life.”
In the autumn, when the field turned yellow, the peasant went to collect the harvest. But imagine his disappointment: the ears of corn were all empty! He collected only straw.
And again this peasant began to complain to God that the harvest was worthless.
“But you ordered the weather according to your wishes,” answered the Creator.
“I sent rain and sun in turn,” the peasant began to explain. - I did everything right. I can’t understand why the ear is empty?
- And you forgot about the wind! That's why nothing happened. Wind is needed to transfer pollen from one spikelet to another. Then the grain is fertilized, and a good full ear is obtained, and without this there will be no harvest.
The peasant felt ashamed, and he thought: “It’s better to let the Lord himself control the weather. We will only confuse everything in nature with our “wisdom.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru