Are you sure of the result always?

Does it do a person good to have some doubts at times?

Here is a story that may give you insight about making final conclusions.

There lived an old farmer who had worked on his fields for many, many years. One day, his horse bolted away. His neighbors dropped in to offer condolences to him. “What awful luck,” they exclaimed sympathetically, to which the farmer only replied, “We’ll see.”

Next morning, to everyone’s surprise, the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How amazing is that!” they exclaimed in excitement. The old man replied, “We’ll see.”

A day later, the farmer’s son tried to mount one of the wild horses. He was thrown on the ground and broke his leg. Once more, the neighbors came by to express their sympathies for this stroke of bad luck. “We’ll see,” said the farmer politely.

The next day, the village had some visitors – military officers who had come with the purpose of drafting young men into the army. They passed over the farmer’s son, thanks to his broken leg. The neighbors patted the farmer on his back – how lucky he was to not have his son join the army! “We’ll see,” was all that the farmer said!

We don’t know where the road of life will take us, do we?

However, we do have options as to how we perceive the outcome, don’t we?