20171120 【 Build Bridges - Not Fences 】

Build Bridges - Not Fences
Sometimes it takes a stranger to help

Once upon a time two neighbors who lived on bordering farms had an argument with each other.

Its was the first serious dispute in years of farming side by side.

They had traded labor and goods and shared machinery as needed without a problem.

Their long friendship fell apart.

It began with a small difference of opinion and then grew into a war of words.

It ended with the two no longer speaking to one another.

One morning there was a knock on the door of one of the neighbours.

He opened it and saw a man with a carpenter's toolbox.

"I'm looking for a few days of work,"he said.
"Do you happen to have any work i could do for you?"
"Yes," said the man.

"I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm.
That's where my neighbor lives."