I came across this powerful true story and wanted to share it with you…
George Danzig was a grad student in the mathematics department. He informed the grad students about an exciting opportunity. Whoever got the best grade on the final could be hired as his research assistant for the following year.
That job was a plum job. Everybody wanted the job. George said that he studied so hard for that test. He was up until the middle of the night. Then he overslept and was actually late to the test.
He got there in time to take the test. He was handed the test and went to the back of the room. As he was answering the eight math questions, he got through the eight math questions fairly easily. When he looked on the blackboard and there were two problems on the board. He copied them down and he began to work on those two problems and he couldn’t solve them.
He began to think that somebody in this room is going to solve these problems. What’s wrong with me? He kept working and working and working on the problems. He couldn’t get them solved. By the end of the time that was allowed, some of the students asked for additional time to work.
The professor said they could take the test home and bring it back by Friday. George, too, asked for more time. He said just to bring the test back by Friday.
He went home and sat up night after night. This was Monday. All day Tuesday. Tuesday night. Wednesday and Wednesday night.
He just kept thinking somebody is going to get these solved. Why not me? Why not me? Finally by Thursday morning he had one of them solved. Then he kept working, working, working late into Thursday night and on Friday morning he solved the second one.
He took the test back and got it turned in by eleven am, which was the deadline. He went home wondering what would happen. Sunday morning at seven am there was a knock, knock, knock at his door.
He jumps out of bed. It’s his professor. His professor says ‘George, you’ve make mathematical history! I was thinking on the way over here, you were late to the test right?’
George said ‘Well yeah, did I do something wrong?’
‘No,’ the professor said, ‘it’s just that the eight questions were the test. I told everybody who was gathered that I’ve had such a great time teaching all of you. If you want to have fun for the rest of your life, solve these two questions. They are unsolved math questions that even Einstein himself went to his grave unable to solve. How did you do this, George?’
George recounted his thoughts. If he had approached the problem differently, he might have succeeded. If he had known ahead of time that no one had solved those problems, he would have changed his strategy. This change meant he might not have accessed the solution within himself.
That same access is within everyone of us!
Now, I don’t know what it is that you are facing. But, I know this is about YOU. YOU are in the art of becoming. You are a son or a daughter of the Infinite. You are of the Most High… to be EVERYTHING YOU want to be, EVERYTHING YOU are created to be, to give EVERYTHING YOU want to give… even to build YOUR DREAM LIFE!
Know there is ALWAYS a solution available for ANY problem you are facing.
Your job is to stay open to that possibility…
Believing In You!
Holly
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