Like me, you may have heard this fable in your house of worship when you were young. You don’t always ‘get it’ when you are young. But as a business person it is something worth remembering at all times. However you heard this, the moral of the story is the same; be mindful of opportunities that come your way–they do not always come labled as such.

~Missed opportunies and a lesson learned~

A man was in his house and there was a really bad flood, houses were floating, cars were swept away. He was sitting on the roof of his house when he was spotted by a man in a boat, the man offered to take him to safety, but he refused. He said no thank you, God will save me. Soon after a helicopter spotted him and threw down a rope for him to climb to safety, the man gave the same answer, he had faith and he was waiting for God to save him.

The winds grew and the man was swept off his roof and drowned. When he opens his eyes, he is in heaven and angels around him. He asks to see God and is taken to him. When he sees God he asks what happened, why didn’t God save him, surely his belief was strong enough. God looks at him, shakes his head and says, I can’t explain it, I just don’t know what happened–I sent you boat and a helicopter.