Lord, please help me to change - Judith Couchman

WELCOME T O M YPITY PART YFeeling sorry for ourselves can delaypersonal change and destroy relationships.-Sf opene d th e gift and fel t dumbfounded."Thanks fo r th e stuffe d animal, " I finally said , turnin gover th e gra y donkey i n m y hands. 1 vaguely recognize d hi m a sEeyore from the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.Why in the world would she give this to me? I wondered afte r m yfriend left the office. A donkey'? Now really! I'm a grown woman.Still, whether o r no t m y friend intended it , I sensed tha tEeyore ha d arrive d t o deliver a message t o me . But what was it? Iset him asid e and continue d m y work, but I couldn't cas t of f th ecuriosity.Later when th e naggin g failed to subside, I bought a copy ofA. A. Milne's classi c book an d foun d Eeyor e i n chapter six , feelingsorry for himself.Eeyore, th e ol d gre y Donkey , stoo d b y the sid e o f th estream, and looke d a t himself i n the water ."Pathetic," he said . "That's what i t is. Pathetic. "He turne d an d walke d slowl y down th e strea m fo rtwenty yards , splashe d acros s it , and walke d slowl y