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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">THE MOUNTAIN <BR><BR>There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the<BR>lowland and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people<BR>invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of<BR>people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and<BR>took the infant back up into the mountains.<BR><BR>The lowlanders did not know how to climb the mountain, they didn't<BR>know any trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know<BR>where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep<BR>terrain.<BR><BR>Even so they sent out the best party of fighting men to climb the<BR>mountain and bring the baby home. The men tried first one method of <BR>climbing and then another.<BR><BR>They tried one trail and then another. After several days of
effort<BR>however, they climbed only several hundred feet.<BR><BR>Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men felt the cause was<BR>lost, and they prepared to return to their village.<BR><BR>As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's<BR>mother walking towards them. They realized she was coming DOWN the <BR>mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.<BR><BR>And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back<BR>HOW COULD THAT BE?!?!?<BR><BR>One man greeted her and said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How<BR>did you do this when we, the strongest most able men in the village,<BR>couldn't do it?"<BR><BR>She shrugged her shoulder and said " It wasn't your baby"</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><BR><BR>Rabiah Al Nur
<DIV></DIV>Spring of Light
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