Guest guest Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 There were two warring tribes in the Andes Mountains in South America; one group lived high up in the mountains while the other group lived at the base of the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day. They carried off much of the lowlanders' property. As part of their plundering they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up the mountain. The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the highlanders used and they didn't know where to find the highlanders or how to track them in the steep terrain. Even so the sent out best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home. The men tried first one method of climbing and then another, but where the mountains weren't rocky they were covered in dense vegetation. They tried one trail and then another, but they could not hack their way through the tangle of vines and underbrush. After many day of effort, they had managed to climb only several hundred feet. Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men gave up and prepared to return to their village below. As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb. And as she got closer they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be? The warrior leader greeted her with, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How could you do it when we, the strongest and wisest men in the village, couldn't do it?" She shrugged her shoulders and said, "It wasn't your baby." "The Mountain" by Jim Stovall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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