"I remember hearing a story about a father and his son. The father, a wonderful farmer, did not have the opportunity for higher learning, but he was going to see to it that his son got the best. Upon the son's returning from his freshman year at college, father and son were standing under a tree on the farm, and the father began to interrogate the son about his experiences that year at the university. The boy said, "Dad, I enjoyed my first year in school, but you know, I studied biology and philosophy and geology and I have learned some things that have upset me." The father was curious to know what was troubling his son and so he inquired further. The boy replied, "Dad, I have discovered that God made the world wrong. For example, look at this strong oak tree under which we stand.
God placed a small acorn on it, and look to our right at the big pumpkin, and God placed it on a fragile vine. Had I been God, I would have put the small acorn on the fragile vine; I would have put the big pumpkin on the sturdy oak."
About that time, the wind blew and an acorn fell out of the tree and hit the college student right on the head. The boy mopped his brow and looked at his father and said, "Dad, thank God it wasn't a pumpkin!"
