The Man Who Owned A Hill

Tonight’s story is about Henry Cole, a man who owns a beautiful hill outside a small farming town. At least, that is what he believes. He has the deed. He has the fence. He has the legal right to say the land is his. But over time, the hill stops being a place of beauty and becomes something he guards, worries over, and suffers through. That is how the word “mine” works. My land. My money. My reputation. My pain. My success. My story. My truth. The word is small, but it can wrap itself around the heart like barbed wire. Use what comes into your life. Care for it. Protect it when needed. But do not let it own you.