What Goes Around Comes Around
A family had two sons. One bountiful harvest, the parents placed two heaping piles of wheat in the barn, one for each son.
That night, the younger son laid in bed, thinking that his brother, with his wife and kids to support, needed more wheat than he did. He got out of bed, dressed, went into the barn to shift wheat from his pile onto his brother’s pile, and returned to bed, happy to have given his brother the extra wheat.
Later that same night, the older brother could not go to sleep, awake with thoughts of his brother’s need for wheat: “He is just starting up in life. I am settled and well established. He needs the wheat more than I do.” With that, he got out of bed, dressed and went to the barn to move wheat from his pile to his brother’s pile. He then returned to bed, happy to have given his brother the extra wheat.
The next morning, the brothers got up and enjoyed their breakfast together, still happy from the previous night’s secret excursions. When they then entered the barn, each expecting to find his pile smaller than the other, they saw their piles, identical in size.
