STORY : The Lesson Of The Bicycle Wheel by Bert Balling

Story title: The Lesson Of The Bicycle
By: Bert Balling


    The abbot of a large monastery was asked by some visitors how so many monks of such different origins and different talents and personalities could live and work so harmoniously under one roof.
    He thought it over for a moment and then explained, "we are like a bicycle wheel. It has a rim, spokes and a hub in the middle. The rim is like the monastic wall around us. But that only keeps us together externally. Now from the rim a whole series of spokes together. We members of the
community are those spokes. The hub is Jesus Christ. The rim of the wheel is just our monastery."
    When the visitor nodded his approval, the abbot went on,"You will notice on a bicycle wheel that the nearer the spokes get to the hub, the nearer they come to one another. It is just like that in a community which has Christ at its centre and hub."
    It is the same way in life. the more we make Christ the centre of our lives, the nearer we grow to one another.