How to Put the World Back Into Order

From a fellow on the SSPX Facebook page 

Let me relay to you a story that my late father told me in my youth.

There once was a family man who worked in an office. On a particular occasion, he figured that his young son was just old enough to come with him to “bring your kid to work day.” However, upon arriving, the father quickly realized that nothing in the office could keep his son busy for the whole day. But then a stroke of genius!

The father saw a map of the world hanging on his wall that he had taken from an old National Geographic issue. And so, he ripped the map up into about a hundred different pieces, mixed them up, and gave them to his son, saying, “come find me when you put the map back together in the right order.” Surely this would keep his son busy for the rest of the day.

However, within fifteen minutes, the boy came into his father’s office to let him know that he had completed the task. How was such a thing even possible?! How could a boy not yet old enough to read put a map of the world together in such short order? But sure enough, there laid the map on the floor, every nation and sea in its rightful place.

Astounded, the father asked his son how he completed such a task with relative ease. The boy quickly answered, “Well, Dad, on the back of the map, there’s a diagram of a man. And I realized that when you put the man in order, the whole world comes together.”

Perhaps there is a lesson here for all of us who wish to be of service to the Church in the restoration of Tradition.