FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH (5 OF 5)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Ruth 4:13-22
This content is part of a series.
From Tragedy to Triumph (5 of 5)
Series: Beauty for Ashes
Jeff Schreve
Ruth 4:13-22
A fifth-grade teacher came into her classroom. She gave her students an assignment. She said, ''I want you to go home and talk to your parents. Get them to tell you a story that has a lesson to it, a story with a moral, with a lesson, and then you come back to class tomorrow and you share it with the class so that we can learn from those lessons.'' So the students did. They came back the next day. And little Mary stood up first, and Mary said, ''Well, you know my dad is a farmer, and we have some egg-laying hens. And he told me a story about the hens and gathering the eggs. And we put them into a basket, and they were on the front seat of the truck, and we were driving them to market. But we hit a bump, and the eggs went flying out of the basket, and they all broke.'' And the teacher said, 'Oh, that's sad. What's the lesson in that story?'' She said, ''Don't put all your eggs in one basket.'' She said, ''Oh, that's very, very good. Good lesson. Good moral of the story.'' And then little Johnny got up. And she said, ''Little Johnny, what did your parents tell you? He said, ''Well, my dad's also a farmer. And we're in the chicken business, but for poultry, and so we raise chickens for poultry. And one time we had a dozen eggs and we were all excited. But then, when the time came to hatch, only 10 of them hatched and not the 12.'' And the teacher said, ''Well, what's the moral to that story?'' He said, ''My father told me, 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch!''' She said, ''Oh, very good. And then little Billy got up. He said, ''My daddy told me about Aunt Karen. Aunt Karen was a flight engineer during Desert Storm. And her plane was shot down over enemy territory. And she had to jump out of the plane. And all she had was her parachute, a machine gun, a machete, and a fifth of whiskey. And as she was coming down, she didn't want to hit the ground and break the bottle o ...
Series: Beauty for Ashes
Jeff Schreve
Ruth 4:13-22
A fifth-grade teacher came into her classroom. She gave her students an assignment. She said, ''I want you to go home and talk to your parents. Get them to tell you a story that has a lesson to it, a story with a moral, with a lesson, and then you come back to class tomorrow and you share it with the class so that we can learn from those lessons.'' So the students did. They came back the next day. And little Mary stood up first, and Mary said, ''Well, you know my dad is a farmer, and we have some egg-laying hens. And he told me a story about the hens and gathering the eggs. And we put them into a basket, and they were on the front seat of the truck, and we were driving them to market. But we hit a bump, and the eggs went flying out of the basket, and they all broke.'' And the teacher said, 'Oh, that's sad. What's the lesson in that story?'' She said, ''Don't put all your eggs in one basket.'' She said, ''Oh, that's very, very good. Good lesson. Good moral of the story.'' And then little Johnny got up. And she said, ''Little Johnny, what did your parents tell you? He said, ''Well, my dad's also a farmer. And we're in the chicken business, but for poultry, and so we raise chickens for poultry. And one time we had a dozen eggs and we were all excited. But then, when the time came to hatch, only 10 of them hatched and not the 12.'' And the teacher said, ''Well, what's the moral to that story?'' He said, ''My father told me, 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch!''' She said, ''Oh, very good. And then little Billy got up. He said, ''My daddy told me about Aunt Karen. Aunt Karen was a flight engineer during Desert Storm. And her plane was shot down over enemy territory. And she had to jump out of the plane. And all she had was her parachute, a machine gun, a machete, and a fifth of whiskey. And as she was coming down, she didn't want to hit the ground and break the bottle o ...
There are 34507 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
