Playing With Fire (3 of 7)
Return to Me
Jeff Schreve
Malachi 2:1-9
When I was growing up in about the third grade, we lived in Los Altos, California, a little town outside of San Jose area, not too far from Stanford University. In my little neighborhood, the Fourth of July was a big event. All the neighbors got together, and we shot fireworks. There were a bunch of grade-school kids and some older kids. I was the fifth of six kids, and so we were all there, and we were shooting fireworks. I had a neighbor next door to me who was a pilot for TWA, and he used to fly to Japan, and he would get all these fireworks, firecrackers, and he'd give them to the kids. Well, I was a third-grader, and I thought I was pretty tough, because I saw an older kid take a firecracker and he lit it in his hand and he threw it, and it exploded at whatever he was throwing it at, and it just looked so cool. I thought, man, maybe I can do that. And so, I did it. I threw it, and it was so cool, and I felt so cool. And here I am. I'm a third-grader. I keep doing that, and it was so fun. I still remember there was an eighth-grade girl. Her name was Mickey. And I said, "Mickey, watch what I can do." And I took it, and I lit it, and before I could get it to leave my hand, it went off in my hand. Now, it didn't blow my fingers off, obviously. It was just a little firecracker. But when you're in third grade and the firecracker goes off in your hand, what do you do? You start crying. And so, I was crying and running to my mom. Here I was trying to impress eighth-grade girl Mickey, and now I was crying. Well, I learned that day a very important lesson. You don't mess around with firecrackers because firecrackers are powerful. If you mess around with firecrackers long enough, eventually one of them is going to blow up in your hand. You know, we have a phrase in English, a little idiom in English that kind of teaches that truth, and the phrase is this: "If you play with fire, you a ...
Return to Me
Jeff Schreve
Malachi 2:1-9
When I was growing up in about the third grade, we lived in Los Altos, California, a little town outside of San Jose area, not too far from Stanford University. In my little neighborhood, the Fourth of July was a big event. All the neighbors got together, and we shot fireworks. There were a bunch of grade-school kids and some older kids. I was the fifth of six kids, and so we were all there, and we were shooting fireworks. I had a neighbor next door to me who was a pilot for TWA, and he used to fly to Japan, and he would get all these fireworks, firecrackers, and he'd give them to the kids. Well, I was a third-grader, and I thought I was pretty tough, because I saw an older kid take a firecracker and he lit it in his hand and he threw it, and it exploded at whatever he was throwing it at, and it just looked so cool. I thought, man, maybe I can do that. And so, I did it. I threw it, and it was so cool, and I felt so cool. And here I am. I'm a third-grader. I keep doing that, and it was so fun. I still remember there was an eighth-grade girl. Her name was Mickey. And I said, "Mickey, watch what I can do." And I took it, and I lit it, and before I could get it to leave my hand, it went off in my hand. Now, it didn't blow my fingers off, obviously. It was just a little firecracker. But when you're in third grade and the firecracker goes off in your hand, what do you do? You start crying. And so, I was crying and running to my mom. Here I was trying to impress eighth-grade girl Mickey, and now I was crying. Well, I learned that day a very important lesson. You don't mess around with firecrackers because firecrackers are powerful. If you mess around with firecrackers long enough, eventually one of them is going to blow up in your hand. You know, we have a phrase in English, a little idiom in English that kind of teaches that truth, and the phrase is this: "If you play with fire, you a ...
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