The Ant And The Grasshopper
A mother of a 9 year old boy, Mark, received a phone call in the middle
of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son's school.
"Mrs. Smith, something unusual happened today in your son's third grade
class. Your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought
you should know about it immediately."
Mother's seldom want to hear from their child's teacher in the middle of
the day. The mother was uneasy and nervous by such a beginning to a
phone call. "What now?" the mother wondered.
The teacher continued, "I have been teaching for many years and nothing
like this has happened until now. This morning I was teaching a lesson
on creative writing. And as I always do, I tell the story of the ant and
the grasshopper. The ant works hard all summer and stores up plenty of
food. But the grasshopper plays all summer and does no work.
Then winter comes. The grasshopper begins to starve because he has no
food. So he hops to the ants house and begins to beg. 'Please Mr. Ant,
you have much food please let me eat, too.' Now boys and girls your job
is to write the ending to the story.
Your son, Mark, raised his hand. "Teacher, may I draw a picture?"
"Well, yes, Mark, if you like, you may draw a picture. But first you
must write the ending to the story."
The papers came in. As in all the years past, most of the students said
that the ant shared his food through the winter and both the ant and the
grasshopper lived.
As always, a few children said, 'The ant said, "No, Mr. Grasshopper. You
should have worked in the summer and not played. Now, I have just enough
food for myself." So the ant lived and the grasshopper died.
But your son ended the story in a way different from any other child,
ever. He wrote, "So the ant gave all of his food to the grasshopper; the
grasshopper lived through the winter. But the ant died."
And the picture?
At the bottom of the page, Mark had drawn three crosses. "Jesus gave up his life so that we might live eternally."
[ Author Unknown -- from 'E-Mail Ministry' -- Ed:anon. ]
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