Monday, November 19, 2007

a great story for congregants

Once upon a time in a far off country with green pastures and blue ponds where it was always spring lived a prince who was the apple of his father's eye. But the king's advisors despised his child, so they kidnapped him, tied him in a woolen bag, and went to hide him in a cave where they would feed him stale bread and warm brine.

When the king missed his beloved son for dinner he decreed a search throughout the castle for the charmed lad but he was not to be immediately found. But some in the king's house became suspicious of the conspirators, so the king had them followed. Quickly enough they were found out, and the boy was rescued and returned safely. The king tried all the bad men and found that they had misbehaved. As a result, they reaped punishment for themselves and were not allowed to be the king's advisors anymore.

Life went back to being like it was supposed to be. The end.

1 comment:

Jon said...

The deposed advisors went to a nearby appliance store where they stole as many empty refrigerator boxes as they could carry.

They dragged the boxes outside of town, and, using paint and tin cans and aluminum foil and duct tape other things they found in the ditch, they fashioned those refrigerator boxes to look like a little "kingdom." Of course, it was a shabby little kingdom.

Then they stood inside their cardboard kingdom and called out to folks as they came in from the countryside on their way to the nearby real kingdom.

The only surprise is how many actually accepted their invitation. For all those who did were sent out into the ditches and garbage heaps to find more bits of glass or aluminum or plastic with which to decorate the shabby cardboard kingdom.

"This is the meaning of life," they were told.

Now the people inside the real kingdom, try as they may, could not convince the poor travelers to lift their eyes, drop the garbage and come inside.

Really, the whole affair bothered all the people inside both kingdoms.

But in different ways.

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