let me tell you the story of emily there lived a young girl called carol
she was six years old and a very popular girl
in school she was friendly and sweet and everyone wanted to be friends with
her one day a new girl called emily came
into carol's class she was a quiet and shy little girl
she went and sat all by herself in the last row
carol who was sitting in the front row turned back at
emily and smiled to make her feel comfortable
emily smiled back at her a little hesitant
the teacher entered the class and began teaching
soon the bell rang and it was lunch break
all the children got up and ran out into the garden to play
except emily carol was about to leave the classroom
and she looked back and saw emily sitting all alone
looking out of the window carol went up to her
and said hey why don't you come and join us
it's fun during the breaks we all play together
come emily didn't know if she really wanted to go out and play with the
others she was feeling very shy in her new
school but carol would not leave her alone
she pulled emily by her hand and ran out of the classroom
she took her out into the garden and brought her to her
other friends look we have a new friend everyone meet emily emily
these are my friends emily smiled shyly there was one boy in the group who
did not smile back at emily he said no i'm not going to play with
her i am not playing if she's playing with
us saying this he stomped off
emily started crying and she ran away from
everyone carol was angry with tim for his rude behavior
so she made a plan and discussed it with her other friends
next day after class carol went out to play with her friends
they took emily with them too but this time
they did not take tim along with them tim
sat all by himself and watched everyone playing together
and having fun he felt really bad he thought to himself that's okay
they'll want me to play with them tomorrow the next day
the same thing happened emily carol and all of their other friends
were playing together this time too without tim
tim was very angry with carol for leaving him out
he walked up to all of them and said how can you all start playing without me
now do you realize how emily must have felt
when you chose not to play with her tim realized his fault
he apologized to emily and they all started playing together
happily so it is never a good feeling if people don't choose you
we should always love everyone the same way
i am sorry gumbo i didn't want to hurt you
you can take mine for now
i'll tell you children a story about two brothers
that will lift up your moods once upon a time there lived two
brothers george and harry their father was the
owner of a very large farm but now he was too old to work on
his farm so one day he called his two sons and
said sons i am old and sick
i cannot work on this huge land anymore so i will divide the farm into half
and give each one of you half i know both of you will work together
and take care of one another
soon the brothers started working together
at first they were best friends and shared everything together
then one day suddenly they had a fallout over a huge argument and they stopped
speaking to one another years went by and both the brothers did
not speak a word to one another one day a carpenter came to george's
house asking for some work sir
can you provide some work for me please is there any work that i can do for you
george thought for a while and said yes
there's something i can give you to work on
i want you to build a fence on my property near the stream
which will separate my farm from harry's
build a high fence so that i do not have to see him anymore i'm leaving for town
now and i want to see the work done once i
am back in the evening that evening when george came back from
the town he was shocked to see that the carpenter
had not followed any of his instructions instead of building
a high fence he had built a bridge over the
stream angry george walked down the bridge to
take a look at it when he saw his brother harry walking
towards him from the other side harry was very happy to see that his
brother had built a bridge between the two of them
he did not know it was otherwise harry said
i cannot believe you built a bridge to welcome me back
even after all the terrible things i've done to you
harry reached out for george and gave him a tight hug
george was very happy too he was pleased with the carpenter
that he had managed to bridge the gap between him and his brother
later when george went to thank the carpenter
he was nowhere to be found george realized it was god who had sent the
carpenter to bring both the brothers together
i am sorry tubby i shouldn't have been so rude
now i understand my mistake i am sorry too freckles i should have
asked you first before eating
all right come let me tell you a story which might help you to understand
better long time ago there was a little girl
named mila one day she went to a farm with her father
and got lost in the woods on the farm but mila was not afraid
she sat down on her knees folded her hands
and she started praying suddenly she saw a friendly man coming towards
her he was the farmer who owned the land
he found the little girl sitting and praying
he came over to her and said my child are you lost yes
the farmer was very shocked to see mila not scared at all
even though she was lost in the woods but aren't you scared
no sir i knew you would come i was in fact waiting for you
the farmer was surprised how did this little girl
know he would come and help her go back home
waiting for me what made you think i was coming
i was praying that you would you were praying
but all i heard you saying was the 26 alphabets
what was that for mila looked up at him and said
i was not sure exactly what to say so i was praying all the letters of the
alphabet and letting god put them together the
way he wanted them he knew and understood that i was lost
and i needed help so he put the letters together
better than i could do the farmer was amazed to see the amount of faith
this little girl had in god even though she couldn't see god
she had faith that he loved her and truly cared for her
she knew god would help her so when we have faith in god it isn't about
how big or small our faith is it is all about
how powerful our god is and that nothing is
impossible for god did this help you children understand
the meaning of faith better yes it did it's like we have faith in
you that you will tell us a story every time
we visit you
well it's something like that
hello children look what i have for you whoopee pie
we get the smaller pieces freckles now all of you put back the slices on
the plate let me tell you a story and then you can
eat the pie no why but i'm hungry
come on gumbo don't be so greedy first let me tell you the story
once there lived a little girl named jess
she had a younger brother called william they used to go to the same school
one day after coming back home from school
they were very hungry they wanted to eat something
that morning their mother had baked a cake
they opened the refrigerator and saw there was just enough left
for each one of them to have a slice william slurped seeing the piece of cake
he said let's have the cake with some milk
i'll slice the cake while you go get us two glasses of milk
just happily went to the kitchen to get two glasses of milk
for them william began to slice the cake but the slices were not equal in size
one was much larger than the other by now
jess had come to the table with two glasses of milk
william brought the cake and placed a small slice in front of jess
and he himself took the larger piece what have you done you gave me the small
slice of the cake and kept the bigger one for yourself
that is so mean i would have never given you the smaller
piece instead i would have taken the smaller piece and given the large piece
to you no you would have never done that
of course i would have i would have thought about you first
william felt bad he knew he was being selfish
jess was hungry too like him i am sorry jess here take some more from
me
william cut a piece from his own slice of cake
and gave it to jess jess hugged william they both laughed and began eating their
cakes and drank up the milk
so the moral of the story is that god is good
and if he gives us more than what we need we should
share it with those who do not have much we should never be greedy and keep
everything for ourselves all right i'm sorry for taking away the
larger slice first that's okay i'll break some from your
slice and give it to tubby and freckles so that all three of you get equal
amounts of pie yes holy please do that
yum that was delicious