olivia was a young girl who lived with her mother father and her little younger brother
one day olivier's mother called for her olivia
please go and get some nice apples from the orchard i am thinking of making some apple
stew for your brother olivia loved going to the orchard so she went
olivia entered the orchard and looked at the beautiful apple trees
filled with succulent red apples
she walked through the orchard with a basket and stopped under an apple tree she looked up
and saw the apples in this tree did not look very pleasing they were dark in color not very big
some even had dark spots on them as if they were smashed some were pecked on by birds
these apples do not look nice at all let me go and check another tree
so she ignored the first tree and walked right ahead then she stopped under another tree which
had bright red shiny apples they were smooth and looked very pretty wow these apples are so
so much better than the ones i saw earlier i am going to take apples from here olivia picked out
the apples which she thought were the best ones the big and round and the shiny ones she couldn't
wait to take them back home and eat them with a basket full of apples happily she went home
look mom i've got such nice looking apples
her mother looked at the apples but did not say anything
she got a knife from the kitchen and cut one apple to olivia's surprise the apple was rotten to the
core how could this happen they are such nice looking apples how can they be rotten from within
olivia's mother took another apple and cut it open this too was rotten just like the other one olivia
was very disappointed her mother picked her up on her lap and said olivia let me tell you one thing
there are some things which look very nice and beautiful from outside but that's only skin deep
their goodness does not lie from within the apples you thought were rotten from outside
were probably the ones which were fresh and nice from inside so you've got to learn to
recognize something or someone's goodness from inside so what is the moral of the story
that we should never judge a book by its cover and that god wants us to go deeper inside
to understand someone's goodness
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
today's story is about a remarkable woman of the bible named rachel
who is rachel what happened to her rachel was the youngest daughter of laban
who was the grandson of a man named nahar and the brother of a woman named rebecca
rachel was an extremely beautiful girl she had met jacob when she went to get water from the well
for laborious flock of sheep this was the time when jacob was running away
and trying to escape his brother Ishaw's anger and displeasure towards him
the moment jacob saw rachel he fell in love with her beauty and immediately wanted to marry her
he agreed to work for laban and after several years of working for him did laban agreed to
the marriage however the day after his wedding jacob found out that the woman he married was
not rachel but laban's oldest daughter leah on the day of their wedding it was impossible for him to
understand as the bride was heavily veiled and her face was covered as per tradition jacob realized
that laban had tricked him and instead of his younger daughter he got him married
to his oldest daughter leah this made jacob very upset but he continued to work for laban
for seven years so that he could marry rachel during this time jacob and leah had children
finally after another seven years jacob married rachel but he had no children with her
this became a situation of envy and jealousy among both the sisters leah was very upset
about jacob choosing her sister over her while rachel was heartbroken that she was unable to have
any children with jacob out of desperation rachel gave one of her servants to jacob as his wife and
decided that any children they would have would be credited to rachel as the child's mother soon
jacob had a son with the servant and the baby was credited to rachel rachel named him joseph
joseph grew up to be jacob's favorite son days passed by and rachel soon became a mother again
but she died while giving birth to the child she named him ben on e which later jacob
changed to benjamin that was a great story holy i'm glad you liked it
we have all heard about eve haven't we we all know how it all began with adam and er so today we're
going to hear the story of eve eve is the very first woman in the whole wide world she is the
very first wife and the very first mother after god created the earth god created eve in his own
image of woman out of adam's rib and brought her to adam and called her his wife god said to adam
this is now bone of your bones and flesh of your flesh she will be called woman for she was taken
out of man god then made a garden for adam and eve to live in and called it the garden of eden
in the garden of eden there was a particular tree called the tree of knowledge
god said adam and eve you should certainly not eat the fruits of this tree or you shall die
eve was the first woman to meet satan in the form of a serpent satan tempted her to eat fruit from
the tree of knowledge of good and bad satan said you will certainly not die god knows that if you
eat from this tree you will be like god and know all about good and evil just like he does
eve gave in to the temptation to become wise and powerful like god
she even gave some to adam who at first refused but eventually ate it they completely disobeyed
god's command of not eating from the tree of knowledge god was very angry with them
what is this that you have done the serpent cheated me he tempted me to eat the fruit and
i ate it god asked adam and eve to leave from the garden of eden and toil and work for themselves
eve was very ashamed of her actions but she continued to be hopeful and faithful to god
her faith and love pleased god and he decided not to punish her by destroying her completely
he blessed her with children eve rejoiced she learned all about compassion and forgiveness from
god and had two children named cain and abel and eventually her descendants included jesus
the savior of the world that was an amazing story holy i loved it to bits i am glad you did freckles
hope you were able to win brownie points too we'll be back soon with another story