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Published May 13, 2008 12:32 pm - Fort Faith: We have a lot to croak about By Barrett VanLandingham Are you a frog? That's an odd question! But the other night when I was sitting on my back porch here in Fort Gibson, my 12-year old daughter Gracie ran up to Lisa and me, jumping up and down, and revealed her newest treasure. It was a tree frog about as big as my thumb. Of course, it had big sticky hands and feet, and bulging eyes. But that's not what I wanted to tell you about. It was bedtime, so I told Gracie, “It's a school night. Just put down the frog and go to your room.” So with some resistance she carefully placed it on a water-covered stump in the back yard, about seven feet from where I was sitting. I told Gracie, “Don't worry. As soon as you go to bed, the frog will probably get its top hat and cane, and do a little jig for us.” Well, that didn't happen. But what did happen sparked an idea for this article. That little frog began to croak a medium high-pitched tone that was so loud I could barely carry on a conversation with my wife. What a disaster. Just one frog was making all that noise. And then I could hear what sounded like dozens of other frogs in the distance chiming in with this one. As soon as I got past the shock of how loudly one frog could croak, I thought to myself just how much like a tree frog are we as Christians supposed to be? Just think of the lessons we can learn from critters like this. 
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