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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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