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Me:\u00a0 I like your friend!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Great guy!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I think he will like this next story.<\/p>\n

This is from Ask Me to Dance by Bruce Larson<\/p>\n

You ever feel like a frog?\u00a0 Frogs feel slow, low, ugly, puffy, drooped, pooped.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 One told me.\u00a0 The frog feeling come when you want to be bright but feel dumb, when you want to share but are selfish, when you want to be thankful but feel resentment, when you want to be great but are small, when you care but are indifferent.\u00a0 Yes, at one time or another each of us has found himself on a lily pad, floating down the great river of life.\u00a0 Frightened and disgusted, we’re too froggish to budge.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time there was a frog, only he wasn’t really a frog, he was a prince who looked and felt like a frog.\u00a0 The wicked witch had cast a spell on him and only the kiss of a beautiful maiden could save him.\u00a0 But since when do cute chicks kiss frogs?\u00a0 So there he sat, an unkissed prince in frog form.\u00a0 One day a beautiful maiden gathered him up and gave him a big smack! Zap!! There he was, a frog turned handsome prince and they lived happily after.\u00a0 So what’s the task of the Christian?\u00a0 Kissing frogs, of course!<\/p>\n

John 4:15<\/p>\n

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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