He Found Me
If I were a frog I would live near the water. I would splash and jump on the lily pads and I have slime on my tongue. I'll eat bugs and I am smooth. First I am a tadpole. And I jump high and I'll get my sword and I'll cut down a tree and live in a toilet and I always get flushed down. And there's a lily pad in the toilet. There's lots of fish in the toilet. And a boy found me in the toilet and he kept me forever. And then I died and then I turned back alive in five days.
I copied this story from a writing journal that Silas kept at school last year (in 1st grade). I corrected his spelling mistakes (i.e. toylit = toilet), but kept the story intact, including his title. Re-read the story, with a spiritual slant, imagining these allegories:
Frog - me
Toilet - my world
Jumping high - my attempts to do good
The Tree - my sins
Lilly Pad - the unstable ground on which I build my empire
The Boy - Jesus
There's more to it, I think! Use your imagination.
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