The Frogs and the Milk!

Hi all, Don’t quote me on this old folktale with a twist, but it really moved me, so I will share the tale with you! I attended our Church’s revival for the week, and a Pastor from North Charleston, SC recited this story during service: There were some frogs who came upon a pail of milk. They all wondered what it was and pondered over whether to jump in or not. While the others pondered, one jumped and another jumped in right behind him. They were having a ball sipping milk and swimming in the milk, they were ready to jump out and quickly found out they could not. The poor froggies started struggling and kicking and trying to get…kicking and paddling with no luck. Their friends on top of the pail said stop give up, stop you can’t do it, you can’t, just give up. The two were still struggling and tiring out, and they kept telling them no just stop, you can’t do it and finally one frog gave up the struggle, and sunk to the bottom and drowned. Oh NAW!!! The other frog said, he kept going, kept fighting, kept paddling, and his friends felt bad for him and told him to give you can’t do it just stop, he kept swimming, paddling kicking, and if you know anything about milk, if you keep churning… (it will start to slowly harden.) The frog felt a little more traction in the pail of milk as it slowly hardened to cream, then butter, and he jumped around in glee and jumped right on out of the pail! His friends were cheering and congratulating him and hugging him. He said if it wasn’t for y’all I would have given up. They were surprised, why would you thank us, we told you to give up a long time ago. Oh I thought y’all were rooting me on. All I could here was Keep Going, you can do it. Don’t stop, don’t give up, and I kept fighting for my life! You can find several forms of this folktale and the original moral was never giving up, but the twist is a tale of PERCEPTION! You hear what you want or need to hear. Someone can say one thing to two different people and depends on how that person processes that information,how they heard it, or their life experiences.