The Story of the two frogs

by Brian on



This is a great story I got from a mem­ber of a forum who goes by the name of helper and I thought I would share it with you. It reveals how the words we speak can be very powerful.

A group of frogs were trav­el­ing through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the com­ments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were say­ing and gave up. He fell down and died.The other frog con­tin­ued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encour­ag­ing him the entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encour­ag­ing
word to some­one who is down can lift them up and help them make it
through the day.

2. A destruc­tive word to some­one who is down can be what it takes
to kill them.

Be care­ful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your
path. The power of words… it is some­times hard to under­stand
that an encour­ag­ing word can go such a long way. Any­one can speak
words that tend to rob another of the spirit to con­tinue in
dif­fi­cult times. Spe­cial is the indi­vid­ual who will take the time
to encour­age another.

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