06-17-2017, 08:40 AM
I really dug the way Jesus and many other teachers used to use parables to illustrate their teachings.
So, I thought it would be fun to share parables we had written ourselves, or favorite parables from other teachers or writers. People are welcome to discuss the parables as they see fit.
I'll start it off with one I wrote:
A Parable
Joe and Mary lived in Shelbyville for 8 years. Then they moved to Springfield. It was an exciting time. Their new neighbor was a man named Bob. They acknowledged each other as new neighbors do.
Each afternoon Bob would sit on his deck and read. When he walked onto or off of the deck or looked up from his book he could not help but see into his new neighbor’s yard, and each day there was Mary having intercourse with a man with long dark dark hair – the same man every day, who was most definitely not her husband Joe, who had short blonde hair.
Bob ignored this for several months. It was none of his business. Maybe Joe and Mary had an open relationship. But finally one day his conscious wouldn’t let up so he flagged down Joe in the driveway and said, “Look we don’t know each other that well, and it’s none of my business – maybe you and Mary have an open marriage – but I just thought you should know – if you don’t already - that she has sex out in your yard every afternoon with some guy with long dark hair. I just thought you should know.” Bob turned to walk away, taking no pleasure in having delivered the painful news, but hoping he had done the right thing.
Joe called after him to come back. Bob went back to where Joe was standing. Joe said, “Bob, as a matter of fact we don’t have an open marriage, and I want to thank you for telling me about this man who is fornicating with my wife. I was not aware of it. But let me tell you what I am really sore about. For the last eight years when we lived over in Shelbyville she was fornicating every day with some bald-headed son of a *****. Now, let me tell you about that!” Joe proceeded each day to tell Bob more details from the sad story of how his marriage was compromised by the 8-year affair with the bald-headed man in Shelbyville, all the while ignoring the affair Mary was now having with the man with long dark hair in Springfield.
Draw your own conclusions.
So, I thought it would be fun to share parables we had written ourselves, or favorite parables from other teachers or writers. People are welcome to discuss the parables as they see fit.
I'll start it off with one I wrote:
A Parable
Joe and Mary lived in Shelbyville for 8 years. Then they moved to Springfield. It was an exciting time. Their new neighbor was a man named Bob. They acknowledged each other as new neighbors do.
Each afternoon Bob would sit on his deck and read. When he walked onto or off of the deck or looked up from his book he could not help but see into his new neighbor’s yard, and each day there was Mary having intercourse with a man with long dark dark hair – the same man every day, who was most definitely not her husband Joe, who had short blonde hair.
Bob ignored this for several months. It was none of his business. Maybe Joe and Mary had an open relationship. But finally one day his conscious wouldn’t let up so he flagged down Joe in the driveway and said, “Look we don’t know each other that well, and it’s none of my business – maybe you and Mary have an open marriage – but I just thought you should know – if you don’t already - that she has sex out in your yard every afternoon with some guy with long dark hair. I just thought you should know.” Bob turned to walk away, taking no pleasure in having delivered the painful news, but hoping he had done the right thing.
Joe called after him to come back. Bob went back to where Joe was standing. Joe said, “Bob, as a matter of fact we don’t have an open marriage, and I want to thank you for telling me about this man who is fornicating with my wife. I was not aware of it. But let me tell you what I am really sore about. For the last eight years when we lived over in Shelbyville she was fornicating every day with some bald-headed son of a *****. Now, let me tell you about that!” Joe proceeded each day to tell Bob more details from the sad story of how his marriage was compromised by the 8-year affair with the bald-headed man in Shelbyville, all the while ignoring the affair Mary was now having with the man with long dark hair in Springfield.
Draw your own conclusions.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
