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Once upon a time there was a prince who had been turned into a frog. The transition wasn't instantaneous as is the fate of most fairy tale prince-frogs. In this case the process was gradual, over thirty years or so. You would think that a gradual change might be less traumatic than a sudden transformation; after all, the royal fellow had had a chance to adjust to his amphibious state. In a way, however, the slow change was even worse. The inevitability of the final result ate away at the prince's mind. Day by day he noticed that his voice was changing, warts were appearing, his skin color was becoming gray-green, his eyes and feet and back were becoming more frog-like, and he was shrinking in size. That's not an experience likely to produce gusto in a prince. "What's happening to me? What witch have I offended to produce this spell of hoppitis?" he wondered. The prince spent a few years flitting around the land collecting kisses from princesses before he turned completely "froginous" and ugly. After all, he had read the fairy tales about the magic antidote of a maiden's kiss. Unfortunately, the virus strain that he suffered from didn't respond to the magic of that old child's tale. Eventually, he gave up and accepted his gradual transformation. To make a long "tale" short, by age sixty the prince was a complete frog, hopping along, minding his diet, completely resigned to his fate. He fell in love with an elderly lady frog, and, upon kissing her warty, fly-specked face, he found that he was instantly changed into a prince again. Well, at least for a moment. From then on, for varying periods of time after kissing her, he felt as if he were a prince and she were a princess. How about that! Princes grow old; that is, if they live long enough, all princes become frogs. David K. Reynolds, Ph.D.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 408 | Print | E-mail
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Lectionary Passages for November 23rd 2008
[Year A]
Proper 29(34)
Sundays after Pentecost
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:31-46
Ephesians 1:15-23
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