BEWARE OF THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

A group of frogs was traveling through the woods,

and two of them fell into a deep pit.  

All the other frogs gathered around the pit.  

When they 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 out of the pit

with all of 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 three lessons:

The power of words....