A MONUMENT FOR BROTHER JEREMIAH

"BROTHER JEREMIAH"

     ( a fine frog preacher )

            wasn't much

as the world views events

   in the Great Cosmic Scheme

of things...

Many probably laughed

    him off....

as a "little frog in a little  pond"

   But I'll tell you

That frog could preach, 

   a settin''out there on 

        his lily pad.  

behind that rock !!!

He'd tell it like it was 

    on that little Kansas farm

in a small forgotten pond

Frogs were fooling around

    on other lily pads

way into the early meaning

           hours---

and making it worse

    the Demo-frogs were always

complaining about the tadpoles

   being separated from their

          MAMA FROGS !!!

Old JEREMIAH preached hard

    and best he could always

to a pondful of CROAKS,

    which are being interpreted

as frog "amens...."

Ah, he is gone now.   And the 

    story of his demise is 

too sad to tell here.     But

   the good news is that

 there is a little monument to him

   on that little Kansas farm

and on a Sunday morning 

    you can still hear

        (they say)

coming from the old pond---

    frogs croaking

"Shall We Gather At the River,,"

    his favorite hymn

There is a lesson here 

   in this story

ever to be remembered:

"You don't have to be

      a big frog 

          in a big pond

to make a difference."

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BY MIL

9 JULY 2018