Story of the Little Fish and Water

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LITTLE FISH, AND HE WAS SWIMMING NEAR THE EDGE OF THE RIVER

AND HE COULD HEAR A TEACHER SPEAKING TO HIS STUDENTS.

HE COULD NOT HEAR WHAT THE TEACHER WAS SAYING TO HIS STUDENTS,

SO HE SWAM A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE BANK.

AS THE TEACHER AND THE STUDENTS WERE SITTING ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER,

THE LITTLE FISH COULD HEAR THE TEACHER TELLING HIS STUDENTS,

" WATER IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR LIFE."   WITHOUT WATER, WE WOULD PERISH IN JUST A FEW DAYS.

THE LITTLE FISH THOUGHT, " IF WHAT THE MAN SAID WAS TRUE,

I BETTER FIND SOME OF THAT PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE CALLED "WATER" OR I SHALL DIE IN JUST A FEW DAYS."

THE LITTLE FISH FOUND OTHER FISH AND ASKED THEM WHERE COULD HE FIND WATER,

BUT NONE OF THEM KNEW WHERE HE COULD FIND THAT PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE CALLED WATER.

FROM STREAM TO STREAM, THE FRIGHTENED LITTLE FISH SEARCHED,

FOR THIS LIFE SUSTAINING SUBSTANCE CALLED WATER.

HE WAS EXHAUSTED, AND WAS JUST ABOUT READY TO GIVE UP,

AND HE SAW AN OLD, WISE FISH IN THE RIVER AND SAID,

"PLEASE, WISE FISH, WHERE CAN I FIND THE PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE CALLED "WATER"

THAT WILL GIVE ME LIFE.?"

"WATER" REPLIED THE OLD, WISE FISH.

YOU WERE CONCEIVED AND BORN IN WATER.

"WATER" IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT,

WATER SUPPORTS YOUR VERY LIFE.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY WATER."

WATER IS PART OF YOU, AND YOU ARE PART OF IT."

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AND DON'T SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WHERE IS GOD ?

YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY GOD.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY GOD'S LOVING, SPIRITUAL PRESENCE RIGHT NOW.

YOU WERE CONCEIVED IN IT, WHEN YOUR SOUL FIRST CAME INTO EXISTENCE.

YOU WERE BORN IN IT, AND YOUR LIFE IS SUSTAINED BY IT.

YOU ARE IMMERSED IN GOD'S LOVING PRESENCE.

JESUS SAID, " THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITH IN YOU."