September Fable 4

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭26‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭

There was a pig in the barnyard who thought everyone should live as he did, without care or particularity. He often spouted off that if everyone was only Content as he was, Happy with whatever came their way,  and without the stain of Ambition, they would have better days. He particularly harassed the horse who plowed  all day and came into his hay quiet and worn.

A goose took up the cause and honked the obvious, that if everyone cared for swill there would be no one to create it and some would do better to be more thankful for the horse that plowed and turned and hauled their corn cobs then to give him no end of grief from his worn out dusk to early dawn.

So each day passed, the pig wallowed and grunted, the goose gabbled and gaggled, and the horse had no peace.

The farmer’s dog came out on a night when the goose, fed up with the pig, drove around pecking him, honking loudly.  The pig squealed.

The dog turned to the goose, “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.”

Then he looked to the horse, “ Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.”

September Fables 3

“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭27‬:‭20

An old man in the woods long told the creatures not to go gazing in the pit, nor to search it out, it would snare them.

there was a brave young rabbit who told stories to himself about the pit. He we’re sure whatever was inside it, monsters or dragons, raging enchanted thorns, he could conquer it with his sword. The pit held no horror he could not vanquish. So he never thought of it except as the enemy in his own exploits. But there was always a glimpse his mind’s eye, always a nod to a worthy enemy.

One day while walking through the wood, came to it. It seem to open up in the bushes without warning and for the first time he thought about what he would do if he saw it.

He was curious, so he just peaked at the edge.

There were no monsters, no horrors, cruel twisting things; it was beauty, glory, light, and something he couldn’t quite see.

He also could not see the edge of the pit, which was the maw itself. The first chunks of dirt crumbled off and the mouth yawned. The rabbit craned to see deeper in to the light. He couldn’t pull away. He turned and looked at the trees. He now realized they were brown, there was no real color in the world at all.

He ran back to the edge of the pit and, having lost the colors of the edge, missed it completely and ran in.

“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

A mouse quivered through the edge of the forest path, she too heard the warning of the old man. But she thought of nothing else. She saw the pit always around the corner, always coming for her, in everyman’s house, and in every girls eye. But the eyes who were filled with it were her own.

One day, the pit within opened up and she was swallowed.

“Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

September Fables 2

The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭28‬:‭1‬ ‭

Once upon a time there was a raggedy old wolf, a real carcass of a canine. For many years he raided the lamb pens and had been ran out of sheep folds. He sat in his den, gnawing at the bones long bare and heard just a rustle of grass.

“The shepherds are hunting me out at last.” He thought. But deciding it was nothing, he went back to gnawing the bone.

Something tapped at the opening of the cave, thin sticks blowing on stone. Again he thought, “The dogs are out.”

A strong gust of wond loosened a few stones and they fell, hollow knells at the gaping mouth. “They’re on me!”yowled the dog and he charged into the woods.

A tall young lion, the lord of the wood, set out to see his realm that day, considering his own hunt within his territory.

The wolf yelped past. The lion said, “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.”