Happy Days Stories

Chino bounced onto the pulpit and squeaked with delight as he scrambled on top of the Bible.  "Dearly Beloved," he shouted, "We are gathered here today to celebrate spring."  All the mice cheered as he went on, "The church folk kindly left us food, so let's begin!"   With that he took a flying leap onto the floor and waddled to where all the mice had gathered round a huge piece of cake.  They all tried to grab the cake, and that's when the trouble started.  "It's mine!" one shouted.  "No! It's mine", yelled Chino.  In a moment there was a rolling mass of mice.  You just saw teeth and whiskers and flying tails!

Chino fought his way into the middle and sank his teeth into the cake.  He was determined to that he was going eat all that cake by himself!  The other mice disagreed.  No one thought that it would be good idea to share the cake, because everyone was greedy and ready to fight.  Chino was whirled around and around and the cake started to crumble and in no time at all he had left was a tiny crumb!

The cake was gone!  The mice stopped fighting and looked sheepishly at each other.  Chino looked at his ragged fur coat.  He had bites and scratches all over his tail and body!  The other mice were in just as bad shape.  For a while no one spoke as they licked their wounds.  And the a small brown mouse asked, "But, what happened to the cake?"

Everyone looked around and were just in time to see "Old Sly One" the rat slinking off, busily licking cake crumbs off his whiskers, and with a great big fat grin on his ugly face!

If only those mice had been kind to each other and shared the cake the fight could have been avoided, and all would have gone to bed happy.  But, that didn't happen.  No, they just glared at each other, and spent a sleepless night licking their sores.

Jesus wants us to share what we have and our toys.  He wants us to be kind to other boys and girls, and if we do this, we will stop fighting and hurting each other.  This will please Jesus.  And so we need to do what the Bible tells us, and "Stop being angry and unkind" to each other!

God bless.