Emphasis Preaching Journal
A man sat on a...
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A man sat on a park bench next to a pond. He began to feed some of a bag of popcorn to a beautiful mallard drake that swam in the pond. When the bag was nearly half gone, the mallard said, "You remind me of the way I myself was when young. We ducklings waddled where we pleased, Mother clucking her disapproval all the time. We couldn't understand a thing she said, and she never understood us. We would eat little fish; she'd turn up her nose. She'd offer us a worm and we'd run for the water. She'd stop at the edge of a puddle and watch us swim in it, a frantic look on her face.