Children’s Treasure

Author:
Bala Mithran

God’s Love
 

Once there was a small kid on earth. One fine day it came to know that God is distributing apples to humans in the heaven. The kid was  happy to receive that news and  went with lots of hopes to heaven to get the apple from God. There was a big queue to get the apples. This kid joined that queue, full of excitement and thrill.

   When his turn came the kid showed both the hands to receive apple. God gave the apple but the child could not hold it as its hands were small. It fell down and rolled away. The angels present said that if the kid wanted to get apple, it had to come in the queue again. Having waited for long, the kid did not want to return to earth with empty hands. So it decided to wait again in the queue.

By the time the queue had become longer than the previous one. While waiting in queue, the kid could see a number of people returning with apple in hand and a smile on their faces.

The kid was so much disappointed and thought, “Why I alone did not hold  the apple in hand when all others were easily able to get it? What is the sin I committed, so as to make me suffer like this.”

Now the kid was keen that it should not miss the apple for the second time. Again its turn came and God placed the apple in the kid’s hands.

“My dear child, last time only after  giving you the apple I noticed that the apple I gave you was rotten. That is why I made it fall from your hands. Having given you a rotten apple, I felt very sad and wanted to give you the best apple in the farm.

That apple was

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