Powerful Inspiring Story of Two Frogs

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, 

and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other 

frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs 

that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored 

the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with 

all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, 

that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs 

took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. 

He fell down and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. 

Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop 

the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally 

made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, 

"Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that 

he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him 

the entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. 

An encouraging word to someone who is down 

can lift them up and help them make it through the day.

2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be 

what it takes to kill them.

Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross 

your path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard 

to understand that an encouraging word can go such 

a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob 

another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. 

Special is the individual who will take the time 

to encourage another.

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