My Children's Stories

Princess Avery    

Once there was a little princess. This little princess loved rainbows. Every time it rained she looked and looked for a beautiful rainbow.

    One day after a sunny rain shower, Princess Avery went out in her royal garden to look into the colorful sky. She walked by the pink rose bushes, through the tiger lilies, and down the smooth pebble path. She searched the sky for red and orange, yellow and green, but the magnificent colors were no where. Where had the beautiful rainbows gone?

    Princess Avery sat on the garden bench beside a waterfall. A small, red and black ladybug sat beside her.

    “What is wrong Princess Avery,” The little lady bug squeaked. 

    “I haven’t seen a rainbow in days,” Princess Avery sighed.

    “Maybe you aren’t looking in the right spot,” The ladybug replied.

 This made Princess Avery think,

    “Maybe I should go out to the flowering hillside and look for a rainbow.”

    Princess Avery’s mother packed a lunch for her and kissed her forehead before she left for the flowering hillside. She walked down the wooded path, through the green forest and to the flowering hillside. The sky was a bright blue with puffy white clouds. The flowers were red, yellow and pink. The grass was neon green, just like her favorite crayon.  The sun was so bright she squinted to see the horizon. How could she find a rainbow on this beautiful day?

    After hours of picking flowers for her mother, and rolling in the fresh grass, Princess Avery was hungry. She spread her quilt on the grassy floor and began eating her turkey sandwich and carrots that her mother had prepared for her.

    “I guess I will not see a rainbow today,” Princess Avery mumbled just loud enough for the Shepard boy nearby to hear. The princess was so occupied playing on the beautiful hillside she hadn’t noticed him.

      “Do you not see the rainbow?” The shepherd boy asked

   The princess jumped to her feet and began searching the sky,

    “Where, where is it?” She asked.

    “Here,” The Shepard boy replied, pointing to the beautiful flowers.

    “And there,” He said, pointing to the trees on the horizon.

     

    At that moment Princess Avery realized that all this time she had been searching the sky for a rainbow, when there were rainbows all around her! The beautiful hillside, her garden, and the green forest. Each one was filled with the colors of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. She had rainbows all around her. She rushed home to tell her mother, but this time as she went through the wooded forest and green path she noticed all the colors. The green leaves, the blueberries, and the yellow canary swooping down low.

     “Mother, Mother,” Princess Avery shouted as she ran through her royal garden into the house.

She found her mother sitting in her chair reading, as she usually does.

    “I found a rainbow!” She was shouting with excitement.

    “Well, not an actual rainbow, but I found rainbows all around!”

 As Princess Avery explained to her mother what she had realized that day, her mother smiled humbly. For Princess Avery had found that God’s creation was so huge and colorful, you could find something as beautiful as rainbow’s in everything.

    From that day on Princess Avery found beautiful colors in everything, from the sky to the dirt, the flowers to the bugs, and the beautiful grass to the trees. God’s rainbows were everywhere!

 A Lesson in Gladness
 

    There once was a girl named Sue. She had so many books; she wasn’t sure what to do. Sue was an only child. She didn’t understand how to be mild. Everything she did was a little over the top. But she just couldn’t stop.

    She decided one day to give her books away. She searched for really good leaders to help give out her books to really good readers. She found a few, but not many. They sold the books to a cute little bookstore, for only two pennies.

 Soon Sue was done and now she had none.

     The leaders gave Sue the money, But do you know what was funny? When she walked through the door to the cute little bookstore…

 She was so surprised she began to cry. All of her favorite books were there in the best little nooks. The shelves were filled to the ceiling, and looked very appealing.

      All of the books she sold now had happy hands to hold. Everyone could be as happy as she, all of her very good leaders did agree.

     The cute little bookstore now changed its name, from, “A little Nook,” to, “Bunches of books!”

     Sue’s tears weren’t tears of sadness; Sue learned what it was like to feel gladness! She had never been so happy to give things away. She remembered this is what her Grandma use to pray!

 Today is a day Sue will remember, the day she understood God’s will for us to surrender!