"What do you do indoors then, when you can't go out in the summer heat because of your medicine?" I was once asked. I've done a lot of reading, especially because I've seen a lot of books on my parents' bookshelves.
Illustration: Graham Wade
One such book, by Paul White, Jungle Doctor's Fables, was written by a missionary to Africa, copyrighted in 1955 and translated into Japanese in 1958, and it had found its way onto my mother's bookshelf in 1972. I'm just reading it this year, in 2025!
One of its first stories told of a monkey trap, altho' that monkey was caught with peanuts, not with a banana, like in the picture posted. He thought he'd found something really good and wouldn't release his grip even when his friend the giraffe warned him to do so; he wouldn't be fooled by the giraffe!
Peanuts and bananas are better than worms that fish seem to prefer, don't you think? I've always preferred sherbet to ice cream, jello to pudding, fruit punch to milkshake. What makes YOU happy? Yummies? Comforts? Friends and Popularity? Success? Promotion? Work? Attractiveness?
The apostle Paul talked about the one thing that appealed to him and for which he would give his entire life. I wrote about it on another blog. If you wouldn't mind reading boring posts that don't have pictures, you might look at https://graceexceeding.blogspot.com (the post Captive to One Thing is Aug. 11,'25).
