Kindness Instead Of Revenge

There was a sheep-raising farmer.  Next to him there was another farmer who was raising wheat, children, and large dogs.  The dogs were scaring the sheep.  The sheep farmer did not know what to do.  He could shoot the dogs or poison them, be nasty to his neighbor, or even take him to court.

He prayed about it...

As soon as some new lambs were born he gave each of his neighbor's children one of the lambs as a pet.  The children were thrilled.  But their father could no longer allow his dogs to run rampant as before.  He restrained them for the sake of the pet lambs.  The two farmers became friends.  Kindness won.

- submitted by Dennis Kamper, Parables, Etc. (July 1992)