The Rumor with Furry Feet
Value: Gossip
Value: Gossip
You wouldn’t think Christian people would say bad things about each other. But they do.
At Eric and Pammy’s church, some of the kids gossiped a lot. Usually it was silly stuff
but sometimes some of the kids acted snooty to some of the other kids in the Sunday
School class even though Mrs. Wallace the teacher talked to them a lot about Christian
unity and loving each other. Gossiping is not love, that is one thing the kids knew. But it
happens.
Then a gossip got started that was really really awful. Pammy heard it from Nicola.
Nicola leaned over after Sunday School and whispered, “You know Erin? Well
somebody at school saw her with an older boy and…..” she continued to whisper things
in Pammy’s ear that just couldn’t be true. Erin was a good girl and the rumor suggested
she was being very naughty with a boy. Well Pammy didn’t repeat the details but she
told her brother Eric about it and Eric was very worried.
“Erin is one of our closest friends and she loves Jesus with all her heart. This kind of
rumor could ruin her reputation and hurt her really bad.” But the rumor kept spreading
and soon it got to Erin. The day Pammy say Nicola whispering in Erin’s ear, it just
crushed her inside to see what happened. Erin burst into tears and ran from the Sunday
School room and didn’t come back for weeks.
Both Pammy and Eric felt awful about it. But they didn’t say anything even though they
both imaged how Erin was feeling all alone at her house thinking everybody thought she
was such a sinful girl and she wasn’t. That night Eric had a dream. It was really
frightening and he woke up with a gasp and had to sit out in the living room with a glass
of water to try to get it out of his head.
“I dreamed about the rumor that hurt Erin last night Pammy.” He told his sister the next
day.
“What happened in your dream?” she was dying to know.
“Well we were at church and the kids were all whispering that rumor to each other.
Suddenly, the rumor jumped out of the mouth of Nicola and became a monster. It had a
huge round body and a tiny little head but huge lips on the front. Its fur was long and full
of tangles and dirt and filth because it never cleaned itself. It had legs like a duck with
big huge feet like bigfoot has and the feet were covered with nasty black fur and he could
run really fast all over spreading himself, the rumor to everybody he could hunt down.”
Eric said his eyes wide like he was dreaming it again.
“Then it started chasing kids down and when they couldn’t run fast enough, he jumped on
them and fell on them with his big nasty fat lips and put the rumor all over them so they
could never get rid of it. Finally it go to Erin and when it got to her, it ate her completely
up and she was gone and we never had her in Sunday School again.” He finished. Both
Eric and Pammy’s hearts were racing from the dream. While it was a silly monster, the
damage the rumor did was so scary because they knew the damage was real.
“We will lose Erin if we don’t do something. We have to tell dad.” Pammy concluded.
As soon as she said that, Eric knew she was right. When their dad got home from work,
they told him everything. As soon as he heard that Erin had stopped coming to church he
called Pammy and Eric’s mom in.
“We can’t let Erin get hurt like this.” He said. “I am sure Erin’s parents don’t know why
she won’t go to church.” Then he told Eric and Pammy’s mom to call Erin’s parents and
tell them what was going on and that they weren’t going to take it lying down. Eric and
Pammy’s pride in their parents just burst from them. Then their dad called Mrs. Wallace
and let her in on it. Before the evening came, a plan was in place. The next Sunday Mrs.
Wallace confronted the rumor face to face.
“This rumor about Erin is false.” She told the Sunday School class. “You all know Erin
is a good girl. Satan uses rumors to destroy the church and if we don’t stop Satan, he is
going to destroy someone we love, Erin. We aren’t going to stand for that are we?”
“NO” the kids in Sunday School roared. Mrs. Wallace nodded to Eric and he went out
and got Erin.
“The weapon that defeats rumors and the devil is love. We all owe Erin an apology and
we need to pray that she forgives us, that we forgive each other and that God keeps us
honest and helps all watch out for each other that rumors don’t hurt our brothers and
sisters again.”
The prayer ended the rumor and Erin was as happy as ever.
“I had another dream last night.” Eric told his sister the next day.
“About the rumor?” she asked.
“Yep. The rumor with the furry feet walked into our Sunday School class to attack more
kids and it was faced with Mrs. Wright leading us all in prayer. It grabbed its chest and
dropped dead right there on the spot. Then from its useless body, beautiful flowers
started to grow and continued to grow until we couldn’t see the filthy monster at all, just
the pretty flowers that grew from its body.”
So their Sunday School class got stronger and grew closer because they knew what to do
when God’s enemy tries to hurt someone in the church with a rumor. And now you know
too so if you see the rumor with the furry feet, you can kill him and share all the pretty
flowers that grow from his stomach with everyone in your class.
Reference : from one of my eBook Collection entitle 50 Children’s Christian Stories
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