The Barnyard Duck

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The Barnyard Duck

 

 

 

A

flock of wild ducks were

flying in formation, heading south for the winter. They formed a beautiful V in

the sky, and were admired by everyone who saw them from below.. One day,

Wally, one of the wild ducks in the formation, spotted something on the ground

that caught his eye. It was a barnyard with a flock of tame ducks who lived on

the farm.

 

 

 

 

 

They were waddling around on the

ground, quacking merrily and eating corn that was thrown on the ground for them

every day. Wally liked what he saw. " It sure would be nice to have some of

that corn, " he thought to himself. " And all this flying is very

tiring. I'd like to just waddle around for a while. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So after

thinking it over a while, Wally left the formation of wild ducks, made a sharp

dive to the left, and headed for the barnyard. He landed among the tame ducks,

and began to waddle around and quack merrily. He also started eating corn. The

formation of wild ducks continued their journey South, but Wally didn't care.

" I'll rejoin them when they come back North in a few months, he said to

himself.

 

 

 

 

Several months

went by and sure enough, Wally looked up and spotted the flock of wild ducks in

formation, heading north. They looked beautiful up there. And Wally was tired

of the barnyard. It was muddy and everywhere he waddled, nothing but duck doo.

" It's time to leave, " said Wally.

 

 

 

 

So Wally flapped his wings furiously

and tried to get airborne. But he had gained some weight from all his

corn-eating, and he hadn't exercised his wings much either. He finally got off

the ground, but he was flying too low and slammed into the side of the barn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He fell to the ground with a thud

and said to himself, " Oh, well, I'll just wait until they fly south in a

few months. Then I'll rejoin them and become a wild duck again. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But when the

flock flew overhead once more, Wally again tried to lift himself out of the

barnyard. He simply didn't have the strength. Every winter and every spring, he

saw his wild duck friends flying overhead, and they would call out to him.

 

 

 

 

But his attempts to leave were all

in vain. Eventually Wally no longer paid any attention to the wild ducks flying

overhead. He hardly even noticed them. He had, after all, become a barnyard

duck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look what happened to Wally. He

thought he would just " check-it-out " for awhile and then leave when

he wanted to. But he couldn't do it. Sin and bad habits are like that. It is a

trap, and it has a way of changing us into people we don't even want to become.

Eventually we lose touch with who we really are . We become barnyard

ducks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-- With warm regards,Lalita