When my girls were little, we used to read the Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel. My favorite was a story titled "Cookies". In this story, Frog and Toad make cookies and eat a lot of them. They decide that they shouldn't eat so many cookies, so they put them in hard-to-get-to places, but then they end up eating more cookies anyway. In the end, Frog feeds the cookies to the birds.
Toad says, "We don't have any cookies."
Frog says, "No, but we have lots of willpower."
Toad says, "You may have it all, Frog. I'm going home to make a cake."
This story makes me laugh! I also like the message: willpower doesn't get us very far. The only powerful thing about our will is that we can use it to choose dependence on Jesus. Then we're plugged in to the Power!
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