COMMUNICATION
Illustration★★★★Matthew, a 3 1/2-year-old boy, was eating an apple in the back
seat of the car, when he asked, “Daddy, why is my apple turn-
ing brown?”
“Because,” his father explained, “after you ate the skin off, the
meat of the apple came into contact with the air which caused
it to oxidize thus changing its molecular structure and turning it
into a different color.” There was a long silence. Then Matthew
asked softly, “Daddy, are you talking to me?”
— Cooke
The point
A father's overly complex scientific explanation about oxidation prompts his young son to innocently ask if he's actually speaking to him.
Scripture
1 Corinthians 14:8-9
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Instructive
To tell aloud
under a minute · 80 words
Subjects