The Frog and the Two Birds
IllustrationParableStory★★★★THERE was a frog that wanted to cross the lake but he did not have the wherewithal to go that distance. So he tried to figure out how to get across the water, and he came up with a brilliant idea. There were two birds nearby and he talked the two birds into each picking up a twig, a pretty solid twig, and holding it in their mouths while he grabbed and held on with his mouth in between. The plan was for the birds to fly over and of course fly him across as he held on with his mouth.
The birds thought it was very brilliant for the frog to come up with a plan for overcoming an impossible situation. The frog latched his mouth on to the twig as the birds lifted off. As they ascended, there was a man in the vicinity who saw this unusual site of two birds carrying a frog through the air. He asked out loud, “Whoa!
Who came up with that brilliant idea?” The frog said, “I …” Opening your mouth at the wrong time in the wrong way can do great harm.
The point
A frog persuades two birds to carry him across a lake by twig, but when a passerby asks whose idea it was, the frog opens his mouth to answer and falls - showing the harm of speaking at the wrong time.