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plague or blessing?

Reed FrogEvery morning our Sunrise staff have devotions, part of which is a reflection on a scripture reading. Last week we read Exodus 8:1-11, regarding the plague of frogs that God brought upon Egypt. As usual, the question was asked, “Meeun avay klah dial jahp arohm?“, which loosely translated means, “Is there anything here that spoke to you?”

Being quite a heavy passage to meditate on in the morning, I wasn’t surprised that our staff were more pensive than usual. After a few minutes of silence one of the house moms spoke up and said, “Am I the only one wondering why this is considered a plague? I mean, come on, it’s free food!”

Laughter errupted all around followed by the swapping of frog recipes. “I REALLY like grilled frog legs! They’re much better than chicken.” “Oooh, have you ever had frog soup, now that’s really good, but you have to know how to make it.” …

{ 4 } Comments

  1. Anita | December 11, 2007 at 7:19 am | Permalink

    I personally think the grilled frog legs with lemon, pepper sauce is the best.

  2. James | December 11, 2007 at 8:01 am | Permalink

    love the story, man!

  3. Eunhee | December 21, 2007 at 11:49 pm | Permalink

    what a joyful, delightful story! talk about turning lemons into lemonade.

  4. mike park | March 10, 2008 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    This is great. I think there’s a bible study’s worth of stuff in this regarding culture and the bible :)

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