| Some of the best short stories are ones that teach | | | | To best illustrate this important point I will now |
| us lessons. They tell us stories that make us think | | | | recommend a short story that everyone should read, |
| and put us there in the heat of passion and within | | | | hopefully they will read it before spreading gossip or |
| the emotion of the tale. We feel as if we are one | | | | destroying the personal integrity of another. Please |
| with the lesson, we are one with the characters and | | | | read: |
| we feel their wisdom, joy and their pain. I know of | | | | "Gossip" by Billy Graham |
| just such a story one I would like to recommend to | | | | This short story shows us an analogy that really hits |
| you. | | | | the message and brings it home. Rather than me give |
| It's a short story and a lesson about gossip, about | | | | away the whole story, because like I said it is a short |
| the damage it does and how it's impossible to undo. | | | | one, I recommend that you give this story to |
| Gossip is something that all humans do, but in doing | | | | anyone who gossips too much or says hurtful things |
| so they hurt what we are all about and they destroy | | | | behind other people's backs. Perhaps, this story will |
| the most wonderful emotional social strength | | | | wake them up to the damage they do. They may |
| between us. Gossip rips through our need to socialize, | | | | not thank you for the message, but it will do the |
| and outcastes individuals amongst us. And for what, | | | | trick. |
| what purpose does it serve? | | | | |
