Friday, July 24, 2009

Sand Castles

I heard one version of the 'sand castle' stories from one of Pastor Chuck's children sermon in the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Appleton, WI.

Here, I write about my version of the 'Sand Castle' story. Here it goes:

Jenny does not remember how many sand castles she has built over the last 25 years. She is young enough to remember the details of the castles she has built either on her own or with friends or even with parent. She is also old enough to understand the philosophy of building sand castles.

Jenny's first castle was at the shore of San Diego (CA) when she was only 6 years old. Her parent took her over there for vacation. Actually the castle was built mostly by her dad and mom; but Jenny did help from the side using her arms and legs to shore up the sand. The first castle they built was quite elaborate: it is equipped with molt that surrounded outside of the castle, and two cannon battery site. There even sand soldiers either standing or walking to guard the castle. Just about this beautiful castle to finish, a wave coming over high enough to swallow the castle and completely destroyed the castle they had built.

When the family is back to the shore of Lake Michigan of Wisconsin, Jenny began to build castle on her own. The second castlt was completely built on her own. It was only a simple pile of sands with the sands inside the wall carved away to give it a look of sand castle. Later, other friends join in continuing to add features here and there and their castles were becoming more elaborate. But no matter how many castles they had builts, all of them eventually were swallowed and destroyed by the wave.

Jenny now has her own child of 3 years old. This year, Jenny and her husband Mark took the 3 years old baby to the sea shore to introducing sand castle lesson to their child.

Their castle finally finished after 3 hours of hard work. A big wave rushing over from the ocean swallowed and destroyed their castles; just like it swallowed and destroyed other sand castles.

The baby cried sadly. Jenny said to her child not to worry, because everything we had today is only a fleating experience and it will eventually vanish. However, the process of building the castle will make you a better castle builder and also allows you to make friends with other friends. Most importantly, you will have fun of building the castle, and that fun counts all.

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