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Spiritism for Kids - Célia Xavier Camargo - Portuguese  Spanish
Year 2 - N° 82 - November 16, 2008

  Translation
FELIPE DARELLA - felipe.darella@gmail.com
 

The ambitious squirrel 

 

Once upon a time a squirrel got into a hole of a strong and big tree.

It was the perfect shelter for the little squirrel to live. Happy, he moved there.

The tree started protecting him against the wind, rain, cold and wild animals, which always represented a risk.

Happy, the squirrel thought about putting his house in order. As it was too small, he thought of enlarging it.

With his strong and sharp teeth, he started gnawing the wall to enlarge his house. He dreamed about having a family and needed space for his wife and the kids to come.

Then, he enlarged the hole creating another bedroom, a room where he could eat and a deposit to keep nuts he found. The winter tended to be rigorous and it was needed to store the food to not go hungry.

The squirrel organized his house tastefully, decorating and cleaning to wait for his family’s arrival.

As he wasn’t satisfied with what he’s got, always desiring more, he kept enlarging it.

The others dwellers of the tree, birds, insects and other bugs, complained:

— Squirrel, you’re destroying our home! Our friend tree is getting weaker.

He replied:
 

— You are wrong. This tree is strong and its roots are deep.

One day, at the beginning of the winter, he had gone out searching for food and took some hours. When he came back, he had a great surprise. He tried to find his house:

— Where is my home, the leafy and friendly tree?...

Scared, he couldn’t believe what he saw: The tree, which was so strong, so firm, was on the floor!
 

How did it fall down?

Trying to figure what could had happened, the squirrel got closer to see what was going on, and then he noticed, he had gnawed its roots, making the

tree weaker, with the huge hole he had done inside the trunk.

The squirrel realized then, too late, the he was the sole responsible for the fall of that tree. In his wild ambition, he had destroyed the home the Lord had given him, and not only him, but all the others beings who also lived there.

It would be enough if he had been pleased with what he had got, so that he could live there in peace and safe. However, his desire to always have more, made him destroy his own home and the birds’, little animals’ and bugs’ that lived there.

Now, upset and sorry, the squirrel was regretful. It was the beginning of the winter and he needed to look for another shelter, if he didn’t want to suffer from the cold.

However, he trusted God. He knew that, as he had found that hole, he’d find another one. He couldn’t give up and should learn from his own mistakes.

So, humbly, he came up to his companions, who were all sad, and told them:

— I apologize. I made a big mistake and now everybody is homeless. But, we can’t give up. I promise to give you guys another tree. Trust God!  

The birds, little animals and bugs got happier, feeling a new sense of hope in their hearts.

And the squirrel, from that day on, never made the same mistake, accepting and adapting to the conditions of life God gave him.        

                                                                       Aunt Célia

 



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