Emphasis Preaching Journal

Weekly the neighborhood kids would get together for a hike. The kids would all pack their lunches and walk several hours to Peter's Pond. There they would catch frogs, swat at flies, and relax in the shade of the huge weeping willow tree. Nobody ever fished in Peter's Pond because everybody knew there was nothing in it.

One day Tad took his brother's microscope down to Peter's Pond. He set up the microscope and looked at all kinds of things: bug wings, moss, leaves, and the like. When he put a drop of water on the slide and invited the other kids to look, they all got the surprise of a lifetime. In that one drop they saw a multitude of life. Through that microscope the kids saw hundreds of single cell animals.

Tommy was so impressed that when he got home he told his mom all about it. He said, "Even though everybody says that there is nothing in Peter's Pond, it is actually full of life! Because of what I saw I will never look at a pool of water in the same way again!" His mother said, "People are like ponds, you think you know them but you don't. It's not until you see what's under the surface -- inside their heart -- that you really know them."