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Lets get back to parables.

What is a parable? The 1828 Webster's dictionary (my personal favorite) describes a parable as a "fable or allegorical relation or representation of something in real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction…" Those are pretty fancy words especially for someone like me. So let me explain them to you through a story: There was a man, with a hard heart. He was a soldier who had seen pain beyond understanding. He looked death in the eye many times. He almost made death his friend by taking his own life after one of his closest friends was blown to bits from a mine. One thing kept him going, his wife and unborn child.  He was determined to get home to them and be the father that that child needed. Many months past and he kept going his heart beating more for them every day. He imagined their reunion in his mind and it kept him fighting. Finally, the day came, he was on his way home! The trip couldn't have gone faster his shook his leg the wh

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