George Learns A Really Valuable Lesson

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va. there lived a man named George who was a want-to-be scientist. He’d been interested in science since he was 8 years-old and saw a man come to his class and demonstrated how cool it was to do various experiments on things and watch them do amazing stuff, but whenever George tried to do them something always seemed to go wrong. When he tried to demonstrate how a bunsen burner worked, he ended up knocking it off the table which burned down not just the class, but the whole school went up in flames. The teacher kind of frowned on that and gave him an F on his report card, and it didn’t stand for Fantastic either. The next semester he was demonstrating how atomic energy worked and ended up making a small atomic bomb which blew up the same amount of his school again. The next semester he touched 2 electrodes together to have them make a spark, but he ended up short circuiting the whole school and since it was in March and it was so cold, they ended up having to send all the children home since they had no heat. The next semester he tried to demonstrate how a volcano would ooze laza out of it but he ended up having it erupt and spewed hot ashes all over everybody in the class, especially his teacher. That time he gave him a passing grade because he didn’t want him to fail and come back to repeat another year in his class. No matter what George tried to do, it always seemed to go wrong. Anne, his science teacher would say, “blow up in his face,” or rather the teacher's face.

Much to his science teacher’s chagrin, he was assigned to retake chemistry because he failed the final exam which was graded by the principal of the school. It seemed as if George was destined for failure in that department. That was something he had accepted about himself.

His parents even hired a major scientist to come over and tooter him, but George was just simply unable to memorize what was in his schoolbook. That was discouraging to his parents.

Then while George was experimenting on what would happen if he mixed certain things to- gether to find out what they would do. That’s when he accidentally mixed some chemicals which were each supposed to remedy the common cold. He combined several different kinds of chemicals together with a lot of vitamin c, because he knew that would help cure several illnesses. While doing that, something blew up, slamming him up against the wall and knocking him down on the floor. When he finally got his bearings clear, he went back to see why it had done that, but what had happened was he’d found a cure for the common cold. Since his mom happened to have a cold at that moment, he slipped the powdered medicine into her food just before she got to the table and sat down to eat. The first thing she said was a complaint about how awful she felt from the cold and how she couldn’t afford to be sick since she was a really important business executive at her job. Yet the moment she ate some of the food that George had sprinkled the potion on, she shouted, “Wow! Suddenly I feel perfect! Now, I don’t know what just happened to me, but whatever it was, I feel fantastic!” she said with a clear head. Then she hopped up to her feet, grabbed her keys and ran out of the house yelling, “I’ll see you this evening when I get off of work! I’ve never felt this great in my whole life! Wow!”

When George saw her skipping out the door to her car, he snickered. He knew what had happened to her. The next thing he did was take it to his family practitioner saying he’d found a cure for the common cold. After the doctor figured out the ingredients that were in George’s miracle drug, he patted him on the back. Then told him he’d be world-famous since he’d done something doctors had been trying to do for centuries. He told him he’d be a very rich man soon. After he’d sent his ingredients in, money poured in to him. His mom set it aside for his college education at Princeton University, one of the finest colleges in the whole country. His whole family was on Cloud 9, floating all the way to the bank. His mother bought some mink coats and diamond broaches. His daddy bought a new Mercedes and a 50 foot yacht so he could go fishing anywhere and take everybody in his office who wanted to go with him. They even got a full scholarship to Harverd for his older brothers and sisters. They were ecstatic.

Then they began to get greedy and bought everything that they’d ever wanted. His daddy started gambling lots of money on things such as games and races. His mom invested lots of money in stocks and bonds. Each time they went up, they’d celebrate George’s good fortune by buying lots more shares. They also retired, even though they were quite young. Life was good.

That was all because of George’s discovery. Later his parents invested money in his college education. Soon his parents had spent most of the money they had made off of George’s discovery. He still had a few years of school to go yet before he’d be ready for college so his parents put money aside for that. That was when he bought some stronger chemicals to work with since he could afford to buy them. Yet when he mixed 2 of them together, it made such a tremendous explosion it blew 2 thirds of his house up. That included all those expensive things his parents had bought. Not only had they squandered away all the money they’d made from his discovery, but they didn’t have anything left since they’d gone crazy with the money he hadn’t even made yet with his common-cold cure. That meant they had to reluctantly sell a lot of the things they’d bought with money he hadn’t even gotten yet. Then George remembered something his pastor had read in Church several weeks ago, “The love of money’s the root of all evil.” He realized getting rich wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Besides, another Scripture he remembered was, “It’s easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” That made him actually regret earning all the money he’d made because of his cure for the common cold. Still, being a devout Penticostal Christian, he wanted to make the Lord happy more than anything in the world. He prayed for God to change all his bad circumstances into good ones for him and his parents at bed-time and then he went to bed.

When he woke up the next morning, he had a feeling that something had happened in his life, but he didn’t know what it was. He’d forgotten about the things he’d prayed about the night before so he went to his pretty flower garden right in front of his house. That’s when it hit him, (an idea, not the garden). He advised his parents to sell some of the things they had bought with the money they didn’t have yet. They reluctantly did so, even though it was quite difficult. Then they carefully invested some money in more practical. His parents had also learned how, like the Word clearly states, “The love of money’s the root of all evil.” Yet they still gave the Lord above and beyond the 10 percent He wanted, that meant it was a tithe and a teenth, which is what’s called paying more than then the 10 percent that belongs to Him anyway. So George’s parents both learned a really valuable lesson about not allowing their minds to get bigger than their wallets. They also learned that money is good, but it shouldn’t rule or change your life for the worse. That’s the moral of this short story. Take it to heart because it will save you a lot of trouble in the long run, that’s true.

By, Cuz Roye, ….1-434-849-8268. Please give me a ring, but I’m not proposing. Just cause my phone to play that beautiful one-note melody which would be pure music-to-my-ears. Thank you