Moral Short Stories for Children

SUMMER IS ON ITS WAY

A Moral Short Story for Children

—Luisa Rodrigues

The theme of this story serves to illustrate a spiritual truth—

All is well—

In the way God has purposed from the beginning—

Well, as only a Father could have conceived in love impossible for the human mind to conceive, imagine or understand. 

We, who are older, have seen many winters merge into spring—

We understand that to the child, so dependent on outward and visible signs, the waiting seems overlong, and despair creeps very close.

Even in the waiting, God shows His love in a variety of ways. 

He does not say to wait with faith only, but He gives those small signs of new life. 

If we look at our lives with spiritual insight, what we often pass over as chance are simply manifestations that summer is on its way, and in the things of the Spirit, the summertime of the Spirit cannot retreat into autumn or winter again.

Olivia steps out. 

Winter is here. 

The winter wind blows her hood, and her hair blows wildly. 

It is cold this time of year. 

There is frost on the windowpane. 

There is snow everywhere in sight—falling on this winter day.

Seeing one cold winter day after another, the days seem overlong to Olivia.

Olivia asks, “Is summer never coming?”

And the answer is—“By and by.”

Olivia is satisfied for the moment, but again longing springs up fresh and insistent and she cries again—

“Oh, isn't summer ever coming.”

And the wise mother takes her little one to a tree in the garden, saying—

“See, here are the first signs of the spring,” and Olivia, looking at the green buds, is comforted—but not for long.

When the wind blows colder, and winter seems to have retraced its steps, again Olvia says, "You told me that summer was coming! What has happened—Has all gone wrong?"

And the mother then takes her to the first flowers trying to make a show in conditions which seem absolutely against them. 

But no—those conditions are their right environment. 

These flowers are sent when bleakness is all around—sent with their message of hope—sent as a reminder of what nature is holding in store for the days to come. 

And in the joy of their beauty, Olivia is silenced, and she is assured that summer will be with her in reality.

So as the days pass, her attention is directed to this, and to that, and one fine morning, she wakes to a transformed scene—

The winter has merged into spring—

The cold wind has gone—

The grey clouds have passed far away—

The sun, with its warmth and comfort, is shining upon her and upon those she loves so well.

ALL IS WELL.

THE END

Image Credits

Colouring pages’ from SuperColoring.com

The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings | Joan Miró | Natalie Tam

Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

Water-stained glass | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Hard winter | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Winter tree | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Winter scene colour-by-number | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Winter landscape colour-by-number | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Winter owl | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Good Girl by Romero Britt | NatalieTam | Romero Britto | Fair Use

Spring bird | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Spring, flowering branches | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Snowdrops, the first sign of Spring | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Spring daffodils in a jar

Spring scene | Lena London | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Summer Is On Its Way takes its inspiration from Zodiac, the Christ Messenger, Zodiac Messages, New Revelation—Volume II (July-December 1924), Chapter 1, God is Love, 3-4