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A Tiger without stripes
©Seija Maria Tarvainen, Tohmajaervi, Finland
I shall tell you
now a small fairytale from the ancient times, when the continents
were together:
Long time ago in
Africa, there lived one catfamily in the wilderness. They were
tigers without stripes. They lived in the desert catching sick
animals which came with the herd over the desert to get food from
the greener land after the wilderness. The desertcats were
satisfied with sick animals, because the healthy ones ran so
fast, that they could not catch them. During the hot daytime the
desertcats slept in the coolness of a rocky lair. One day a
desertcat decided to go and see, what was there after the
wilderness and came to a great unknown forest.
The desertcat
thought: ""It's so nice the stay here, there is much
water to drink and so green", and lay down to sleep. At last
the desertcat became hungry. It tried to catch an anthilope, but
the anthilope saw it from afar and leaped away. The desertcat
tried to catch a rabbit, but the rabbit saw the desertcat from
afar and slipped into its earthenhole. The desertcat tried to
catch an infant elephant, but the mother elephant saw the
desertcat from afar and tossed water over the desertcat.
"How could I
become invisible that I could catch prey in these green
areas?" , asked the desertcat from the owl. "Go to
Kilimandjaro-mountain and at the foot of the mountain you will
get the answer", rumoured the owl. The desertcat ran being
very hungry at the foot of Kilimandjaro-mountain and from afar he
was seen by a heron. "How could I become invisible that I
could catch prey in these green areas?", asked the desertcat
from the heron. "Climb up the halfway of the
Kilimandjaro-mountain and there you will get the answer",
yelled the heron. The desertcat climbed being very hungry up the
halfway the Kilimandjaro-mountain and there he was seen by a
shaman. "How could I become invisible that I could catch
prey in these green areas?", asked the desertcat from the
shaman. "Go upper the Kilimandjaro-mountain and on the top
of the mountain you must roll about in the ashes and sleep a day
in the bushes", answered the armoured shaman. After that the
shaman spelled and jumped around his fire and threw animal fat
into the fire and some colourpowders.
The desertcat
rolled around in the ashes and slept a day in the bushes on the
top of the Kilimandjaro-mountain. The sun was shining very
brightly and into the bushes came some stripes of the sunshine.
The desertcat sweatted in the bright sunshine. The stripes
became, when the sooty sweat colored striped his fur. Then his
fur dried in the sunshine. The tiger with stripes came halfway
down to "thank" the shaman and ate him, because the
shaman did not wear his armour. After this the tiger went to
India.That is why tigers are even today having stripes and they
are very dangerous.
Have you noticed,
that some people treat you like a tiger without stripes? They put
you to walk, run, climb, sweat and lay that you may earn your
"stripes", so that you can catch haul. After you have
got your "stripes", you are not at all thankful to your
"helpers", but attack, because you are very hungry. In
this rat race many have gone over the "wilderness" to
reach a greener pasture. Many kind of advisers have come there to
meet you. After you have received you "stripes", it has
become very hard to come back home. Has this thing has made you
evil, like the tiger became? Do you have to hide in bushes, like
a tiger?
Jesus has today a
prescription to remove ugly and evil "stripes". Let the
water of forgiveness and the soap of the the Holy Bible wash your
"stripes" away. Dry your clean fur in the sun of mercy
and return home to your christian church. There you can rest in
the cool cave of the resurrected Jesus Christ away from the
deserts heat. There you will be satisfied, because Jesus himself
is the Bread of Life. You are no longer to people a dangerous
tiger with stripes, but a meek desertcat, who purres.
in Finnish
