The Happy Heart Family

Mr. and Mrs. Heart

Faith, Hope and Love

I would like to introduce you to the Heart family, who love each other very much.  They live in a peaceful garden among many beautiful, colorful flowers and butterflies that visit their garden in the Springtime.

Mr. and Mrs. Heart loved each other very much and were very proud of their three little girls, Faith, Hope and Love.   The three little girls loved their mommy and daddy and always wanted to

obey them. Every day their daddy would remind them how important it was to keep the garden safe by their obedience.


In the morning before daddy left for work he would remind his girls, " Faith, you will have faith as long as you obey me but when you don;t you will become fearful."  "Hope, as long as you obey me you will have hope, but when you don't you will begin to doubt."  "Love, oh please always obey me because if you don't I will lose you in unbelief and you will want to leave the Garden."


Daddy had only one very important RULE, and it was that the girls were never to let any one into the Garden without his permission. Their safety depended on their obedience. Faith, Hope and Love played happily in the Garden every day without any arguments.They knew how to share their toys and to speak kindly to each other


One morning Hope  was up before her sisters and went out into the Garden for a walk, when she heard a knock at the Garden gate. "Who is it," she asked.  "It is a friend of your father and I have a message for him."


"But I can't let you in." said Hope.  But then Doubt replied,"Little Hope, your father knows me, He just didn't tell you I was stopping by." Hope began to doubt. She thought it really couldn't hurt anything  He says he is a friend of her daddy's, so Hope opened the gate to the garden and let in Mr. Doubt.


When Faith saw what Hope had done she said,"Now look what you did Hope,  You have let doubt into the Garden.  Now what are we going to do?"

Hope was so sad . She hung her head in shame.  Mr. Doubt went over to the gate to let in his other two friends, Mr. Fear and Mr Unbelief.
Faith and Love raced over and quickly shut the gate. "Oh no you don't Mr. Doubt.  You have to leave right now. "  Daddy heard the girls shouting and immediately went to see what was the matter.

 When he saw that it was Mr. Doubt he didn't waste any time. He confronted Mr.Doubt face to face and he melted like ice in hot water.  He was NO MORE. 

Mr. Heart called his girls together to talk with them. "Faith and Love you did well not letting fear and unbelief into the Garden, but Hope, I am afraid I can't leave you alone without Faith and Love. ever again.We need you Hope in our family to be faithful and obedient because as you grow up your two sisters Faith and Love will need your strength."  Daddy hugged Hope as she humbly responded,"Yes, daddy I will never open the gate again without your permission."   Faith, Hope and Love grew to be very wise and together they kept Fear, Doubt and Unbelief out of the Garden all the days of their lives..

The Lazy Beaver

Bucky, the beaver was a lazy little fellow.  He wanted to play all day and sleep at night. When his friends were busy building their lodges for the coming winter, Bucky wanted nothing to do with it.His father had taught him how to build a lodge when he was younger, but now he thought he would have plenty of time to build a home before the cold weather  However, winter was very early that year and he had to build his dam very fast.


Because he was so late starting to build his lodge, he forgot what his father told him.  NEVER BUILD close to the shore line. But Bucky was in a hurry and didn't listen to his father's instructions. He thought that by building his lodge near the shore he wouldn't have to swim so far to construct his winter home. Bucky built his lodge twice as fast as all his friends and then waited for the cold weather.


Later on, when the cold winter winds began to blow, Bucky headed for his home.  One night, while he was sleeping, the temperature dropped below zero.  Ice began to form over Bucky's home. In the morning, when Bucky woke up and tried to get out of his house, both doors were frozen over with ice.  Bucky was trapped.  He had built his lodge too close to the shore and that is the first place where the pond freezes.

Meanwhile, a little boy, Johnny Achers was up early and heading down to the pond to ice skate.  His friend Philip was on his way to the pond too  When the two boys met, they noticed Bucky's lodge was too close to the shore.  Johnny said,"Hey, Phil, what is this beaver thinking about? Doesn't he know that it is very dangerous to build near the shore line?"  No sooner had Johnny spoken, when the boys heard crying.  "Do you hear crying, Johnny?" asked Phil


"I sure do Phil.  I think it is coming from inside that beaver lodge." Johnny bent down to look inside the door and sure enough, curled up in a ball was the little beaver, shivering with fright.There was no way of escape for Bucky. He had built his house too close to the shore and all the water under the lodge, as well as around it, was frozen.  Bucky was trapped unless the boys could break the ice and punch a hole for Bucky to swim away.

Johnny left to see if he could find a heavy piece of wood to smash the ice, while Phil stayed and talked to Bucky,  "We will get you out my friend.  Just be patient."  Johnny returned with just the right size piece of wood..  Within a few minutes the boys had smashed a large enough hole for Bucky to escape.  

Bucky quickly disappeared through the ice hole into the pond.They never saw him again.  I wonder where Bucky went? Perhaps he was taken in by another beaver family during the cold winter nights.  Whatever happened, one thing is for sure, Bucky NEVER BUILT HIS HOUSE  too close to shore ever again.

The boys put on their skates and started practicing for the hockey game that afternoon. When the guys arrived for the hockey game, Johnny and Phil couldn't wait to tell them about Bucky.

Johnny and Phil  practicing their ice hockey