The Broken Candle

Aspiring to his Pastors congregational involvement campaigns a ten year old boy selects a beautiful white candle to present during a segment of the Sunday evenings worship service. Such weekly events encouraged church youths for bringing forth offerings of a symbolic nature that might inspire the Pastors message the following Sunday. Having carefully placed the candle within his bag the young boy attends the service and anxiously awaits his call to present his item of choice. The boy is confident that his choice of items for presentation to the Pastor will surely guide thoughts in delivery of an object lesson in the following weeks sermon.The boys pulsing hopes are dashed when upon peering into and drawing the candle from his bag it is found as having been broken in a fall earlier that evening. The little boys heartbreak and disappointment will surprisingly vanish the very next Sunday when the symbolic nature of the broken candlle provides the Pastor thoughts to one of his best spiritual lessons for the congregation as a whole.