This is just a little story I put together last year. Tell me what you think.

After God created the heaven and earth, He looked down and saw that the people He created were getting themselves hurt. So He sent down guardian angels to protect them. One day the angels came back and said to God, "We need some help. Regardless of what we do, the people are still getting hurt." When the angels left, God went to work on the specs for His new guardian angels. He said, "I will create an angel that can live on half-eaten meals and can get up in the middle of the night and leave loved ones behind to run into a burning building to save others." God said, "This new guardian angel will be strong enough to pull apart a wrecked car, but still gentle enough to lift an injured child from that car." God knew that this new guardian angel must have a heart made of the purest gold. Their eyes must be able to show love and compassion and not the look of fear that they will feel inside. This new guardian angel must have a reassuring tone that can comfort a bleeding victim but still have a voice that is strong enough to yell, "STAY BACK." Sometime later the angels came back to God and said, "This new guardian angel is your greatest creation of all." God said," I did not create them, they created each other. All I do is comfort them." And because they were forged in the flames of humanity, God called them....... Fire Fighters.


By Orville Murphy, Fire Chief, Board Camp, AR.