“15th story”
First published; Nov.30.2017
Once again I would like to share an advisory tale from my childhood.
There was a little part of the world where many animals lived close to each other peacefully.
They lived by a pond and shared water for drinking, washing, and cooling down.
The weather was getting warmer every day, and the pond’s water was evaporating and there was no rain to replace it for months.
The situation was getting a little scary and was starting to concern the animals, so they gathered to talk about the problem. There wasn’t anything they could do but pray for rain.
Everyone was getting sad and depressed. They were losing hope.
One of the animals suggested that if one animal climbed a big hill daily and saw any cloud from far away it could jump up and down to show the good news and bring hope to others. They all agreed that bringing hope can be a huge help.
The next day, a horse climbed up the hill but there wasn’t even a tiny bit of cloud far in the sky. He came down so sadly.
Then a cow went up the next day and saw nothing.
Day after day one animal after another came down the hill without any signs of a cloud. Time was passing and the animals were on the verge of giving up.
It was the goat’s turn to climb the hill.
When he didn’t see any clouds far in the sky, he was very disappointed but decided to start jumping up and down on top of the hill and continued to the bottom hill with joy and happiness.
On the way down the goat begged God to forgive him for lying only to bring hope to others, and asked God to please send rain to not let the animals lose faith.
All the other animals started to jump up and down and became so happy. They began celebrating.
The goat was satisfied that he caused happiness. But he just passed hope, and he didn’t see any cloud.
But the weather started getting dark, they all felt the wind and white and grey clouds coming towards them.
Lots of rain poured that night and many nights after that.
What a wonderful story of hope 🙂
Thanks so much for always commenting and reading the stories 😍
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Loving your stories, Laleh, especially that it always includes a twist of wisdom.
Love u. Thanks a lot❤️
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Reblogged this on Have We Had Help? and commented:
Another wonderful tale from Laleh 😉
Thanks a lot Jack😍
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Thanks a lot😍
Thank You too my friend ❤
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I do believe the miracle of hope.
Hope is very important in human life. I am glad you brought it up in this story. Well done.
Hope is what pushes me to start all over every morning.❤️
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IF GOATS KNOW WHOM TO ASK…CAN WE DO ANYTHING LESS???? 🙂
Thanks again dear Jonathan 😍
I enjoyed this story! God answers the humble prayer.
btw; minor typo: “it start[ed] to concern”
Thanks 🙏😍
A lovely tale of hope and faith.
Thanks so much Peter. Appreciate it.🌹
rain dance
hopes pranced
dashing
cashing in
and out
What would we ever do without hope. Thanks John.🌹
Wow positivity
Awesome story👌👌👌👍
Thanks so much dear.🌷
Great post
Thanks so much dear.🌹
Your welcome lovely ❤️
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With the news in the world now we need that goat to jump up and down and for all of us to believe that better days will come. Thank you Laleh for this lovely story.
😂😂😂what a wonderful point you made Anne, world is going depress. We need many miracles. Thanks sweetheart.❤️
Thank you dear.
Great story.. Thank You.. 😊💛😊
Thank you for reading dear.
The power of “group mentality” and positive thinking is so beautiful portrayed in this post. Thank you, Laleh, for being such a bright light of hope for others. You live in such a mysterious country to many of us who do not live there. May you be blessed for having such a pure heart in a land that is known for so much violence. Much love to you! xo
Thanks so much sweetheart, you’re very kind. My families are still in Iran but I live in Canada.
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I did not know this. It must be terribly difficult for you knowing your families are still in Iran. May Love surround them at all times and protect them! xo
It’s terrifying specially in the Corona virus situation. People are managing everything themselves, it’s like the government is completely dead. So sad.🌹
Yes, people are managing, Laleh. I’ve completely stopped watching the news (have for a long time) and refuse, just refuse to get dragged into the Corona virus panic media is creating. You are also correct in saying government does not seem to care. So so sad indeed!!
May God help.🌹
Amen!
Hope for what is not yet seen, faith that a heart with hope; just needs to first believe… it’s truly possible! Nice share!
Thanks a million Warren. ❤️
You’re very welcome!
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Wonderful
Happy spring.🌹
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Thanks for sharing dear.🌹
Thanks to you for your kind visit to the blog.
Grazie a te per la gradita visita al blog
My pleasure dear.
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This is a wonderful tale!
Thanks a lot for sharing it
Thanks for reading dearest Luisa.🌷
You are so very welcome 💐
It’s always my pleasure
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this is s wonderful story of Hope and hhappiness
Thank you Anne.❤️
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What a lovely story.. thank you.. Fiona ❤️
Thanks dear Fiona for your kind visit.💝
What an inspiring and motivational story of hope! It leads me to think about what just happened in your country. Do you think there’s now hope for more democratic reforms or would things still stay the same?
These shows will not change anything for people. The evil government just plays with people and the world. But of course world is benefiting, by buying cheap oil because of sanctions. Government becomes rich and people poor.
Shame on USA.
I thought the death of an autocratic president was a window for a new, progressive leadership to take over. Oh well, still hoping for better state of affairs for your people.
We hope so too. Thanks dear.🙏🌷
Just superb
Thank you.🙏🌷
Power of hope and also of spreading joy and happiness.
Appreciate your kindness.🌺
Even when we don’t control our destiny, hope can exist if we want to believe. Nice thought.
Have you been writing stories more recently?
Thanks dear.
My recent book was a children book called Vitiligo Made Me Beautiful’
And I’m on the path of publishing a collection of folktales which I gathered all these blogging years ago. Thanks for asking.🙏🌷
I see. Might you publish some of them separately in blog form?
Yes I have. Now I’m putting them together.
Will they be available on Amazon?
I think you would be an excellent author at the upcoming Miami Book Fair in November. https://www.miamibookfair.com/
Thanks a million dear friend. I will check it.🙏