Morality Shorts: Short, Short Stories with a Poetic Twist

By Miatta Lynn Lansana

Morality Shorts is a compilation of stories filled with life lessons and values. Christians and non-Christians alike will enjoy and reflect on these melodic, anecdotal tales written to make everyone talking, thinking, and searching about how life should be lived. The line between right and wrong remains

• Language: English
• Publisher: EA Media and Publishing
• Release date: Jan 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781957384009

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Little Johnny Maple’s Prayer

While sitting in a church on a cold winter day, Little Johnny Maple began to pray: Dear Heavenly Father, please show me your son’s face. If you show me his face, all my pain will go away.

During the boy’s prayer, the light of God began to shine on his face. All who stood by began to tremble with fear, and then someone said, What manner of a child is this that he is able to bring the presence of God here? No one touched Little Johnny Maple while he trembled on the ground as a band of angels circled around. Soon the angels disappeared, and there stood Little Johnny Maple on his legs for the first time while many wonder how and why.

Then Little Johnny Maple raised his voice and said, Why do you question this miracle that came straight from God’s heart, and why can’t you believe God’s healing power won’t depart? The Christians who have been in the faith for a long time didn’t say a word; they just closed their eyes and ears to what they just had seen and heard. Little Johnny Maple, hurt by the hardness of their hearts, pushed his wheelchair to the door and said, I pray God will reveal himself to you in a mighty way because it’s not right for Christians to play with their faith. He then pushed his wheelchair out the door, never to be seen or heard of by them anymore.

Hidden Treasures

There once was an old lady who had stories she loved to tell to her seven grandsons, Mat, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, and Windell. She would tell them stories about her childhood and how God brought her through. She would tell them all the places she had been, and all she had gone through. All these stories her seven grandsons understood, but with the last one she told, they didn’t see any earthly good. It was the one that would one day save their lives; it was the one about God’s son, Jesus Christ. She talked about this man who came to earth and died for humanity’s sins, and he didn’t stop there. He rose from the grave to sit at the right hand of his father until this very day. They didn’t understand until after their grandmother died, when they were searching for the true meaning of life.

Then they remembered the part that was unique from all the stories their grandmother told: it was the part about the Holy Bible helping her in good times and in tragedy. They searched high and low in their grandmother’s room for the hidden treasure. The Holy Bible—they knew it was all they need. After searching for hours, the seventh grandson, Windell, spotted a brown box with some kind of writing on it. What did it say?

He wasn’t able to tell. He just called the others over as he broke off the seal. When it was open, they all looked with surprise because there it was, the Holy Bible, and hidden inside was a picture of them and their grandmother