Monday, January 23, 2012

Little Bunny Foo Foo


I woke up this morning mentally singing the old children’s ditty:

Little Bunny Foo Foo, was hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' em' on the head.
Down came the good fairy, and she said...  "Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don't want to see you, scoopin’ up the field mice, and boppin' 'em on the head." 
She said, "You have three chances, or I’ll turn you into a goon (or toad depending on the variation you know.)

So the next day...  Little Bunny Foo Foo, went hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' em' on the head.
Down came the good fairy, and she said...  "Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don't want to see you, scoopin’ up the field mice, and boppin' 'em on the head."   She said, "You have two more chances, or I’ll turn you into a goon

So the next day... Little Bunny Foo Foo, went hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' em' on the head.
Again, down came the good fairy and she said... "Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don't want to see you, scoopin’ up the field mice, and boppin' 'em on the head."  You have one more chance.

So the next day...  Little Bunny Foo Foo, went hoppin' through the forest, scoopin' up the field mice and boppin' em' on the head.
Down came the good fairy, and she said...  "Little Bunny Foo Foo, I said I didn't want to see you, scoopin’ up field mice, and boppin' 'em on the head."  And then she said...  Little Bunny Foo Foo, YOU BLEW IT!  "You had three chances, so now I’ll turn you into a goon!"
And the moral of the story is... 

Ok, so I haven’t been able to let the ditty go, it’s been niggling in the back of my head and about the only way I can fathom why is because I’ve been pondering some of the the scriptures lately;  particulary mulling over some of the folks God chose as examples of his work.  Adam got caught in disobedience and the first thing he did was point at Eve (who in turn pointed at the snake.)  And if Eve is the mother of all who live then I don’t even want to get into who Cain found to marry after he was sent from paradise or Seth’s offspring.  Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, and Isaac … what a tangled web that was!  King Saul flew off on a wild tangent about David.  David had issues of his own (besides keeping out of Saul’s clutches) what with Bathsheba and all.  Jacob and Esau ~ wow, talk about sibling rivalry!   My head is spinning.

I can only presume the ditty was there to remind me of some of the imperfect biblical characters God used and how he might be wanting to use me, as imperfect as I am.

1 comment:

  1. I never thought of it that way. Thanks for the new perspective :)

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