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Bubbles in the Lamplight
Bubbles drifted along peacefully,
looking for someone to believe the thought he carried.

A man reached out and caught him.

“Ah,” Bubbles perked up.

“You failed again,” he whispered.
“That’s who you are.”

The man’s shoulders sank.

“Yeah…” he agreed.
“I’m a failure.”

For a moment, it felt true.

But truth and feelings
aren’t always the same.

The man paused
and lifted Bubbles
into the lamplight.

Lifting Bubbles into the lamplight
meant checking the thought
against God’s truth in the Bible.

The thought said, “I’m a failure.”

But in the lamplight, he remembered:
failing doesn’t make him a failure.

In God’s light, the lie lost its power.
God’s truth, not the lie,
had the final word.

God loves him.

The light of that truth
gave the man courage
as Bubbles slipped away.

“Hmm,” Bubbles said.
“Another one tested by the light.”

And off he drifted, looking for another story to join.