"The Sugar Child"

Those who know me, know how much I believe in the power of "simple" children's stories as powerful analogies and teaching tools.  They can be a powerful combination of art, truth, and simplicity.

Here are one of those books:
I updated this book onto the theme month of "Life and the Pursuit of Happiness," but since I felt that it powerfully captured the principle of this month, I wanted to share it in it's own posting:

"The Sugar Child" by Monique De.Varennes- an incredible book about a girl made of sugar (kind of like the idea of the gingerbread man) and her parents, knowing that any kind of bad weather or crying will make her sugar melt, protects her from the weather and from grief.  However, it turns out that it is by crying for the sickness and suffering of a friend, that the girl find out that her tears do indeed melt the sugar away, but that this process transforms her into a real girl.  A powerful parable about how a meaningful life and one full of happiness is not found in protecting ourselves from sorrow or pain, but from experiencing the good and the sad... "A time to weep, a time to mourn..." Eccles. 3:1-8