Did you ever feel like a frog?  How should you know?  You don't know what a frog feels like?  

Let me tell you. Frogs feel slow, low, ugly, puffy, drooped, pooped.

The frog feeling comes when you want to be bright, but feel dull.  You want to share, but are selfish.  You want to be big, but are small.  You want to care, but are indifferent.

Now there's a fairy tale about a frog.

Once upon a time there was a frog.  But he wasn't really a frog.  He was a prince who looked and felt like a frog.  A wicked witch had cast a spell on him.  Only the kiss of a beautiful young maiden could save him.  But since when do cute chicks kiss frogs?  So there he sat -- unkissed prince in frog form.

But miracles happen. One day a beautiful maiden grabbed him up and gave him a big smack.

Crash -- boom -- zap! There he was -- a handsome prince. And you know the rest.  They lived happily ever after.

Wes Seeliger, Episcopal minister from Houston, Texas, has turned this fairy tale into a parable and given it fresh meaning by asking, "So what is the task of the church?" and answering, "To kiss frogs, of course!"

But not only is it the task of the church, it is the task of each one of us.  The good news is that, by your attention to another, you may turn a frog into a prince or princess.