Little fear, big fear of the Transformation

Jo 12, 20-33-5

Author: Cecília Pellegrini

In a beautiful forest, two friend flowers lived, Florisbela and Florentine. Someday appeared a small, beautiful seed, brought by the wind.

She brought with her a little box containing her belongings: clothes, shoes, bags...

So started a beautiful friendship.

Certain day Lady Chicken came to sweep close by and she greeted the seed, with a very warm “Hi”.

The seed was very lively and soon she began to tell that she was rolling down the slope until arriving in that forest.

Suddenly she realized that chickens eat seeds and she ran to hide.

Lady Chicken calmed her down saying: - Do not worry little seed, I already ate lunch and I heard that you will be planted today.

The seed, very admired questioned: - Will I be planted? Will I change? Will I make the passage? Ah no, I don't want. Oh, that little fear, big fear!

The poor seed completely loses hope.

Lady Chicken is at loss and she asks the flowers for help: - What can I make now friends? That seed had a nervous breakdown!

Florisbela then tries to calm the agitated seed, already rumpled: -Calm down, calm down, my little seed!

I admit that when they planted me I was also with some fear, but later I understood that was necessary.

Florentine runs to help Florisbela in the mission of tranquilizing the seed: - See, a child planted me and I became a perfumed flower.

The seed calms down a little and she smells Florentine: - Really, you are very perfumed, but I am just a little seed, that only makes good. I want to be always like this: round, brownish, always a seed. Moreover, there is more, I already organized my little box, have just bought new clothes, shoes, jewelry. Lady Chicken that everything asked: - Wow, how many small things, so many little these and those! How much are you attached to, get out of that; you need to be prepared for the great change.

The seed is disturbed again and angrily says: - It is enough, Lady Chicken!

She goes to a corner where her little box is and she hides, saying: - I want you all to leave me alone. Let me be here, quiet, safe...

The chicken, with all her experience says: - An unplanted seed will always be a seed.

The seed closes her ears with her hands and begins to sing: - There, there, there, I am not hearing anything...

The chicken comments on with the flowers: - Poor seed, she is so afraid that she does not notice that she needs to die to bear fruits.

Soon after, she says good-bye and goes to her hen house, in a ranch close to the forest.

The seed is very sad with everything that she heard and she begins to speak half irritated: - Friend, friend... That beautiful friend that chicken. She speaks like this because it will not be she that will be buried. It will become dark, I will change. Oh, that fear, little fear, big fear... I would rather be here, silent, always seed.

A long silence falls at the forest, until a gardener and his son interrupted it. Seeing the seed inside of the little box, the father says: - See my son, a beautiful seed. As a good gardener, I have to plant her. Fortunately, I brought my gardening tools. Come to help me son.

The son is willing to help, but he wants to know: - How do you make it, dad?

As a master in the art of planting the father explains: - It is very simple, you make a hole in the earth, get the seed and put it inside of the hole, there you cover with earth to the top, later you have to wet, take care with love and after some weeks you will have a great surprise.

The vivacious son says that he wants to make the hole immediately.

The father seeks his shovel but sees that he did not bring it. He decides then to return to their house to get it.

The seed was shaking with closed eyes and the flowers, seeing that the gardener left, start talking. Florisbela was the first to speak: - Little seed, your hour is coming!

The seed cries: - Oh that fear, little fear, big fear... It will be a tragedy, the end of everything.

Florentine runs to calm her friend: - You made a mistake, a radical transformation will happen. It will be the beginning of a new life.

Florentine words strike down in the heart of the seed and already calm she questions - Will I be in a new life?

The friends answer yes.

However, noticing that she is still afraid she questions - But what can I make with that whole fear?

Really, the teeth of the poor seed were screeching, her arms and legs rattling.

With a soft voice, Florentine explains: - Transformation happens at all times and during the whole life.

You were born little, you grew, learned to speak, later you came rolling to this forest...

The seed demonstrating that she was acquiescent was soon saying: - Yes, yes, I am very different from the day I was born. There was the time when I changed the baby teeth for the permanent, there was the day that I went to school for the first time. In the beginning, I was afraid of the size of the school, but the teacher treated me with so much affection that I began to like it...

Florisbela confirms - Then, you already went by so many transformations! You need to understand that passage that will happen...

The flower stopped speaking because she notices that is here are coming.

It was the gardener and his son bringing the shovel: - Ready son, now gives you can dig a hole.

Lady Chicken arrives and as she sees the planting scene, she begins to sing (parody: The House, of Vinícius de Moraes).

“It once was a seed,

So little, so simple!

That with love was well planted

Moreover, with love, it was well taken care

Moreover, suddenly what happened?

A beautiful tree was born

In our house, it came to tell

That it was necessary to transform

(Encore)

Together with us it will grow

And many fruits we’ll have”

Moreover, it is not that everything the Lady Chicken sang happened?

The time passed and the gardener and his son took care with love of the seed: they watered it lovingly; when the first branch appeared, they kept watering, later they pruned it and a beautiful apple tree grew. As like thanking for so much care, the seed, now a beautiful tree was replete of apples, very sweet apples...

When the son sees the tree with such delicious fruits, he runs to her delighted...

The father tells the son: - Those fruits will feed us, the little birds... Let us get a basket to pick apples and mom will make a delicious pie.

The two come out happy, now without saying anything because their mouths were full of so much delight.

The apple-tree begins to dance of so much happiness and it tells its friends: - Oh, I am feeling well, oh, I am so happy!

Florisbela, remembering the past says: - Ah, but who said that she only wanted to be a seed, that she was happy that way?

So the former-seed explains: - It is because I did not know that the passage, which happens with all, was so important, so wonderful, so...

The Lady Chicken, with all her wisdom, says: - So full, so fruitful! You will now be able to feed all!

Florentine also speaks: - This is such a donation!

Lady Chicken and the flowers end: - That is love!

The former-seed, now a beautiful fruitful tree closes that story saying: - It was necessary to change to learn to love!