FORTUNE OR MISFORTUNE

 I was walking on a stretch of beach

When I began to stumble

I saw the bottle that made me trip

And it began to rumble

I picked it up and it was sealed

So I pulled the cork to look inside

What happened next was an explosion

I thought that I had almost died

But when the smoke had cleared away

A monstrous genie came into view

“As thanks for freeing me, he said,

I’ll grant three wishes just for you.”

My first wish was for lots of gold

And when I‘d gotten done

I was still on the strip of beach

Burning up under a golden sun

The next thing that I wished for

I had wanted since I was a boy

I’d really like an expensive car

What the genie gave me was a toy

I understood right then what was happening

I asked him to check inside his bottle for me

Once he was inside I sealed the bottle

And then I tossed it back into the sea

A lesson that we can all learn from this is

That we should never be filled with greed

The Lord will open so many doors for us

To provide everything that we’ll ever need