Two frogs swimming in a pail of milk with no way out. One frog gives up and sinks, never to be seen again. What will the other frog do?

When the older frog sank to the bottom of the pail the younger frog cried with dismay, but there was nothing he could do. He could not hold the other frog up in the milk. But he did not give up. He just kept swimming.

The frog swam and swam, splashing his webbed feet around and around. After a while the frog made a game of swimming ten time around each way and then switching. “If I keep going something good will happen,” he kept telling himself. Hour after hour the tired frog swam in circles beating the cream.

All of a sudden, when his strength was nearly gone, his foot struck something solid. What was it? Was it the other frog? No, it was …butter! The frog had churned the milk into butter! He continued to swim and swim until the entire pail was full of firm white butter.

Then, with a tremendous burst of energy, the grog leapt from the pail onto the barn floor just as the farmer’s wife was returning.

“Oh what a day,” she muttered to herself. “It’s nearly noon and I haven’t even churned the butter.”

The little frog hopped away, happy to be alive, but sad that his friend had given up. Meanwhile the farmer’s wife go two surprises that day. Do you know what they were?

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” Newt Gingrich

“When the world says ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”