#1060: Firebreak

How does a boy know he is becoming a man?

Sometimes, life tells them along the way.

Late in the dry summer, Robert looked out his back door, and saw smoke billowing across his property. A growing fire crawled across his neighbor’s pasture, and threatened to roar into the woods on his land.  He yelled for his two boys, 12 and 15, threw rakes into the truck, and drove toward the fire.

Jumping into action, he and the boys beat back the flames, creating a firebreak and saving the woods - and the elementary school on the other side.

Grimy, exhausted, thirsty, and hearts racing with pride they performed a man’s work that day, those two boys knew they were becoming men.

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