To your delight you learn that the spot where the coin lay helpless in its tomb was an international currency exchange back in the early 1950’s. Tragically the entire small town was destroyed in a fire. Several coins were lost as the people escaped the flames leaving the coins to their doom.
Category: analogy
Leap of Death
You raise your eyebrows in apprehension as a man with a parachute strapped to his back takes a running leap. He pulls the ripcord and his canopy opens displaying its many colorful stripes. On each stripe you notice the name of a good work the man apparently had accomplished in his lifetime.
Sin Revealed and Holy-Spirit Sealed
A shaft of sunlight beamed its way through the window, and like an arrow that hits the bullseye on a target, this beam of sunshine focused on the rear tire wheel well. And there it was – the tiniest dot of rust! What? I never noticed that before! But the sunlight exposed it.