Sermon Illustrations for Proper 27 | OT 32 (2012)
Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
Ted Geisel of Springfield, Massachusetts, wanted to be a writer. He especially wanted to write for children, but his fantasies were a bit weird. He gravitated to drawing cartoons. Then he put his ideas into a book and went to Manhattan and made the rounds of the leading publishers. He hit a wall of rejection. No less than 27 publishing houses turned him down. The most frequent explanation was that his work was "too different" from other children's books.