• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Jared Dees

Author. Speaker. Teacher.

  • About
    • Now
    • Projects
    • Jared’s Newsletter
    • Contact
  • Books
    • New! Goals to Gold
    • New! The Gospel According to Video Games
    • New! Just Plant Seeds
    • Beatitales
    • Take and Eat
    • Prepare the Way
    • Take Up Your Cross
    • 15-Minute Stations of the Cross for Kids
    • View All Books
  • Events
  • Articles
  • Stories for Kids
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter

The Weed: A Fable about the Fifth Commandment

A weed grew in a garden full of vegetables. The weed saw how much the farmer loved the vegetables. The weed hated them.

The weed grew and grew so it could overcome the other plants. It intertwined its vines and established new roots of new weeds to grow and take all the water and sun away from the food-bearing plants.

The weeds grew throughout the garden. The vegetables stopped growing.

The farmer returned. He saw the weeds and was shocked with how fast they had grown, he took a shovel and a knife and cut the roots of all the weeds in the garden.

Meanwhile, there were weeds in the fields outside of the garden. They grew alone without any food-bearing plants around them.

They looked at the weeds in the garden and felt pity for them. They let the vegetables grow and found other places to get their sun and water instead.

The Fifth Commandment: You shall not kill.

Footer

Connect with Jared Dees

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Jared Dees is passionate about sharing practical resources to teach faith. He is best known for his website The Religion Teacher and is the author of many books including 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, Christ in the Classroom, and Beatitales: 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children. See all of Jared's Books →

Stories for Children

Copyright © 2025 · Jared Dees