Almost Forgot

This was sent to me by Grandma Bone, who is part Cherokee and I wanted to share it.

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?

His father takes him into the forest,
blindfolds him and leaves him alone.

He is required to sit on a stump the whole
night and not remove the blindfold until the
rays of the morning sun
shine through it.

He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives
the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this
experience
because each lad must come
into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally
terrified. He can hear
all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely
be
all around him. May! be even some human
might do him harm. The wind blew the
grass
and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat
stoically, never
removing the blindfold.
It would be the only way he
could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night, the sun
appeared and he
removed his blindfold.

It was then that he discovered his
father sitting
on the stump next to him.
He had been at watch the entire night,
protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone.
Even when we
don't know it,
our Heavenly Father is watching over us,
sitting on the
stump beside us.

When trouble comes, all we have
to do is reach out to
Him.

Moral of the Story:
Just because you can't see God,
doesn't mean He is not there
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.'
~
2 Corinthians 5:7 ~