One father takes his son 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. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat there, 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 GOD is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him. If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you take off your blindfold before dawn.
Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there!!
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"Just because you dont see God ----
You know how much fuss the surgeons of today make about hand washing(scrubbing) sterlisation ,gowning and 'masking'! --just a century earlier One Professor Samuel semmelweis was mocked and ridiculed by the elite surgeons of those days for asking them to wash their hand before delivering babies!! they used to have the waste cloths and dirtier materials to deal with deliveries as they were convinced that the whole lot is unclean- until louis pasteir demonstrated the 'invisible' micro organisms(made visible thru' microscope!)and the havoc they can cause! Until this day the 'elite' find it difficult to accept the power that is every where but still chooses to remain 'invisible'!!
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