SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT....MARCH 28 2012.....

Today's blog is a little different.  For a change it is not about me.  Enough is enough.

I just thought I would share something with you that I have run across several times throughout the years. 

CHEROKEE LEGEND

This is the legend of the Cherokee 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 entire night and cannot 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, his stump shook, 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 only then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him.

He had been watching the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

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

Just because you can't see God, it doesn't mean He isnot there.

When you feel over-whelmed, over-burdened, over-worked, and think there is no one to care, just remember.  Your FATHER is sitting on the stump next to you.

Have a good day and God Bless.