Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian
youth's rite of Passage?
His father takes
him into the forest, blindfolds him an 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 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,
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 took off your blindfold before
dawn.
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."
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