WE ARE NEVER ALONE
Have you ever heard the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage?
The boy’s father takes him blind folded into the forest, and leaves him alone.
The boy is required to sit on a tree stump the whole night and take off the blindfold until the first ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself.
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. Each boy must come into his own manhood.
The boy is terrified, he could hear all kind of noises, and beasts were all around him. Maybe even some human who would do him harm. The wind blew the grass and leaves, and it even shook his stump. But the boy sat stoically, never removing the blind fold. It would be the only way that he could truly become a man.
Finally, after spending a terrifying night, the sun appeared and the boy removed his blindfold. Upon doing so, it was then that he saw his father sitting on the stump next to him, at watch the entire night, to protect him.
Like the Indian boy, we are never alone. Even when we do not know it, our Father is right there protecting us. He is sitting on the stump beside us.
All you have to do is reach out to Him.
- - -Author Unknown- - -
“Abouna” Gregori
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