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Cherokee Faith Story
Posted : 16 May, 2008 06:24 AM

> youth's rite of passage?

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> His father takes him into the forest,

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> blindfolds him and leaves him alone.

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> He is required to sit on a stump the whole

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> night and not remove the blindfold until the

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> rays of the morning sun shine through it.

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> He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

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> Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

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> He cannot tell the other boys of this

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> experience because each lad must come

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> into manhood on his own.

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> The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear

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> all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely

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> be all around him. Maybe even some human

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> might do him harm. The wind blew the grass

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> and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat

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> stoically, never removing the blindfold.

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> It would be the only way he

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> could become a man!

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> Finally, after a horrific night, the sun

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> appeared and he removed his blindfold.

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> It was then that he discovered his

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> father sitting on the stump next to him.

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> He had been at watch the entire night,

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> protecting his son from harm.

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> We, too, are never alone.

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> Even when we don't know it,

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> our Heavenly Father is watching over us,

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> sitting on the stump beside us.

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> When trouble comes, all we have

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> to do is reach out to Him.

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> If you liked this story, pass it on.

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> If not, perhaps you took off your

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> blindfold before dawn.

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> Moral of the Story:

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> Just because you can't see God,

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> doesn't mean He is not there.

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> 'For we walk by faith, not by sight.'

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hedgedweller

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Posted : 7 Jun, 2008 01:03 AM

very good,,, i liked it much,,,,,



hedgedweller,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, peace out !!!!

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SJC1985

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Posted : 30 Jul, 2008 05:42 PM

This is a great story of how God is always with us. There have been so many times in my life when I felt so alone; it was then that God's peace came to me. Whenever I am lonely, all I have to do is start talking to God. He takes over my thinking and gets my mind on something/someone else.



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