We Are Never Alone
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 God.
I love that parable. It’s nice to know we are never alone and that we only have to believe for it to be so.
God can be called many names, Source, Universe, Spirit, Divine. What you call it does not matter. The point is that when you ask you shall receive. And for those that do not want to ask the source for help, well that is when you get sent friends!!!!!!
Being a strong woman, I have not always found it easy to ask for help or to trust people enough to allow them to help me. I know it was my issues that were standing in my way of receiving more than i was. I knew that what i expected to see in people or receive from them is what i would get in return.
So i decided to look for the good in people and trust that they would be there to help me if and when i needed it. And the nice thing was that they were.