Ok now that made me cry wow that was both sad and deep and happy at the same
time.


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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:54 PM
Subject: A Matter Of Trust


> Concerning suffering, this goes along with the earlier post.  I just
> received it today.
>
> A MATTER OF TRUST
>
> By carol Pearson
>
>     The little girl, aged about five years, stood nervously
> watching Daddy fix her doll.  "You can put her head back on?"  She
> asked.
>
>     "Well," said Daddy, thoughtfully:  "We are going to put a
> new head on her.  It will be the head we saved from the other
> doll that broke.  OK?"
>
>     The little one considered Daddy's words.  She really wanted
> the doll back, exactly as she was, but knew Daddy would do his
> very best.
>
>     "OK.  How will you do it, Dad?"
>
>     He was already working away at the doll.  He was having to
> make the opening for the head a little larger than it had been and
> he had to find a new way to secure it.  "It was a delicate
> operation," he said, as he went on working.
>
>     She was agitated and continued:  "But you can do it, Dad,
> can't you?"  She felt she couldn't do without that favorite doll.
> It was so much a part of her.  She wanted to cry again, as she had
> when the doll had been mistreated and had broken.
>
>     "Yes," Dad replied, encouraging his little girl and assuring
> her it would be all right.  "We can do it."
>
>     Eventually his daughter was allowed to help with a part of
> the operation and soon the head was fixed again and the doll was
> lying flat, with her new (slightly larger) head, waiting for the
> glue to become firm and hold it in place.
>
>     Years later that little girl could still remember that story.
>
>     One night, as she felt very sad and pained that things were
> changing in her life, her independence appearing to have been
> taken away because of her health problems, she remembered that
> incident.  She was now a grown woman and knew and loved God, her
> Heavenly Father.  He could do far more than her earthly father had
> ever been able to do.  It was wonderful for a little girl to have
> a father who could do so much for her, but now she knew how very
> much more her Heavenly Father meant to her!  He had loved her
> through very many sad times in her life and always had a special
> word for her.  She brought this situation to Him and told Him she
> felt just a little like that day when her doll was having that
> special operation.  She prayed quietly, "Lord, can you heal me
> from this hurting inside and look after me, as nobody else, not
> even my Dad, could have done"
>
>     He replied:  "This sadness is not that you should look
> inward, at yourself, but that you can look upwards to Me and see
> that I am there, working my purposes out, always providing all
> that you need.  Your Dad fixed the doll's head which was so
> important to you then.  Now I am going to fix things for you.
> What is the most important thing on your mind right now?"
>
>     "My Lord, I seem to have lost someone very near and dear,
> yet I know I haven't really, but that's the way it feels to me.
> Things are changing in my life and I am becoming less able.  It's
> the same sort of feeling I have felt so very many times when I
> have lost someone very dear to me."
>
>     "My dear child, you are grieving over your earthly life, what
> you have had and all the helps that have been there for you;  but
> some are not there any more.  They made you feel secure and able
> and capable in all that you did.  Now I want you to trust me, as I
> work on in your life so that you can walk on and trust Me in a new
> way.  You don't know how it will work out for you as you get older
> and your health is worse but, as you trust Me, I will do
> everything that is needed so that you, in turn, can show others
> the true light of My Own Dear Son, Jesus Christ, in all that you
> say and do."
>
>     She looked up and gently said:  "That is an honor, dear
> Lord, to be taken through those difficult times, as my body
> becomes old and no longer works properly and things are not easy
> for me, that You will continue to provide all that I need to take
> me through to enjoy my life eternal, with You!"
>
>     "I trust you, Lord, with all that I do not have, all that I
> cannot do and all that I need for the future, because Your hands
> are big and strong and Your love to me is unending, unchangeable,
> steadfast and sure.  You are wise and caring and know exactly how
> things are with me!"
>
>     That little girl found her doll without a head to be a real
> sadness and a hard problem.  Now she finds her ill health and
> sometimes a lack of help around to be a problem also:  But God is
> there!  He will not fail nor let her down.  He understands how sad
> she is feeling, even when others cannot understand.  He will do
> all He has promised to do for her and, one day (maybe very soon)
> she knows she will see Him face to face!  She will tell Him how
> glad she was that He was there to carry her through the difficult
> times and how He made her to be secure and able to cope, whatever
> came her way!
>
>     This story is simple and serves to tell of one little girl
> who learned first to trust in "her wonderful earthly Daddy" and
> later in her all-knowing, very present, loving Heavenly Father.  I
> know it is true because I was that little girl!
>
>     Today you can trust Him too with whatever makes you feel you
> are hurting and sad.  Don't look at the problem and in at
> yourself but look up and find Him there, ready and willing to do
> far more than you can ever ask or think!
>
> Carol Pearson   Copyright May 2005.
>
>
> Phil C Sharp
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