Fear Not
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is
forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are
all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many
sparrows.
Luke 12:6-7
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When I was six years old we lived in Oklahoma City in a neighbor-
hood where we always kept the doors locked and bolted at night.
To get out the back door, Daddy had a special key that opened
the dead bolt from the inside.
One night I was wakened suddenly by the sound of thunder
and lightning and a torrential downpour. I rushed down the hall
toward my parents' room, but was stopped by billowing smoke
and flames coming from the living room. Our house had been
struck by lightning.
I had to get out, but how? I couldn't reach the front door because
of the flames, and the back door was locked.
On the verge of panic, I was relieved when in the darkness I felt
Daddy's warm hand leading me down the hall and out the back
door to our backyard. As I stood in the pouring rain, his hand let
go of mine and he was gone. Frightened, I turned back to the
house. There was Mom calling my name, "Macy! Macy!"
"Out here," I said. She ran out to me, and together we went around
to the front, where we found Daddy with Kent, the baby, and my
three-year-old sister, Amy.
"You're safe, Macy," he said, sighing with relief. Daddy told me that
he had tried to get to me, but couldn't cross the flames. He had not
guided me down the hall. He had not unlocked the dead bolt on the
back door.
That was twelve years ago, and all these years I've never forgotten
the warmth of the Hand that led me then, and leads me now, through
the dark.
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Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name;
thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with
thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou
walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah 43:1-2
[ Macy Krupicka -- from GAgirl@flash.net ]
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