This is interesting to read

[DENNIS]

From Yater's:
>
> Do you known the legend of the Cherokee Indian
> youth's rite of passage?
> His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him
> and 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, our Heavenly Father
> is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us.
> When trouble comes,
> all we have to do is reach out to Him.
 
 

   

[Melody]

that's neat.  I've never heard that before.