[Singles] FW: Cherokee Indian legend

[Katherine Jones]

________________________________
From: Dennise Mendez
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:04 AM
Subject: FW: Cherokee Indian legend






Cherokee Indian legend


Do you
know the legend of the Cherokee Indian
youth's rite of Passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds and leaves him alone.
He is 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.

[Description: Description: cid:1.3527527389 at web180104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com]

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.

[Description: Description: cid:2.3527527389 at web180104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com]
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.

[Description: Description: cid:3.3527527389 at web180104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com]

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 Him.

[Description: Description: cid:4.3527527389 at web180104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com]
Moral of the story:
Just because you can't see God,
Doesn't mean He is not there.
"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

If you liked this story, pass it on.
If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mishmash.net/pipermail/singles_mishmash.net/attachments/20120514/276c46d3/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ATT00001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 35082 bytes
Desc: ATT00001.jpg
URL: <http://mishmash.net/pipermail/singles_mishmash.net/attachments/20120514/276c46d3/attachment-0004.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ATT00002.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 20189 bytes
Desc: ATT00002.jpg
URL: <http://mishmash.net/pipermail/singles_mishmash.net/attachments/20120514/276c46d3/attachment-0005.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ATT00003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 49946 bytes
Desc: ATT00003.jpg
URL: <http://mishmash.net/pipermail/singles_mishmash.net/attachments/20120514/276c46d3/attachment-0006.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: ATT00004.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 36915 bytes
Desc: ATT00004.jpg
URL: <http://mishmash.net/pipermail/singles_mishmash.net/attachments/20120514/276c46d3/attachment-0007.jpg>