A Story
Read: Psalm 121:1-8
It is time for the young Cherokee Indian boy to participate in one of the most important rites of his tribe.
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolded, and leaves him all alone. The youth is required to sit on a stump the whole night, and not to take off the blindfold until the rays of the sun shine through it the next morning.
He is all by himself. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he becomes a man.
He cannot tell any of the younger boys anything about this experience, for each boy must come into his own manhood.
The boy is terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises!! Wild beasts are all around him.
His imagination stirs up wild sights and sounds! There may even be some humans who are there to hurt him.
The wind blows the grass and stirs the earth and seems to shake the stump where he sits. Still, he sits still, very still, never removing the blindfold, for this is the only way he can become a man.
Finally, after a horrific night, the sun has appeared and he removes his blindfold. It is only then that he sees his father, sitting on the stump next to him, where he has been watching over him the whole long night.
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