A little girls fear
A little girls fear, no matter how irrational, matters to God. I love telling stories, and this a favorite of mine in my storehouse of a life lived with the God who makes their beautiful Presence known here on earth. Even when it seems like a popping in and out, and a here and there, through a life. They do so, the three who are so close they can only be called One, with deep respect for us and submitted to our limitations. I was in the third grade and my first holy communion was coming up, and boy was I scared! It was a high grade nervousness of having to interact with the Catholic priest and call him Father during a couple of the practices. Authority figures just set me shaking in my boots in those days and truly for many years afterwards as well. Well, here I was going about my life with this worry hanging over my head and busying my mind. Then out of thin air I my attention is drawn to my pretty new and pretty unused little children's Bible that had be...