Once Upon A Time

I was going through some papers that really needed to be thrown away. But the more I looked, the more I understood my children may enjoy reading them some day, so I kept most of them. One of them made me laugh again. I share them today with you.

My daughter and her husband decided to take a camping trip. This was to be their first camping trip since their marriage and they hadn’t made any reservations , but now that I think about it, reservations weren’t needed at that time. As they were driving along they saw a sign, “CAMP GROUND. One mile. They pulled in and noticed the camp ground was unimproved and quite deserted. But since it was now dark, they would put up their tent.

When everything was done, it was time to find an outhouse somewhere. they left their little lantern burning and took off with their flashlight being their only light. After quite awhile they found two broken down houses, one said Women and the other said Men.

“You go in first with the flashlight because you’ll never find what’s in there until you do. I’ll wait out here until you are finished”, said my new son-in-law.

So my daughter bravely entered where it said “Women” and I’m not sure whether she did her job or not, but she dropped the flashlight down the hole! She didn’t know what she would do next, but she was pretty sure she didn’t want to stay there forever. She geared up her courage and went outside to meet the man she had married.

When he got over being angry, he said, “I think I have something in the truck that should work. That is if we can find the truck. It seems awfully dark here! They started walking they hoped was in the direction of their camp.

Soon, they saw the tiny flicker of their lantern and they knew they were almost home, at least their camp home! Now, how about you? In our country, don’t you wonder if we will be going to war? Not only with other countries, but could we have a civil war between the two agendas in our own country? Yes, we seem to be living in a very dark place. But the two people in our true story saw a flicker of light that led them home. We can go home to that light too. That light is God. God is always with us and He is light. We need Him to take away the darkness and bring us the light. He will take care of anything that needs to be taken care of. Yup! We don’t need to be afraid of darkness anymore.