The Little Girl

Thursday, June 26, 2014

There was a little girl who was walking through the hallway of her home, and she came to the place, where they had a shutter door on the floor that went down into the basement. It was one of these that lift up on their hinge like a trap door, and it was laid back, and there was just a dark hole there in the floor, and no light was on in the basement. She heard a noise down there and so she said, "Hey, who's down there?" And her daddy said, "It's me, your daddy." She said, Well, I want to come down there with you daddy." He said, "Well, I've taken away the ladder, but he said, if you jump, then I'll catch you." He could see her because she was in the light and his eyes had become accustomed to the dark, but she couldn't see him down there in the darkness. She said, "But daddy, I can't see you." He said, "That's all right. I can see you. Go ahead and jump. "But," she said, "Daddy, I'm afraid." He said, "Now, wait a minute sweetheart. I want to ask you a question. Do you believe that I am down here?" "Why," she said, "Of course, I am talking with you." He said, "All right, do you believe that I'm strong enough to catch you?" She said, "I know you're strong enough to catch me." "Alright, do you believe that I love you?" "Well, daddy, I know that you love me." "Alright, now let me ask you one more question. Have I ever told you a lie?" "No daddy, you've never told me a lie." "Alright, if you know I'm down here and that I'm strong enough to catch you, and that I have never told you a lie, and that I love you, then jump." And she said, "Okay, daddy, here I come." Off she stepped into that black hole, and of course her daddy caught her and gave her a hug and sat her down gently. That girl's faith pleased her father, that she trusted him enough to do just as he told her to do.

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