SOMETHING NEW
JULY 6TH 1994
Four old years today and I’m beginning to feel like a lady. Nursery school is no longer a bother; I’m the best student in class, the teacher loves me, and other kids try to be like me...things could not get any better.
One day in the course of the year, I finally understood who Jesus is. Mom and dad had been teaching us about him but I never quite grasped the true picture until that day in church. His life is can be summarised thus: He left His throne/home, came to earth to show the way to salvation, died to show for it and is alive forever. Anyone who can’t see this sacrificial act as the best thing in the history of mankind is...well, a child younger than me. I fell in love with Him from that day and often was caught in day dreams of being held in His arms cos guess what? He loves little children! I am soo qualified.
Something else happened during that period. One of those days when I was left home alone with my uncles, I had the worse experience ever. It so happened that my favourite tall uncle went out leaving me in the care of the other one, the short weird one. He took me from the room I was playing in, took me to where he lay, placed me securely underneath him, touched me in some ways...the story could have gone on different if not that before it got way worse, there was a knock on the door.
Four old years today and I’m beginning to feel like a lady. Nursery school is no longer a bother; I’m the best student in class, the teacher loves me, and other kids try to be like me...things could not get any better.
One day in the course of the year, I finally understood who Jesus is. Mom and dad had been teaching us about him but I never quite grasped the true picture until that day in church. His life is can be summarised thus: He left His throne/home, came to earth to show the way to salvation, died to show for it and is alive forever. Anyone who can’t see this sacrificial act as the best thing in the history of mankind is...well, a child younger than me. I fell in love with Him from that day and often was caught in day dreams of being held in His arms cos guess what? He loves little children! I am soo qualified.
Something else happened during that period. One of those days when I was left home alone with my uncles, I had the worse experience ever. It so happened that my favourite tall uncle went out leaving me in the care of the other one, the short weird one. He took me from the room I was playing in, took me to where he lay, placed me securely underneath him, touched me in some ways...the story could have gone on different if not that before it got way worse, there was a knock on the door.
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