erika
Registered: January 2008
Posts: 405
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As a child I had a large faith in God. For me everything was simple: God could do everything! When I was about 6 years old, my little brother got polio. He was paralyzed at one leg, and the doctors stood amazed at his enormous willpower and perseverance.
There was a time he could do anything. At school, during gymnastics he participated and when his leg was an obstruction at high-jumping, he just dived over the height and landed on his arms.
My brother very much wanted to learn how to ride a bike, but it just wouldn’t succeed.
All the time he fell and became very angry. One day I took my brother apart and said: “If you want to bike, you must pray and ask God if He wants to help you and then God will teach you how to bike”.
And together we prayed, a 7-year old and a 5-year old. And after our simple children’s prayer, he got on the bike and rode on a bike just like he’s always done that.
How often I long back for that childish faith of then.
Become like a child!
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