Midnight Epiphanies

Sometimes we need to be upside down so that we can see right side up.

Once upon a time, not very long ago, there lived a little girl. This little girl tried very hard

to be good even though she didn't always succeed. Everyday the little girl journeyed through

the woods. While the little girl walked, her path began to get muddy, but it was such a very

little bit of mud that she didn't notice. The mud began to build and build over such a

long period of time that the girl couldn't remember her journey without the mud. As her walk

continued the little girl began to slip on the mud, but she slipped so slowly she couldn't see

what was happening until one day she slipped right into a hole and found herself at the very

bottom. When the little girl realized that she was lost and at the bottom of a deep hole she

was so afraid that she shut her eyes tight and wouldn't open them, afraid to see that there

was no way out. The little girl stayed in hole for a long time with her eyes tightly shut and

every time she tried to get out she would slip on the mud and fall back to the very bottom of

the hole. After awhile the little girl stopped trying to climb out and began to forget her way

back or even what life was like outside of the hole.

Time passed and the little girl began to wonder why she had continued her journey

through the woods, she had seen so many people stop along the way but she had continued

on. She wondered why she hadn't stopped walking before she ended up in the hole. Why had

everyone left her to journey through the woods alone...

Finally the little girl began to lose hope, she would never be able to climb out. Once she

realized this the little girl opened her eyes, and looked up.

There... standing above her was her father. He had been standing there all along with his

had out- all she had to do was look up and see him.

The little girl continued her walk through the woods, but now she knew that her father

was behind her, where he had been there all along.

From time to time the little girls path would again become muddy and sometimes she

would fall into a hole, but she knew that even w

hen she was at the bottom of a hole and even

during the times she was too afraid to look up that He was there. And when the little girl got

discouraged on her walk she would look up and see her father.

LOOK UP.