GOD TAKES PICTURES
Tony Campolo, in Twenty Hot Potatoes Christians are Afraid to Touch asks “Why are so many people down on themselves (and what can they do about it)?” Then he shares this story: “A friend of mine has an adorable four- year-old daughter. She is bright, and she is talkative. If tryouts were being held for a modern Shirley Temple, I think she would win, hands down. One night there was a violent thunderstorm. The lightning flashed and the thunder rumbled – – it was one of those terrifying storms that forces everyone to tremble a bit. My friend ran upstairs to his daughter’s room to see if she was frightened and to assure her that everything would be all right. He got to her room and found her standing on the window sill, spread-eagle against the glass. When he shouted, “What are you doing?”, she turned away from the flashing lightning and happily reported, “I think that God is trying…
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