HOLDING DEATH BACK
The following story was told by Rex Humbard: A woman became very ill. After a time of hospitalization she returned home, but was confined to bed. Her eight-year-old daughter was not aware of the terminal status of the illness. This little girl stood outside the bedroom door one afternoon as the doctor, along with her father, visited her mother. She overheard the doctor say, “Yes, I will be frank with you. The time is not too far off. Before the last leaves have gone from the trees you will die.” The little girl’s presence was not detected. Sometime later the father came to the breakfast table to find that his little girl was not there as he had expected. After searching for her he saw her out in the front yard. His heart was broken as he watched her picking up leaves that had begun to fall. She was using thread to tie them back onto the limbs of the tree.
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