Article December 8, 2008 Issue

Take the SHOES off your HEAD!

Ruby

One day, my mom and I were talking about how we pray to God for healing. Mom was telling me a story about King David in the Bible. Once David cried to God about how he felt like everyone didn't like him. People were whispering behind his back, saying that he was a bad person, and that he was stuck with some terrible disease. They were just sitting around, waiting for him to die. But David decided he didn't care what they thought. He stood strong with God, saying in his prayers that he trusted God to keep him safe forever and ever (see Ps. 41:5–13).

Mom and I talked about how sometimes, just like those guys who didn't like David, we "fasten" a sickness onto somebody, or even onto our own self—and then we can't see people as they really are.

"It's like paper dolls," Mom said. "If you paste the wrong clothes onto the wrong person, it just doesn't look right. But when we take the costume off, we can see the real person still there underneath."

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