The Story of Our Father's Love (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MORE ABOUT OUR FATHER. O you wonder that you cannot see God ? How was it you did not see your mother last night, when she came to your bedside and kissed you ? Because you were sleeping, and your eyes were shut. How is it that if your father comes to you in a room where you are wide awake, and the shutters are closed, that you do not see him ? Because there is not light enough, yousay. Now open the shutters just the very least bit. A little stream of light comes through?not enough to show you anything in the room, but if the sun is shining outside, you will see tiny specks of dust floating about in the stream of light. There is something even in the air, that you did not know was there! Open the shutters a little wider, very little. You can make out that there are things in the room, you can just see that there is some one standing there. As you push the shutter wider open and wider till the full sunlight pours in, the form of your father standing there, grows clearer and clearer, and at last every book on the shelves, every picture on the wall, is as clear to you as can be. Does that help you to understand how it is, that you cannot see your heavenly Fatherthough He is always close beside you ? On earth, we are all of us, as it were, in a darkened room; but one day, little by little or perhaps all at once, God's angels will open the shutters. Then we shall see our dear Father's face, and shall never want to go away from Him again. Think how He must love you, when He gives you so many things every day to make you happy. Wherever you go, you see his beautiful gifts. The bright sun that warms you in summer-time, the birds that are singing when you wake in the morning, the soft green grass you play on, and every lovely garden flower ! See, too, how all...