Sara’s Adventures: Adventure Three “When I Am Afraid…”
“Mommy! Mommy!”
Sara awoke startled.
“Emily, what’s the matter?”
“Mommy! Mommy!” Emily cried.
Sara flung the blankets off her bed, and ran down the hallway. She opened Emily’s bedroom door to find Emily hiding under the covers. Just then a loud boom of thunder echoed outside.
“Mommy, I am scared.”
“I am right here, sweetheart.”
Emily peeked over her blanket, just as lightning lit the night sky.
Sara sat on Emily’s bed. “Come here.”
Emily climbed up in her mother’s lap. “Why are you scared, Emily?”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen. What if a tornado comes?”
“You aren’t this scared when storms come in the daylight.”
“I can see better than when it’s dark outside.”
“Oh, I see.”
“I wish I was older like you, so I wouldn’t have to be so scared.”
“Mommy gets scared too , sometimes. “
“No, you don’t .”
“ I was when your daddy was told he had cancer. I didn’t know what would happen.”
“What did you do?”
“I prayed, and in time, the Lord gave me a song to sing.”
“When I am afraid, I will trust in You. When I walk through the valley, and I cannot see over the next hill; You see the complete landscape.”
“You see my future and what lies ahead. When I am afraid, I will trust in You. What looks like darkness and storms ahead, You will be with me . My Light and Hope in the midst of the trials. My Comforter, I will trust in You. Our lives are in Your Hands.”
“When I am afraid, I will trust in you.”
“I sang this song, every time I was nervous about a doctor’s appointment or when your daddy endured the chemo treatments.”
“Mommy, do you think you can write the song down, so I can sing it when I am afraid?” Emily said groggily.
“Of course, sweetheart.”
“When I am afraid I will trust in You… “
Emily sang before sleep overtook her. As the thunder rolled and lightning flashed across the sky, Sara rocked Emily knowing that God was with them, watching all, even in the middle of the storm.
Psalms 56:3-4a World English Bible
3 When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in you.
4 In God, I praise his word.
In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid.