Sep. 15, 2006 - Thy Word is a Lamp to My Feet...

Today I started reading Mary Jones and Her Bible to my eldest, my five year old daughter. I thought I would share a passage from the end of Chapter One.

(To give context: Mary and her mother are walking home on a dark, windy night, with a lantern guiding their way)

"Mrs. Jones was about to answer, when she stumbled over a stone and fell, though fortunately without hurting herself. Mary's thoughts were so full of what she had been saying, that she had become careless in the management of the lantern, and her mother not seeing the stone, had struck her foot against it.

'Ah, child! it's the present duties after all that we must look after most,' saild Molly, as she got slowly up; 'and even a fall may teach us a lesson, Mary. The very Word of God itself, which is a lamp to our feet, and a light to our path, can't save us from many a tumble if we don't use it aright, and let the light shine on our daily life, helping us in it's smallest duties and cares. Remember this, my little Mary.'

And little Mary did remember this, and her after life proved that she had taken the lesson to heart-a simple lesson, taught by a simple unlearned handmaid of the Lord, but a lesson which the child treasured up in her very heart of hearts."