Malady

The rain falls, on the hard stone roof of a woodland cottage. The wind swishing and swaying the many trees making up the woodline. There is an unsettling fog across the land; a dim light breaking through the dense smoke like air.

It came from a tiny window of the cottage, where a boy suffers from poison like cancer. The young boy sits in an arched chair looking out at the murky world behind the stained glass window. The boy with a gloom face thinks about the existence of God. He has never truly believed in God and has no real faith of his own.

The boy thought and thought; if there were no God then where do the answers come from? Is there a Heaven? Do we all just disappear and rot in the ground? The boy started to cry not knowing what will happen when he dies. The boy gets up from his chair and saves himself from his overflowing thoughts of death by falling to his knees before the window and prays for the first time.

"Dear God, this is the first time I have ever prayed to you because I do not know if you are truly there, give me a sign my God, and show me you are my Lord. Tell me I will ascend to a place where I am immortal and where I will feel no pain let me know God, please let me know!" the boy sadly pleaded.

The boy prayed for hours; emotionally and physically exhausted, the boy's head fell to the ground. Panting and trying to catch his breath as tears fell from his sullen face. An excruciating pain comes from within his chest and all the thoughts that told him God did not exist went through his mind over and over.

Suddenly, the boy's pain went away and he heard a calm, but stern voice,

The boy whimpered, "God are you truly there?"

"I have always been." God replied, "All you had to do is call out my name."

With warming ease in the boy's heart, he recognized His holiness. The boy feels joy for now knowing that God had always been with him. His worries of death and oblivion have all been washed away by his newly acquired faith. It brought so much relief to the boy's soul he began to cry tears of joy.

The boy then replies with tears in his eyes and with his righthand laid upon his heart, "I can now die knowing you are always there."

The boy closed his blue eyes and everything in his world grew quiet and still. Finally, at peace with all he had suffered.