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Eagle Born to Fly: Finding Life Beyond
Depression by Sharon C. Matthies
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Part 1 - Getting There
The Earliest Years
 My
earliest memory takes me back to a rocking chair in Georgetown,
Ontario sometime during 1958. I would have been about three years
old, sitting in the rocking chair with Mrs. Brownridge, my babysitter,
who was reading stories to me out of an old, tattered black Bible.
It was there, nestled in her warm embrace, listening to the gentle
cooing of her storytelling that I first met God. It was hard for
a young child to distinguish God from the story’s main characters,
but that was where I got my first glimpse of Him: Daniel in the
lion’s den; the good Samaritan; the Prodigal Son; the widow
with just one mite; impetuous Peter; and my all-time favourite,
doubting Thomas.
Years later, when I went shopping for my own Bible, I searched
every bookstore to find the version of the Bible that she had used
during those beloved story-telling years. It was only after years
of futile searching and spiritual evolving that it finally dawned
on me that she had paraphrased the stories into a language that
a three-year-old child could understand; there was no special "Mrs.
Brownridge version" out there.
That was both my earliest childhood memory and my first encounter
with the One who was to become my constant companion along a very
long and shadowed path. He has been a steadfast Presence in my life
for as long as I can remember. While I was able to get some glimpses
of Him in Church and Sunday School, my favourite and most inspiring
Sacred Places have consistently turned up in the most unexpected
chapters of my story; indeed, at every confusing twist and precarious
bend in my road. It amazes me that even the muckiest puddle can
be Sacred Ground, but that’s often where I saw Him best.
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