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Short Stories (Stories for the Youth), book by Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty

418- Dad! There is One Who sees you

 

St-Takla.org Image: Getting darker, the dark, night - Itissa Taklahimanot Monastery - From St-Takla.org's Ethiopia visit - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, April-June 2008. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: بدأت تظلم أكثر، حلول الظلام، المساء - من ألبوم صور دير إتيسا تكلاهيمانوت (محل ميلاد القديس تكلا هايمانوت) - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، من رحلة موقع الأنبا تكلا إلى إثيوبيا، إبريل - يونيو 2008.

One dark night, a man wanted to steal corn from the neighboring fields. He took along with him his young daughter. At the first field, he asked her to keep watch. If anyone appeared, she should shout, “There is someone who can see you.”

The father carried some corn; then, he went to the second field. “Dad, there’s someone who can see you,” Shouted the daughter.

He left in a hurry to go to the third field. The same thing was repeated.

The father was mad and said to his daughter, “Why did you lie to me? I looked all around and I didn’t see any one.”

“But dad you did not look upwards where there is One Who sees you,” said the daughter.

The father was ashamed of himself since he was afraid that people might see him, yet he was not afraid of God who sees even when it is dark.

→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: أبي! يوجد من يراك!

Grant me with Joseph the righteous

Not to care for closed doors.

Knowing that You see me,

I shout, “How then can I do this great wickedness

And sin against God?”

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