Natalie's Faith

Natalie, in short, Nat is a happy-go-lucky gal. She is 8 years old. Her parents are divorced, her brother is in another foster home in Pennsylvania while she's in New York. At that age, she has already learn to post mails to her brother and to her parents both living in "different continents" ...

Despite her age, she's grown independent. She knows how to take the train and walks to class everyday after playing with her gold fish. She changes their water every week to avoid them falling ill.

Nat knows by what time she should go back home as the streets in New York can get really dangerous for her. She's seen a lady being mugged in the alley sometime around dusk and that poor lady lost her jeweleries including her handbag. That made her cautious of her time out of home.

Nat although only 8 years old, always carries a pepper spray with her whenever she goes out. Her foster parents always nags her about being careful when she's out all by herself. Well Nat insists that she wants to go to class everyday by her own because she doesn't want to burden her foster parents. Her foster parents love her very much. Every night they would sit down at the living and watch a movie or play charades together.

Although Nat's foster parents aren't Christians, but they sure love her very much because Nat is such an obedient girl. Her biological parents would write her a mail once in a blue moon. She's not blaming her biological parents for where she is now, although she misses them a lot because she knows that God is in control.

Nat's kind and strong character at such a young age inspires her foster parents. Despite they're busy with work everyday but Nat knows that they are busy working to provide her a roof above her head and also to pay off apartment rents and car rents. Therefore she being such an understanding girl will not burden her foster parents.

Nat's capability to think like a young adult assures her foster parents that she'll be alright. They even bought her a cellphone for emergency's sake. Nat never abuses her freedom nor the trust her foster parents have. Although Nat has a liking for the colour black, and it seems awfully strange for a bubbly loving girl like her to like the colour black, it's nothing weird for her although it strikingly stands out because she's a girl. The perception of most adults is that girls will like the colour pink or light purple or lilac or cyan. She just likes it black.

She even got her room to be painted with black glossy paint, and her cabinets are also black in colour. Her reason for her liking: so that when she turns on the light, she is affirmed and comforted by the thought that in this world filled with darkness generally grouping the bad and mean things in the world, that there is Light to shine a path; a way out from the darkness, and that despite being black everything, one flick of the switch and brightness will drown the blackness.

Her thoughts was naively cute because at only the age of 8, she has already known the Light, and with a simple faith she braves the world alongside Him with her foster parents and biological parents and her brother with hopes that never ceases in her heart that in the darkness in the world, there is also brightness...






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