05/25/2010: "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"

By: Melissa Cuthbertson

God moments come when you least except them. That is why it’s called a God moment. I had one of those moments on May 8, 2010 while serving at a HUG Cookout at Royal Courts Trailer Park in Lake City, Georgia

I was standing talking with a friend who was also serving when I notice a little blonde haired girl with no shoes on sitting on a chair eating a hotdog and chips. Her hair was to her shoulders and looked like it had been through a good day of playing outside. She was about 9 years old. I could feel tugging on my heart when I told my friend, “You see that little girl over there, that use to me”. I don’t know this little girls situation but I was reminded of mine.

I too lived in trailer parks when I was little. The parks I lived in there were lots of drug and bad people. I would run around barefoot, my hair stringy and not a care in the world. I was innocent like this little girl. But back at my house there were lots of things going on I wasn’t aware of. Drugs, alcohol and selfishness. I bounced from one trailer park to another as I grew up. My life was very unstable.

The thing is I didn’t know God but He was always there. With my prayer bear every night I learned how to pray to a God I didn’t really know. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. The angels watch me through the night until I wake in morning light! Amen” He never left me alone, He was always there. At age 15 I accepted Christ into my life.

PRAISE GOD for his Son and for never leaving that little blonde hair girl to face the world alone.

In Christ,

Melissa Cuthbertson