This is a short story I wrote & I want to share it with you along with this image. Thank you for viewing & for reading my story. Thank you for comments, ratings & faves. I hope you enjoy. My Kind Friend Maelee and her husband Ted, adopted a child when she was three. The little girl named Marcy, was orphaned at the age of fifteen months when her daddy went to sleep while driving one night on a seldom traveled road in east Texas. The child’s parents were killed instantly. It took over fifteen hours for the accident to be discovered because of the remote location. The car hit a tree and had come to rest several yards off the road in a deep ditch that was covered with thick brush and vines. Everyone had said it was a miracle that the little girl survived the crash and the time it took for her to be found still strapped in her car seat. Maelee and Ted were happy to have this beautiful child and thanked God for her. They were puzzled every time Marcy would mention the kind friend who stayed with her and hadkept her safe the night of the accident. They took her to church and Sunday school every Sunday. One night when Maylee was reading a Bible story to four year old Marcy about Jesus, she showed her the pictures in the book. Maelee then ask Marcy if she knew who the person was in these pictures. The child answered “Yes!! He is ‘my kind friend’ who stayed with me that night my mommy and daddy died in the car. He held me in His hug and talked to me saying not to be afraid, until the policeman got there the next day to help me!!” Maelee was surprised to hear Marcy’s account of that night over two years ago when her parents were killed in that car crash. She now knew the miracle of why Marcy had lived was because The Lord was taking care of her during all those hours before the policeman had found the child still strapped in her car seat. Maelee now knew “the kind friend” that Marcy had been talking about all this time was Jesus. Copyright@ 2004 M. Doris Fuller