True Stories
Welcome to the True Stories center! Here are true stories that children wrote as 9 and 10 year olds. It just amazes me how God gives you something and then something may go wrong but, in the end everything happens for a reason. If you want your story in here please send it to me! Thanks.
*Shenna Glory*
My first horse was the best experience ever! We had a special bond in between us. She was my best friend. When I was sad she comforted me and it was like she
knew I was sad and so she would always cheer me up.
—-Every day before school I’d go into her pen and give her a great big hug and a kiss on her soft speckled nose. “I love you, Shenna Glory.” I’d say to her and probably say it to her about twenty times each day. After school when I got off the bus I’d through my backpack on the ground and ran as fast as I could to her pen, saddle her up, hop up on her back and then I’d start running her around the yard, and one funny thing that she did that I cannot recall a day she didn’t was her lip. Shenna would flap her lip over and over up and down. It was hilarious!
—-Shenna was a beautiful Appaloosa horse with a very white mane and tail. She had a lot of grey, white and brown spots. I thought she was the most beautiful horse. She would run with her head up tall and she looked like she was having as much fun as me. She couldn’t run for long times though because she was old like in her thirty’s. —-I would practice barrel racing with Shenna. I got good enough and learned the pattern that I did gaming with her at the rodeo. Shenna and I won a first place ribbon, two third place ribbons, and three fourth place ribbons. I was so proud of her. She tried the best she could do. Even if Shenna didn’t win anything I wouldn’t care! We both had fun.
—The worst thing ever in my whole life happened one day an hour before school ended my daddy came to the school and excused me from class. We went out into the hall he said, “Shenna isn’t doing well.” My eyes started to tear right away. They were burning. I went inside the class and got my books and homework everyone was telling me goodbye, but I couldn’t see at all. My eyes were tearing terribly. It hurt not only the feeling but inside. Everybody was looking at me like “What is wrong?” But, no one said a word.
—-We drove home and I ran out of the car. I looked into the stalls, there she was laying in the hay with her body all sweaty and looked miserable. She couldn’t move. We tried hard to keep her up and standing but we couldn’t. I sat there in the hay holding her head up kissing her sweaty face. She was in a lot of pain. I sat there for about an hour and then at sometimes I just had to leave where it just was getting worse and worse. I said my goodbyes.
—-Then the vet came over and took her out of all that pain. We buried her by a beautiful tree. Mom made a cross. We decorated the tree with wind chimes that sound really pretty and we want to turn that place into a garden, since Shenna passed away it has seemed so silent around outside. I cry still today. No matter what she’ll always be in my heart and memories. She also the best experience for ever for me. I hope she likes it in the skies. Now she can run faster and she can let my grandmother in heaven ride her, but even though she is not here, she is in our hearts and my mom told me once as we looked into that empty pen we know great horses live again.
—-And it is true they live again in our hearts, way up in heaven. God Bless Shenna Glory. Thank you lord for the wonderful blessing you have sent to me.
God giving me Shenna, made me realize that I am not afraid to go to heaven.
Before Shenna passed away, I was terrified to think that someday I am going to have to die. Now that Shenna passed away I am not afraid anymore of dying. I know someday I am going to be up their in heaven standing right next to her with everyone else I love who has passed away. To think she’s in a better place now, to think she won’t suffer the way I saw she did. To think Shenna Glory’s now happier I’ve claimed Shenna Glory as my guardian angel. To think she’s looking down on me, as I’m looking up to her.
I’d give anything to hug her and give her a kiss on her warm, speckled nose. Or talk to her beautiful face and look into her sparkly eyes but, what I really know is that that I am going to see her again. I know, that day will come.
Grandma Lucielle
My Grandma Lucielle was a very kind and generous lady. She had not found christ yet nd was in her 70’s. She had been ill though for quite some while, too. She was now at the hospital and my aunt was trying really hard to help my grandma find christ.
My mom and brother went to go visit Grandma Lucielle in the hospital. I didn’t realize it that the reason we were visiting her, is because she was dying. By the time our visit was about over, we all hugged and kissed her and said our goodbyes.
Then my mom, my brother, and I all held hands and walked out of the hospital. Right when we stepped through the doors, there was a huge rainbow above the hospital. I believe that the rainbow was my grandma Lucielle’s bridge to heaven. I beleive that she’s in heaven, and I believe that when I go to heaven that she’s waiting for me there.
Activity: WWJD? Discuss a problem between you and a friend. Think WWJD? What would Jesus do? Also think of some sort of problem or sin that you’ve made. What do you think he was thinking while you did that? Take a sheet of paper and write down your sin. Rip it up until you can’t see it anymore. How many times you ripped it up are how many times Jesus forgave you for that one sin. So many times you can’t see it anymore. Think wwjd. And what would he do?
