These are stories that prove that God is always with you, even when you can't see Him.
There was a boy. The boy was kind of nerdy. He was short and thin, and wore his pants too high. He wore thick glasses and read a lot. All the same, the boy wanted to be in the marines. So he went and was sent to an army camp.
Now, he was NOT the most popular person there. The other people there picked on him a lot. He payed a lot of attention when their instructor taught them, though the other students shot spitballs at him and whatnot. And they were hurtful with their words.
One day, one of the boy's peers thought of an awesome prank. Soon the everybody in the army camp knew of it but the boy who they were pranking.
The first boy had managed to snitch a fake grenade. One day outside, he would pull the pin and throw the fake grenade into the crowd. They would all run and scatter, and the nerdy boy would freak out!
So, the next day, the prankster pulled the pin from the faux grenade. Then he yelled, "Live grenade!" and hurled it as hard as he could.
All of the other students screeched and shouted and ran. But when they eagerly spun 'round to see the boy who they were pranking, he was crouching over the fake grenade, shielding it with his body, and yelling, "Run! Run! Run!"
Everything grew very quiet.
Later, the prankster boy asked the first boy, "Why did you do that? You didn't know it was fake. You would have died."
The other boy was quiet for awhile.
Finally he replied, "Well, Jesus died for me. Jesus was crucified, which means that his hands and feet were nailed to a big wooden pole. He sufficated. Jesus was God's own Son, and he died because it erased our sins. If he didn't do that, then when we died, we would be dead. That's all. But when Jesus, the Christ, did that, he saved us. If we beleive in Him, then we can go to heaven. Jesus loves us more than anything in the world, and his Father, God, loves us too. We mean more to him than anybody else."
The prankster thought about this for a long time.
Finally, he said a clunky, hesitant prayer to God. The boy who he had pranked had told him that praying was just talking to God, and that God heard every word that we spoke. He had said that God knew when we were awake or asleep, our every thought, and that He even knew our every blink.
Soon, the prankster asked God to save him, too.
And God did, because he was a gracious and loving
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