What helps your faith? Discussing my faith with people my age
Top tips for Yfaith boys: Just be yourself, and don’t worry what people think of you.
Remember, there are millions of other young Catholics and Christians your age, who face the same situations as you.
And our random fact about Matthew: I had 4 ancestors in WWI and WWII
Wow, that’s some family history! Thanks for sharing Matt :-)
'You are my son whom I love; with you l am well pleased.' (Gospel of Mark, chapter 1, verse 11)
This Month we talk about... 'Fear'
One night I woke up and found that a fox had climbed into my bedroom. It was under my bed and I could feel its nose poking through my mattress into my back. I thought it was going to eat me and I froze with fear. I cried out in the loudest whisper I dared: “MUM, DAD – Help!”
Another time, I woke up and thought that some birds were going to break through my window and peck out my eyes. (I don’t remember why I thought that, but at the time it felt real). But this time I didn’t call for help because I knew I could deal with the situation myself
How? Well, what had happened was this. When my parents came into my room on the first night, they looked under my bed and couldn’t see a fox, but I knew it was there because I could feel it. So, we agreed that I would roll over and my Dad would grab the fox. I took a deep breath and on the count of three rolled...
My fox turned out to be a button on the mattress which somehow had turned over and was poking into my back. So, the next time, when I was afraid of the birds, I just pulled the duvet over my head. And when I was older, I was able to laugh about it.
Fear is a powerful emotion and sometime we feel trapped by it.
Sometimes our fear can protect us from doing foolish or dangerous things. But fear can also make us freeze when there is nothing really to be afraid of. If we try and face our fears, we can sometimes find out that there’s no fox – it’s just a button!
The bible encourages us 366 times not to be afraid – that’s one for each day of the year, even leap years. Maybe God is really trying to tell us something.
A frog can breathe through its skin
