February, 1950
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Daddy's Story Hour
By James I. Robison
“Oh, tell me a story, Daddy,”
Was the ‘quest of my little girl,
As onto my knee she scrambled
And tossed from her face a curl.
I wrapped my arms around her,
And held her close to my breast
As asked, “What tale would you rather
I take from the old story chest?”
“Oh, tell of the little children
In the mission fields afar,
Or when Jesus was a baby,
Or the Wise Men's evening star.”
So settling back in the arm chair
In front of the evening blaze,
With the glimmering light a shining
On her curls and upturned face,
I paused a moment in thinking,
As from her dimpled lips
Came a sigh of full contentment,
As a bee when nectar it sips.
Then with the key of memory
I unlocked the old story chest,
And chose from its rare old treasures
The one she liked the best.
I told of the long, long journey
Of Joseph and Mary of old,
All the way from Nazareth’s village
To Bethlehem’s lone sheepfold,
Of the coming of the Christ child,
Of the Shepherds’ midnight song,
Of the visit of the Wise Men,
And of Egypt's flight so long.
She had heard the same old story
A dozen times or more,
And all the other best ones,
Kept in memory’s store.
But to see her face all eager
As the story unfolded anew,
To feel the hug of a “thank you”
As we bade little Jesus adieu;
And to hear her whisper softly,
“I love you, Daddy mine,”
Was worth a thousand stories
And all the wealth of time.
Into the flickering firelight
We gazed, our hearts as one,
I saw the long, long pathway
The little feet must run.
And I thought of the snares and pitfalls,
Unseen to carefree eyes,
And prayed to the Friend of children
To keep ever sure these ties
To a home where love binds stronger
Than all the attractions of sin,
And to guide the feet of my darling
With her father’s to enter in—
To that better home over yonder,
Where the Lover of children dear
Will tell the same old story—
May our children be there to hear.
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