The Icelandic Canadian - 01.06.1945, Page 11

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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I could do, and I couldn’t think of a
thing, for a girl can’t do the things that
a fellow like Leland can do.
“Sometime in the night though I
thought of something, and next morn-
ing I told Daddy. You see, Leland played
the trumpet and he was really good.
He wanted me to play it too, but Mother
didn’t think that was an instrument
for a girl. But when I thought of all
that Leland had done with his trumpet
in the Sunday School orchestra, I made
up my mind I was going to play his
trumpet for him. Mother said it was
all right when I told her, and I’ve
already taken some lessons and I can
play the scale. I’ll bet Leland would
be proud of me if he could hear me.
I like to think he knows that I am
trying hard.
“And then something funny happened
right after breakfast. I was going past
my door and I saw the bed wasn’t
made up and the room wasn’t in order.
Right then I said to myself, ‘There’s
something I can do. I can make up
my room every morning and that will
give Mother time for her Red Cross
work.’ And I’ve done it every morning
since then. Leland knows how I bate
to do that sort of thing, and I know
he would like to have me do it so
Mother can do more for other soldiers.
“It’s wonderful all the things we have
found to do for Leland. You’d be sur-
prised how much of his work we are
doing.
“Just the other night when Daddy
bowed his head to pray before dinner
he said, ‘O God, we thank Thee for
giving us a chance to do our boy’s work.
It has helped us to do our own. All
the time we have been doing it we
have felt that it was thy strength we
were using. We were sure we would
be given what we needed when the
time came, and now the worst has come,
and we’re standing up all right’.
“No, I don’t agree with the other
girls. I don’t believe we ought to pray
that God will take care of our brothers,
and then say we will not believe in
Him if they get hurt. I think it’s all
right to pray that they will be protected
and brought home safely, but at our
house we prayed that way and Leland
didn’t come home. But we also prayed
that we might have what we had to
have to take it, and we have had that.
I know I couldn’t have taken it if I
hadn’t believed that way. Daddy taught
me how. That’s why I believe in God.
He gives us what we need when we
don’t have it in ourselves.”
When the boys come home Judy will
feel that her brother is near her and
her father and mother.
—W. J. L.
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