She read some short stories then picked up her Bible. Words fascinated her, so she looked up the word ‘nothing’ in the back. She found a series of questions with verses written in the margin. Questions like, ‘What can separate me from the love of God?’ and the answer: NOTHING!

Other questions were:
‘What did I bring into the world?’
‘What can I take out of this world?’
‘What should I worry about?
‘What is impossible with God?’
‘What is better than to be close to God and know abundant life?’
Then she read, ‘If I trust in God, what can the devil do against me?’

The answer to all of the questions was—NOTHING!

Emerald went to sleep that night feeling glad for her Nothing Day. The ‘NOTHINGS’ she had discovered were not just for a Nothing Day, they were for every day of the rest of her life. “I will enjoy Nothing Days each day from now on,” she promised herself.

© 2008 Carolyn Ann Aish. Original for CCF  (Aish grants CCF  first electronic rights for one month; CCF may archive the material indefinitely and include it in an eBook anthology).