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A Small Gospel Story

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The words are bound to my memory forever, “Now I lay my head down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep…” A small gospel tale read to me by my grandmother for my first years of life is my first recollection of loving books in my life. Though I can no longer recall the name of this gospel story that I demanded my grandmother read to me every time I spent the night at her house, I do remember how this book began my walk with Christ and my love for reading.
Throughout my almost eighteen years of life I have read a lot of books ranging from nursery rhymes to great works of literature such as A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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