{"id":18509,"date":"2010-05-29T05:46:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T05:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/wp3\/?p=18509"},"modified":"2019-12-10T05:28:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:28:38","slug":"the-runaway-bunny-by-margaret-wise-brown-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/wp3\/freedom-post-articles\/the-runaway-bunny-by-margaret-wise-brown-1942","title":{"rendered":"The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1942)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing can separate us from God’s loving presence…<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\".<\/a><\/p>\n

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away.<\/p>\n

So he said to his mother, \u201cI am running away.\u201d
\n\u201cIf you run away,\u201d said his mother, \u201cI will run after you. \".<\/a><\/p>\n

For you are my little bunny.\u201d\u201cIf you run after me,\u201d said the little bunny,
\n\u201cI will become a fish in a trout stream
\nand I will swim away from you.\u201d\u201cIf you become a fish in a trout stream,\u201d said his mother,
\n\u201cI will become a fisherman and I will fish for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a fisherman,\u201d said the little bunny,
\n\u201cI will become a rock on the mountain, high above you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\".<\/a>\u201cIf you become a rock on the mountain high above me,\u201d
\nsaid his mother, \u201cI will become a mountain climber,
\nand I will climb to where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a mountain climber,\u201d
\nsaid the little bunny,
\n\u201cI will be a crocus in a hidden garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a crocus in a hidden garden,\u201d
\nsaid his mother, \u201cI will be a gardener. And I will find you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\".<\/a>\u201cIf you are a gardener and find me,\u201d
\nsaid the little bunny, \u201cI will be a bird
\nand fly away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a bird and fly away from me,\u201d
\nsaid his mother, \u201cI will be a tree that you come home to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a tree,\u201d said the little bunny,
\n\u201cI will become a little sailboat,
\n\".<\/a>and I will sail away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a sailboat and sail away from me,\u201d
\nsaid his mother, \u201cI will become the wind
\nand blow you where I want you to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become the wind and blow me,\u201d said the little bunny,
\n\u201cI will join a circus and fly away on a flying trapeze.\u201d<\/p>\n

\".<\/a>\u201cIf you go flying on a flying trapeze,\u201d said his mother,
\n\u201cI will be a tightrope walker,
\nand I will walk across the air to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a tightrope walker and walk across the air,\u201d
\nsaid the bunny, \u201cI will become a little boy
\nand run into a house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you become a little boy and run into a house,\u201d
\n\"\"<\/a>said the mother bunny, \u201cI will become your mother
\nand catch you in my arms and hug you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShucks,\u201d said the bunny, \u201cI might just as well
\nstay where I am and be your little bunny.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so he did.
\n\u201cHave a carrot,\u201d said the mother bunny.<\/p>\n

I can never escape from your Spirit!<\/span>
\nI can never get away from your presence!<\/span>
\nIf I go up to heaven, you are there;<\/span>
\nif I go down to the grave, you are there.<\/span>
\nIf I ride the wings of the morning,<\/span>
\nif I dwell by the farthest oceans,<\/span>
\nEven there your hand will guide me,<\/span>
\nand your strength will support me.<\/span>
\nI could ask the darkness to hide me<\/span>
\nand the light around me to become night\u2014<\/span>
\nBut even in darkness I cannot hide from you.<\/span>\u00a0 Psalm 139:7-12 (NLT)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Below is a brief clip from the movie Wit,<\/em> where I discovered the story called The Runaway Bunny<\/em>. It’s about a woman with cancer in her final moments when a former mentor reads her this promise of assurance that she is and will be loved and well cared for.<\/span><\/p>\n