I was about to sit down and write the devotional for today. I had a number of cool options to write about that would have reflected some awesome things that the Lord has been speaking to me lately. Just before going in to my home office to start writing I read this story posted by someone else on Facebook. It is so powerful, and ministered to me so much about “the way of life,“ Jesus lives, and thus lives through us, that I knew I had to send this out to all of you as today’s devotional. Evidently a group of professionals decided to ask a number of children between four and eight years old about what love means. A number of wonderful answers were given, but the winner was the answer that a four year old child gave. Below is what I copied. It made me cry.
“The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’