As many of you know our local LHS is closing . I have taken advantage of the huge discounts lately and purchased boxes of misc items ,mostly rolling stock and given them to our church for a kids program called “kids quest” which takes place on Sunday mornings. The children recieve plastic coins for memory verses,being good ,attendance…Last night I went to church for the weekly wed. bible study. When I entered one of the adults who works in this program thanked me for the stuff and told me how much the kids loved the train cars . Then she told me about a little boy who had bought me a box car with his “money”. To fully understand the full extent of his generous giving you need to know the “rest of the story” His father several months ago lost his job. Nothing that uncommon in the construction industry in this current market.However the Dad had been hurt very badly at work losing almost the use of one of his legs. At the end of the process of work men comp,doctors certifying him as being disabled his former employeer used a minor incident as an excuse and fired him. They have been with out income for months and at times in desperate straits. The church of course has hepled a lot and we have brought them groceries and given of our resources. We have had them over to our house and fed the family dinners…On one of these occasions I let the little boy run some trains on my lay out. He remebered this and bought me the box car that I had given to the church for the kids. I think I recieved the better gift. His thoughtfulness in the midst of adversity deeply touched me. There is an old saying “cast your bread upon the the water and it will return to you multiplied.” Certainly this is the case here. Sometimes you just get humbled by the small things in life.Thank you God for showing me the love of a little child.
Bless you, Bless the young gift-giver and Bless his family.
We need to remember that we have the ability to rise above troubles, sometimes it takes the youngest to remind us of this fact.
Mark Gosdin
Thank you for the blessing. I must confess that his act of kindness has so deeply touched me that every time I think of his actions it causes my eyes to moisten until a tear or two rolls down my cheek and my lip begins to quiver.The little boy is only about 6 inches higher than my knees. What a profound impact a little love and kindness from a child can have on an old hardened work horse like me. Excuse me I have to go blow my nose.Thank you again.
Sometimes you just…have to share a nice story. Thanks for sharing.
David B
From the mouths of babes…
This little story is another example of something which I have truly believed in for a very long time, and that is “what goes around, comes around.” Being nice is really so much easier and rewarding than being nasty.
Tom
It seems that sometimes we need to get slapped aside the head by an act of a child, to see that with all the bad in the world today. The goodness in a simple act of giving by a child can wake us to reality in their eyes to say thank you.
To bad the simple things and acts of the young are lost in the complications and worry as an adult at times.
I darn near cried while readin yer post - touching, to say the least. I bet you’ll never throw away that piece of rolling stock.
Yougottawanta–
I’m a firm believer in the fact that Good Deeds Beget Good Deeds, and your touching, wonderful story just proved it again. Bless you, Bless that child and Bless your church.
Tom [:)]