There's a new little girl that has been coming to our church and I think she is sweetest thing!
Before service started on Sunday I told her she could come and sit with me if she wanted, so she came on over and plopped down right beside me.
I had already asked her in small talk if she had any boyfriends. She is in the 3rd grade, and I think that is when I developed my first "crush." Most of the time, kids won't tell you, but she proudly stated she had 3! I couldn't help but laugh.
She pulled out her little purse that carried a few blank sheets of paper and a pen in it. She began drawing and I was showing her how to draw about the only things I know how to draw...hearts, a butterfly, a caterpillar, you know...the easy stuff.
As soon as I would draw something, she would take the page from me and write "I love you" on whatever I had just drawn. Then she starting writing "I love you" all over the page.
I was flattered! I thought, "I haven't known this kid long, but she loves me!"
Then she told me it was for her boyfriend(s)....ha!
After that she started writing things like "you are cute as can be!"
This literally made me giggle and I knew this little girl is going to be holding a very special place in my heart.
It also made me start to think...
Sometimes as adults, we forget some of the most basic concepts in life...Like how to "love" so easily! This little girl had a lot of love and wanted to give it to everyone!
As we grow older, and people hurt us, we tend to inadvertently take it out on all the new folks we may meet in this journey. We slowly let people into our lives, and even more slowly allow them to come close enough to hurt us, but trust that they won't. How many times have you trusted someone to be a part of your life and they hurt you? I think each of us can say that we have...so we're obviously not very good at picking these "safe to love" people.
In reality, we should "love" everyone and know that God has a purpose for this person to be in your life, good or bad.
I hope to have as much love to give, as this little girl showed me on Sunday.
xoxo
