A Child and a Bible

        Sorry I am behind again. It has been another busy week but hopefully this next week will be a lot slower. Children are so straight forwards with what they think most of the time. Sometimes it makes you think if they even know what they are talking about. I had this one girl this week (same one I have been talking about a lot lately) that had 2 very important chats with me. The first one all started when she saw a shadow outside while she was swinging and her shadow was "following" her. I was trying to explain to her that when she gets in the way of the sun that is what makes her shadow. Then the next thing I hear is "Just like my daddy is watching me." To me, she thinks her shadows are her daddy looking down on her and watching her. I asked her, "Where is your daddy watching you from?" and she said, "Up there." She told me about how she misses her daddy and how she likes him better then the one she has now because of certain reasons I can't say. It just broke my heart.
           Then the day after that day during bedtime she got to talking about a fair that she got to go to with her aunt and how she took a free Bible from I guess a stand. I asked her questions like," do you read it, does it have pictures in it, and did your aunt read it to you?" She said that she looked at it but "no" to the other questions. Then I asked her if she would like a Bible where it had pictures that she could look at and someone could read to her and she said "yes". I'm getting one for her. Then that got me thinking this isn't the first chat I had about God or Bibles or anything like that. We need one main Bible to keep at my work so we could read it at bedtime just like stories if we have these chats or let it be a choice in the book basket and then they can pick and not be "made" to hear it. I find it hard to explain to this child that her daddy is up in Heaven, not just up there, so sadly I don't but some Bible stories will maybe help her understand some or at least know there is a place called "Heaven".
            I think God is showing me how something that simple can make a difference in a child's life. Yeah, they may not get the stories at first but it showed them that someone cared enough to give them one. It is simple to do. All we have to do is go buy a few or have some donated. It is my missionary heart working again but you know what I am so thankful and blessed that I work at a place where I'm able to have those talks and do those things. It is brought up a lot of the times by the children looking for something to believe in or someone to love them. It's sad that we have to see that in a little child but so true these days. This is a way we can be a blessing to children and people because who knows how many that one Bible will reach. We never know where they are going to go and maybe a grown up Bible is to hard for even the parents to read so a children's Bible would be perfect.
            What is something simple you can do for a child today? Maybe take a few hours out of your day to play with them or even a minute to give them a hug? This is not an adveratisement even though it might sound like one but really more to make you think. :)