Heart Healing
My son’s heart was broken a little a couple of weeks ago in his efforts to try and help others. Our church has been digging wells for communities in Zimbabwe. The Children’s Ministry decided that it would be good for the children to “own” their own well by raising the money to dig it. Great idea. I’m all for getting kids involved in charity. So, they were selling water at the Sunday services for a couple of weeks. Then, they decided to send “wells” home with the students in which they could collect money. These were little boxes covered in crumpled up brown paper with handles on them. (I think they were Chinese food boxes. Only heaven knows how they came up with enough of them for all the kids.) Christopher’s Sunday school teacher also had some bean seeds and gave them to the students so they could grow beans and sell them. That Sunday Chris came home from Sunday school so excited. We had brought a couple of his friends to church that day a...