Thursday, February 27, 2014

Special

I do lunch duty every day. This week they moved the disabled students to my side of the cafeteria right next to my table. This week I have seen a little boy...maybe 3 years old, have a mother and father come to feed him at lunch. They hug, they stroke, they make a special organic food. If the mom isn't there, the father is. I went over to talk to the dad and he says they come every day. I was commenting on how special I thought that was to another aide and she said that when we had the fundraiser run (laps =money) that dad came to help his son and ended up carrying him lap after lap while the dad walked the laps. I think the Lord reserves special parents for those special spirits.

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

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