A Tender Heart

I thought I would only have one post today but I am compelled to share tonight's prayer time before bed. We say our prayers then we have a list of Most Important Things that we repeat. Our first one is this - God loved us and sent his son Jesus to die for our sins. The second one is this - We love Jesus because he first loved us and died on the cross for our sins. The first two sparked a conversation about Jesus. Puddin' said "you know Momma, Jesus did not have to die on the cross. He made the choice to get on the cross for us!" I'm thinking, "wow, she knows he volunteered!" We discussed this point then she said, "and he rose on the 4th oops I mean 3rd day. And all the disciples even Judah got to see him and the ladies at the tomb." I then got to delicately explain why Judas not Judah did not get to see him. She remembered that he was the "bad" disciple. Then her face changed and she looked concerned and said "maybe Judas was a bad boy and grew up to be a bad man? And there is a little boy that was in my class and he is a bad boy and maybe he is going to grow up to be a bad man and he will not get to go to heaven because he won't know Jesus! She's crying by now! Her heart is grieved about this boy, J. She proceeded to tell me some of the bad things J has done at school. He has apparently been moved to a school for bad kids now. I asked her "why do you think J is so angry and does those things?" She said "because maybe nobody loves him at home." I'm weeping by now. So, we prayed for J tonight that he would be safe and that somebody would show him love and that he would find Jesus. Thank you Jesus for showing us Puddin's tender heart! Stop and say a prayer for J too!