Faith of a Child {Xavier}

He's going to change lives, this boy...

 

...not because he wears a cape or has superhuman strength, but because of his heart.

While talking in Bible, History and Science about how, of ALLLL the things God created, the most precious creation of all to Him was His people, I decided it was time to introduce my children to the topic of the orphan.  It's not that we haven't discussed orphans or adoption in the past but not to the point of understanding what God calls us to do for those without mommies and daddies or whose mommies and daddies can't take care of them.

The conversation went something like this...

Me: "God created man..."

Xavier: "from the dust!"

Me:  "Yes, son.  Now...God created man in His image and there is nothing in this whole world that He loves more than His children.  Do you know who His children are?  WE are His children.  You and me and daddy and all the people.  Just like I love you so much, God loves you and me even more!  Did you know, though, that there are children in the world who haven't got a mommy or a daddy to take care of them?"

Xavier:  "Why don't they?" {looking at me with big eyes behind his glasses}

Me:  "Well, the mommies who carried them in their tummies decided they couldn't take care of them so they have to make another choice for their babies.  Some get adopted by new mommies and daddies while others might live in a place called an orphanage or a foster home while they are waiting for a mommy or a daddy.  You know, even if they don't have parents right here, Jesus loves them very much, but the Bible tells us in the book of James to take care of the orphans who don't have a mommy or daddy to care for them."

Xavier:  "We're supposed to follow the Bible words."

Me: "Yes, we are.  So I think we should stop right now and pray for the babies and boys and girls who don't have a mommy or daddy to hold them and rock them and kiss them right now or whose mommy and daddy needs to make a different choice for them." 

We stop.  We pray.  I pat myself on the back for a lesson well taught.

:pause:  I should have seen where this was going to go.  Natalee was with us at the table doing a lot on internalizing, but had yet to say much of anything.

Xavier continued to color his work page for a few more minutes and finally stopped, put down his crayon, and said, "Mommy, if there are boys and girls who don't have anywhere to live or a mommy and daddy to rock them and kiss them then why aren't we bringing them to live here?"

My son, you are going to push us to bigger and greater things.  You, quite simply, just solved one of the world's greatest problems and had your shoes on ready to walk out the gospel with the true faith of a child.  Never ever lose that simple security that God is right and His ways are true.