The News Girl

The other day I went to the park with some pictures of the gospel story. I sat down on a bench, and a little 7 year old girl came over selling newspapers. I showed her the pictures, and when she saw the picture of Jesus nailed to the cross she took my hand and "nailed" it up, then the other hand, and then my feet until I was nailed to her make-believe cross while sitting on my bench. A little while later I was with her and her mother and siblings, and I got to share the message with them too. The little girl was carrying the "bad news" and I was carrying the "good news". I think back to when I was her age. What if no one had been there to tell me the good news, and I had grown up without knowing about the things of God. I wouldn’t have ended up in Guatemala telling a seven-year-old girl and her family about Jesus Christ. Who would have taken my place? Maybe no one. But my mom made sure I knew about the Lord when I was young. And that seed is still bearing fruit today!