Help A Kid

Children fascinate me.....maybe you can tell!
They learn so easily, accept others freely, express love simply and are so very innocent.
Unless misguided adults teach them otherwise....

Investing in a child, time and money, is one of life’s BEST investments.
Let me give you one example from my own life.
This happened a few years ago.
I know a young girl who was 12 yrs. old at the time and she was convinced that she was....ugly.
I never, ever saw her smile.
She always looked and acted like her life was not important and ‘not interesting’ and others treated her this way.....
I was really drawn to this young lady and in a sense I emotionally adopted her. Every time I saw her at our big family gatherings I would seek her out in order to get to know her. She began to trust me with some of her intimate views of herself, her life, her family, school etc.
In the process, I discovered how very creative, talented and ‘quick witted’ she really was. I pointed these things out to her from time to time and because she trusted me.....she knew that this was not ‘flattery’ but that I was telling her the honest to God .....truth.
But I could not get her to smile spontaneously and certainly not laugh.
Knowing that she was earning money by babysitting I challenged her with a normal teen-age reward....I told her, “If the next time I see you, anywhere or anytime, and you are smiling....I will give you $25.00 cash immediately!”
Sure enough six months later I arrived at a family gathering and was hugged fiercely from behind by my young friend saying, “Where is my $25.00?”
Laughingly I paid her and was delighted to do so as I could see that it was not a ’paid for’ look on her sweet face. Her smile came from beyond, inside, and transformed her features to such a degree that she had become a truly beautiful young lady.
How thrilled I was.....and still am today!
She wrote me for awhile and then family members, over the years since, keep me informed of her marriage, children, etc. and she is still very Special to my heart.
Did this happen because of my $25.00 interest?
Absolutely not.....
She was transformed as she began to have faith in herself and as her life began to validate that truth....
I, also, was praying for her constantly, as were others as well.

Help a Kid discover their worth and you will be rich in the things that money can not buy.
It will be the BEST INVESTMENT YOU WILL EVER MAKE.


***You can give without loving,
.......but you can’t love......without giving!