After our fellowship meeting yesterday morning, we went to a friend’s house for dinner.  On the way home after dinner, Kelly told us about a small event that she witnessed that we appreciated very much.  There was a little boy there named Warren who must be six or seven years old.  He is a very sweet boy, but he tends to ramble when he tells stories.  There were a good number of kids there, most of whom were a little older than Warren.  Kelly observed that his stories often got cut off by the other kids interrupting him.  It did not phase Warren too much… I guess he must have been used to such treatment.  By chance–there were a lot of kids there–he started telling a girl named Katie a story.  She must have been eight or nine years old.

When one of the other kids interrupted, Katie, held up here hand to stop the interruption and said “Go ahead and finish your story, Warren.”

Kelly was amazed.  I was very impressed with Katie for that act of kindness and very impressed with Kelly for taking note of that kindness and realizing that it was very special.  It was a small thing at the time, but a great benefit in the end, not only to Warren, but to Katie because things practiced become things internalized, to Kelly because that modeled behavior is something she realized was worthy of emulation, and now to me, because of the joy it brought me in hearing the story.