The wordless book

My mother-n-law Fran told me a neat story about her childhood the other night. She said that when she was young and one of many children in a single mom's household that a woman from the "Good News" club came to her neighborhood to teach her about Jesus. In addition, she gave her a book called the "Wordless Book". It's pages were blank but each page had a different background color. There was black for sin, red for Jesus' blood, white for forgiveness, and green for growing in faith. She memorized verses to go with each page and still has the book. 

Several things struck me about her story. 

1) How important it is to minister to children in big and small ways because those seeds will last a lifetime

2) That we have to believe God has a plan and that we do good for Him, even if we don't understand it and we never see the fruits of our labor

3) Even though our faith does grow our whole life, it really is simple and childlike, and we should try to keep it that way even when life throws us many obstacles

Thanks for the story Fran! I love you! Just like Mrs. Hunt from the Good News club planted seeds in you, you have planted seeds in us that will last a lifetime!