Thank you, Lord, for filling me with Your love. Thank you for allowing me to be of service to others through You. Because of Your great love for me, I am able to love others with the understanding and compassion You bless me with.
I have a story for you.

My grandson, Elijah, and I were getting our car serviced the other day. He was having a conversation, (a quite grownup conversation, being that he is only 5), with a woman who was in the waiting room with us. He had seen a man leave the room to go outside and smoke a cigarette. We had recently been at a family get together where one of our friends was also smoking. Elijah's Mom must have discussed with him that smoking is very bad for you, for when this man came back in, he looked at me and the other woman and asked us to pray with him that this man would stop smoking. So right there, in the middle of the room, he stood and said, "Dear Jesus, please let this man stop smoking cigarettes, and Jesus, please don't let Vivian smoke anymore either. In Jesus name we pray. Amen" The woman and I both bowed our heads and said "amen", not looking over to see if the man had overheard his prayer, but secretly hoping that he had.
After the woman left, Elijah looked at me and said, "Now that lady knows about Jesus. Isn't that great?" I said, "It sure is!"

Out of the mouths of babes.... PTL