Acquainted with Grief

A married couple came to me after Sunday school.

They had eaten supper with one of our students, and they were troubled.

“This little girl shouldn’t even know about the things she was telling us,” the wife said. 

The husband agreed and asked the girl’s name again so that they could pray for her. Both husband and wife had experienced trauma growing up themselves, and it grieved them to find another child caught in the same malicious trap. Their grief was transformed to compassion as the...