Me: I got the perfect story for your friend that you brought today.

Prodigal: We are ready.

This is from Charles Swindoll

In a cartoon some years ago a little guy was taking heat from his sister and friends for a newly found “calling–patting little birds on the head. The distressed birds would approach, lower their little feathered pates to be patted, sigh deeply, and walk away satisfied. It brought him no end of fulfillment–in spite of the teasing he took from others. “What’s wrong with patting birds on the head?” he wanted to know. “What’s wrong with it?” his embarrassed friends replied. “No one else does it!”

If your niche is encouraging, please don’t stop. If it is embracing, demonstrating warmth, compassion, and mercy to feathers that have been ruffled by offense and bruised by adversity, for goodness’ sake, keep stroking. Don’t quit, whatever you do. If God made you a “patter,” then keep on patting to the glory of God.

For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:13

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodiglapig.com

www.faithincounseling.org