"She Noticed"

Last Sunday he came to worship with a cast on his broken hand. As he stood in line to pick up his child from the Kidz Zone, a little girl noticed his hand. Sierra is her name. (Sierra is a little girl that our society would say has special needs, but around here we just call her special). She signed with her hands to her mom and asked, "What happened?" Her mom asked and he explained he had broken his hand. Then Sierra asked, "Does he need an IV?" Sierra has had to many IV's in her life to keep track of...she has been through so many surgeries and has many more to come, so she was concerned that perhaps he would need one too. He explained he did not need one. Then she asked, "Did it hurt?" He said, "Yes, it did." Then Sierra did something he did not expect...her eyes filled with tears...she hurt for him...with him. Already in her young life she knows all too well physical pain. And because of what she has been through, already she has learned a lesson that many adults fail to learn that when you hurt, it means a lot to have someone else notice. It means a lot to know someone else cares. It means a lot to have someone cry with you. He said to me, "Chad, I just met an Angel" and then he told me the story.

I was going to find a Scripture to go with this, but then I thought, isn't this what the entire Bible is about?

Thank you, Sierra, I needed to be reminded of the powerful ministry of noticing!