Jack's tender heart

Yesterday (Saturday before Easter), we went to Valley Christian Center for their 2nd annual "eggs-traviganza", a fun outreach to the community with Carnival-type games and food, jumpy houses, face-painting and petting zoo. This is the church in Dublin where Mariana and Jack go to school. The main attraction was the egg hunt out on the soccer field -- 20,000 filled eggs for each of the three "hunt times".

Sorry -- we forgot the camera!!

We were sent into the gym before our hunt time to see a guy who performs feats of strength. It was cool. Then he briefly described his life as a kid who couldn't talk and was treated like a disabled child his whole upbringing, being sent to special ed classes, told he would never amount to anything, that he was a loser and would always be one. He shared how when he was a teenager, God got a hold of him, and God used someone who believed in him to show him he was special and God had plans for his life. Seriously, you would have never guessed that his guy had never talked until he was a teenager.

Anyway, as he was finishing his talk, Christiaan looked over to Jack and noticed he was looking very sad. The gym was pretty noisy with anxious parents and kids, itching to get outside and start the egg hunt. But 6-year-old Jack had listened and heard every word of the speaker's testimony. Christiaan took Jack into his lap and asked him if he was crying. Jack responded, "Just in one eye."

(such a guy! :)

I love my boy!!