He looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and very seriously said,
"My lungs are close to my heart, Momma."
This is the same child that took money he had earned
and purchased a pair of wrestling shoes for a team-mate. His friend was
living in a children's home and had been wrestling in his tennis shoes.
The day the team went to it's first match the little boy didn't have
a pair of wrestling shoes.
So this child didn't feel out of place, my child took him aside
and purchased the shoes for him.
This is the child that doesn't just give a "homeless" person
spare change, but gives them enough to purchase a meal.
The child that always brings home stray animals, because they need
to have something to eat.
The child that found a baby bird who had fallen out of it's nest
and nursed it to adult-hood.
Does he know what is close to his heart? You bet he does.
I shall not have lived in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not have lived in vain.
~*~*~Emily Dickinson~*~*~
