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The Kings Mountain Herald
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
There is always room for each of us in God’s lap
With Mother’s Day in
May and Father’s Day in
June, it seems like the late
spring and early summer
are seasons that give us the
chance to focus on the im-
portance of our family re-
lationships, and of the
blessings that we receive
from our families.
Several years aga, I
read an interesting story
about an elementary school
teacher, who served in an
inner city school. She said
that many of her first-grade
students were missing so
many fundamental experi-
ences others often took for
granted, and to drive home
Meditation her
Tar point
she
went
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about a
little
Dr. Jeff Hensley = Ter-
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tion
made a deep impression on
her heart.
Terrence was a small
child with light skin, big
brown eyes and brown hair
that was seldom combed.
To most folks who knew
him, Terrence was like a
throwaway. He had basi-
cally been raised by his
brother, who was a year
older, and an 18-year-old
sister. Terrence’s mom
was frequently in jail with
numerous problems, and
Terrence was thus a child
who, if it weren’t for the
breakfast and lunch pro-
grams at school, would
never eat a nutritional
meal.
Dinner for Terrence was
a “Butterfinger” candy bar
and a cola, and when Ter-
rence came to school his
teacher noticed how sad he
often was. She knew that
no one had ever loved or
cherished this small, scared
child, and so during group
reading times she would
ask Terrence to sit in her
lap and help her turn the
pages.
At first, Terrence didn’t
even know how to sit in
her lap and lean against
her, but he soon learned.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t
long before Terrence’s
mother was arrested again,
and Terrence had to leave
the school and go to live
with his sister. The teacher
was saddened by his depar-
ture and wished she could
have done more for him.
These feelings were
deepened when, a few
years later, the teacher
learned that Terrence had
been killed in a freak acci-
dent. “My heart was bro-
ken when I heard of
Terrence’s death,” she said.
“I told my family how sad
I was; how I had never
taught him a single thing.
He couldn’t read when he.
left me, nor could he write
when he left me. All I had
taught him to do was sit in
a woman’s lap * and what
kind of life skill is that?”
A few days after she
and her family had dis-
cussed her sadness and in-
ability to reach Terrence,
this teacher’s own small
+ son came to her, climbed
up into her lap, and then
said, “Mommy, it’s a good
thing you taught that little
‘boy to sit in someone’s lap
because he’s sitting in
God’s lap right now.”
There are few places
where we may feel as safe
as we feel when we are
small enough to sit in our
mother’s lap, but we can
be thankful that there are
Godly parents who remind
us that there is always
room for us in God’s lap.
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