This past Saturday, as my wife and I were doing our morning Bible study on our front porch, a young girl with a polka dot shirt rode up on her bike, got off and started searching through our neighbors’ bushes. It was obvious she was in search of “something!”
The little girl’s name was Bella. She is 8 years old and she was clearly upset about something. Upon coming up empty in our neighbors’ bushes, she bravely, yet cautiously, walked over to us and asked, “Do you mind if I look through your bushes for Sprinkles?”
I asked; “Who is Sprinkles?” She replied that Sprinkles is a baby rabbit she found in her yard, and that Sprinkles has a little white spot on her head. She said she put Sprinkles in her book bag and brought her over to her friend’s next door to show her. She then carefully put Sprinkles back into the book bag. She left the zipper open just a little bit, so Sprinkles could breathe! However, upon her return, she found that Sprinkles got out and now was lost somewhere over here in the bushes.
“May I please look in your bushes for Sprinkles?” she asked.
Now, who could refuse a request like that? Now, Bella may only be eight years old, but she had a seriousness of that of a surgeon, as she searched our bushes for her bel ...
