Şikayet

Şikayet= complaint


Yesterday Noah told me that he loved school.  The reason he loved school is because his teacher had made a complaint box.  Noah proudly announced that he had 9 complaints.


We got to talking about the complaints and he told me that they were against a child in his class who smells bad.  My heart brooke!!


Literally, the night before I had watched an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on the internet.  The family had lost their son.  He was an 11 year old boy who was teased so badly that he eventually hung himself.


Can you imagine?


I told Noah about the little boy- almost his same age- that people were unkind to.  We talked about how to treat others and how God would want us to act.


It was a great conversation.  In the end he took the complaints that he had written out of his backpack and threw them in the trash instead of putting them in the complaint box.


Tonight, he came into my room and said this,


"Mom, you know that complaint box.  I'm going to ask my teacher if I can sit next to whoever gets the most complaints and help them out."


Yall, this Momma's heart is so, so proud of my boy.  I didn't tell him that he should do that.  In fact the thought never even crossed my mind.  My sweet boy wants to stop sitting next to his best friend and deliberately show kindness to someone who will probably be hard to love.


That is faith in action!




"'And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'  The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”    Mark 12:30-31