My parents both modeled a powerful example of what being like Jesus looks like:
When I was a toddler and a preschooler, my Dad was stationed in West Berlin, Germany (he was in the Air Force).
My parents used to own a VW van that broke down a lot, but they used it to transport various people to church. One time is vivid in my mind: I remember a woman breastfeeding her baby as we bumped down the road to church with a blanket over her. I remember thinking (or now as I ponder backwards) how neat it was that my parents would take a van load of people to church with them. I don’t know why they did or how they did. All I remember was that one time with the breastfeeding lady in the van. I think I classified her as needy. Maybe all of them as needy.
This experience helped form my image of God by my parents modeling for me as a young child what it meant to help other people when they were needy.
God helps those in need.
Who would have thought that ride to church would have made that kind of impression on a kid?!!
Thanks, Dad!!
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