a boy @ Eden's Day

1st May=Eden's Day !!

For the 1st time, there's a children counter as a stall at Eden's Day. I was helping at the counter and wow! so many kids! It was only 8 plus and the counter was teeming with children...i got excited everytime a kid entered the main entrance :) We had lots of activites to keep them occupied but it only seemed that they preferred colouring and balloon sculpturing. haha! kids........

Thank God i learnt balloon sculpturing in JC in my CCA...cos it's a very effective way of reaching out to children...cos u have what they love-balloons! There were many children, all busy with their colouring and chocolates. However, this one boy caught my eyes.

He was a very shy and timid boy. He was always tagging behind mummy and holding on tightly to her shirt when she wanted to bring him for colouring. His face turned sour and tears will start to well up in his fearful eyes. His mum was busy with her stall, so she had no choice but to send him for colouring for a while. I thought, what a difficult case.....

It was only after giving him a few chocolate sticks and a bear shaped balloon then did he willingly sit down on the chair placed just outside the my counter. I thought again..........a very difficult case. I saw him sitting there by his own, so i went forward to chat with him.

He was a stone when i talked to him. Totally a stone..

Gave him a balloon to hold on too.......no response
invite him for colouring............no response
blablabla.........no response

THEN i saw a white blue tack in his left palm...i opened his palm and took it, asking who gave it to him? could i take a look at it? and u know what? you know what?
the SILENT boy SPOKE!
haha! i was so delighted! he spoke to say," mummy gave me..."!!

a miracle....hah! Thank God! :D so i continued...asked him to put some of the white substance on the bear balloon as its eyes ...and he nodded his head. yes! he said ok! and there his fingers moved..haha! then, i asked him if he wanted to colour, bcos his bear also wanted to colour, together with him....

and? He said oK! he said ok ok ok ok!
AHHHH!!!! I was so thankful that he finally broke out of his shyness and fear...
Thank God!

see? God can work amazingly even in little things like this.. :) Isn't He wonderful?? I still can't believe it....these small breakthroughs in children's lives affect them in their development. Believe it or not, they do, because it's in childhood that their values, mindsets, surroundings etc are easily moulded and most vulnerable to bad influences.

So.....please be a good parent to your future children :)