A devotional I wrote:
There was a girl who loved to make crosses. She made them in different colors, and sizes. One day she was in the backseat of her dad's car making a very special cross. Her dad looks in the rearview mirror, and asks
"What colors will this one be sweetheart?" She looks up, and replies, "Blue, and purple". She smiles, "it's for someone special." Her dad smiles in return as they arrive at the grocery store. As they park they over hear a man and his wife arguing in the car next to them. The little girl looks over, and closes her eyes as she wraps her little hand around the Cross that she just completed. "Daddy, can you help me to talk to that couple next to us?"
Her dad takes the keys out of the ignition, and smiles. "What for baby? They seem pretty heated right about now." The little girl smiles, "I just want to give the man this Cross I just finished." They got out of the car, and the little girl walked close to her dad as they approach the couple's vehicle. Her dad gently knocks on the driver's side window. "What do you want man?" The man in the car said as he lowered his window, "leave us alone".
The little girl's dad looks down at his daughter and frowns, "Honey, he doesn't seem like he wants to talk." The little girl smiles big, and goes up to the window. "Mister, I have a present for you." The guy in the car looks down at her, and replies "Oh yeah? what might that be?"
The little girl looks up at the man, and smiles, "Just a present for you," she says and raises her hand up and places the Cross into the man's hand. The little girl starts to cry happily. "It symbolizes the love that God has for us, God's word says, 'and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgivn you.'"
The man in the began to tear up as he opened the door. He huggs the little girl, ad whispers in her ear. "Thank you darlin." He turned back to his wife, and says "I don't know what got into me, please forgive me. I'll be better, this little girl has shown me the light." The man, and his wife hug, and thy reconciled their differences.
From then on out they lived happily ever after.
Open Invitation Ministries - Ephesians 4:32 KJV