Helping Hearts

“Encourage one another and build each other up.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”  Proverbs 18:21

Earlier this school year, some of my friends began receiving hurtful notes from another student in my grade. The notes were full of mean things and made my friends feel very badly about themselves. At recess one day, a few of my friends and I began throwing out ideas on how to help those whose feelings had been hurt by the anonymous notes. We thought that we could give encouraging and godly letters not only to the ones that were hurt but also to other students who could use encouraging words to brighten their day or to uplift those who felt left out. We called ourselves Helping Hearts and began our letter-writing mission that day.

At first, Helping Hearts was only made up of a few students. After we began handing out notes, many others, including kids in the other class, wanted to help too. Our group gave every student in 4^th grade a handmade letter.  Many students told us how much they appreciated the kind notes. After Helping Hearts began its mission, the mean letters stopped! To this day we still don’t know who wrote the hurtful letters. I hope Helping Hearts helped this person understand that unkind words can really hurt people’s feelings.

I shared with my little sister that we began writing notes to encourage others. She, then, began writing notes for her kindergarten friends too! It is a great example of what Satan meant for evil, God made GOOD!

By Mary Grace Olinger

Age 10, Whitesburg Christian Academy

 

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