Isaiah was crying at bedtime.
His stuffed Puppy has a hole
at the seam, which we said Mama could fix tomorrow, but he got worked up about
it. I went in and lay down with him and talked to him. I sang “Jesus Loves Me”
and “Step by Step”.
I asked him what happened last time Puppy had a hole, he
said Mama fixed him that time. I talked to him about how Puppy was actually
really old because dogs age differently and we've had Puppy as long as we
have had Isaiah. How Isaiah picked Puppy to be his friend the first time he
walked into our home in Bowman House.
Isaiah grabbed my arm and pulled it around his body and
said,
“Stay with me Papa.
Tell me a story.”
Once there was an….
