After a tornado touched down in a small town nearby, all the local newspapers carried many stories on families who suffered the hardest. A particular photo especially 1 me. A young woman stood in front of a 2 mobile home, together with a young boy and a tiny girl standing before the ruins, eyes wide with 3 and fear. This would be a good 4 to teach my children to help those less 5than themselves.
I held the 6to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Breit, and to three-year-old Meghan. “These 7 people now have nothing," I said, "We are 8 to share what we have with them”. I brought three large boxes and asked the boys to 9 some of their less favorite things. The boys 10the toys they had chosen into one of the boxes 11 I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan12quietly and then walked up with Lucy, her 13 but much-loved doll hugged tightly to her 14"Oh , honey," I said, "You love her so much." "Lucy makes me happy. Maybe she'll make that 15girl happy, too." Having watched their baby sister, Brad brought one of his favorite action figures, and Bret 16 some of his prized match-box cars from his room.
Taking the cue from my little one, I 17 my old jacket from the box of clothes. I 18it with the new green one bought last week. True 19 is giving what you cherish most. I, who had 20 to teach, had been taught.
