Revolutionary Leaders

Innocent Witness

I usually don’t mind traveling, flying especially. When you fly, all you really have to do is sit and wait. The pilots and flight attendants do all the work. Right?

Yesterday’s return flight from my parent’s was work indeed. Anytime you fly with children it is work. This day of travel was particularly difficult because our second flight was canceled leaving us in quite a quandary. We were left with a two hour wait in Philadelphia and another two flights to get home. Instead of getting home at 5:35pm with enough time to make it to Jordan’s first basketball game, we were routed through Washington DC and didn’t get home until nearly 10:00 o’clock. That is work indeed.

There was a brighter side to our long day. Joshua entertained the stressed out folks in the waiting area with song and dance. Then Jordan and Jonathan talked and laughed with a new friend they made named Jen. Jordan also discovered that TicTacs are made with carnauba wax. We thought that was pretty funny. Jordan also got a kick out the being two exits in the “rear” of the aircraft. To a kid that’s pretty funny. Yeah, I thought it was funny to when he repeated it.

Another cool thing was that Jen, Jonathan’s new friend worked it out so that she could sit with him on the plain. Instead of taking her normal seat in 1a (the very front of the plain) she sat way in the back with him in row 17. Jordan and I were right behind them in the last row of the airplane (18a & 18c).

So where does my title “innocent witness” come from? Well, as you know, Jonathan is anything but shy. He has never met a stranger. To him, no one is a stranger, just a new friend. And of course with every new face is a new opportunity for him to let someone know that he is a Christian. In fact, my little innocent witness even read to her from his new book “God Chasers for Kids”, by Tommy Tenney. If only we were all that brave and bold.

Thank God for kids. I hope that you have been challenged to be an innocent witness too.