Stories about kidnapped or missing children give me chills.

One day Annabelle and I walked pass a bench on our way to the grocery store. I saw an ad about a child who has been missing for 9 years. My heart muscles tightened up again. I stopped and told Annabelle about this girl. I told her this little girl cannot be with her mommy and daddy now probably because she did not follow her parents closely and someone took her away. She might have died or bad things might have happened to her. So the two of us stood there in front of the bench and we prayed for the little girl.

A true life lesson is more powerful than a thousand lectures. For the next half an hour we spent in the grocery store, Annabelle would not go 5 inches away from me. I wonder what will the next teachable life lesson be?

Now meet Annabelle by Annabelle…