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Learning to Forgive

In Papua New Guinea, Judah is learning how to love and forgive the children he plays with. One day he and his brothers were playing marbles with a Bulu boy. The boy started out with only three marbles of his own, but by the end of the game he had six.

“Are all of those your marbles?” Judah asked him, suspiciously. A few looked very familiar.

“Yes!” the other boy said.

Judah’s mom heard the boys talking and came over. “Are you a giaman [liar]?” she asked the Bulu boy.

“No,” he said. Then he took the six marbles home with him.

Judah felt sad and upset. “Mom, he’s lying. He stole my marbles!”

“I know it doesn’t make you feel good when someone lies and steals from you,” Mom said kindly. “We will pray about what to do.”

After praying, the Lord gave Mom an idea. “We will give the boy another marble from our prize bag,” she told Judah. “Jesus wants us to turn the other cheek and do good to those who do evil to us. The Bible says that we will heap coals of fire on his head.”

At first Judah wasn’t so sure that it was a good idea. But after he thought about what Mom had said, he decided it would be good to try it out. So they went together to find the Bulu boy. Mom smiled and gave him a really big marble. He just stared at them in confusion. He could not understand why they were being kind when he had been selfish.

Now Judah and his family are praying for that boy. Best of all, the Lord has helped Judah to love and forgive him.

—shared by Judah’s mom