A Little Help From Our Friends.

Second day of school, so far so good. Last night one of the mom's of Jack's friends came over with her kid's to drop off a newspaper she had saved for us from Jack's Pilot for a Day at Dyess. I really like this family. When her boys saw the picture of Jack in the paper they were confused as to why Jack's appearance had changed. The last time they saw him was on the last day of 2nd grade. This brought up a family discussion as to a relative in their family who had cancer and she lost her hair. When she went to school kids were mean to her and made fun of her. A boy in her class ripped off her wig and tossed it around so she couldn't get it back making fun of her the whole time. When this girls brother, not much older than she was, heard this story later that day he went and found this little boy, pushed him off his bike, punched him a couple of times and took his bike. He drove it home, put it in the garage and went to his room. Not too long after that the police showed up at the door and told his mom and dad what had happened, he came out of his room and told the police that he did steal the bike. He wasn't hiding what he had done because he felt it was justified. The police left him to his mom and dad's accord, and returned the bike to the owner. When they shut the front door both mom and dad high fived their son for taking up for his sister.
Once the story was over this dad who we have only met a couple of times told his sons to take up for Jack. If someone was making fun of him or teasing him, they had his permission to do what needed to be done. He said, "You take care of Jack and you wont get in any trouble at home, you do what needs to be done."
I sat on my couch last night listening to my friend recount all this for me, and I just couldn't help but cry. This reminds me of the scripture that talks about "taking up for the least of these." I am not sure that the Lord had fighting in mind, but it surely made me feel like Jack had some little friends that were watching out for him, and we all need friends looking out for us.