14But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14 KJV

As I was reading this story the Bible verse quoted above kept going through my head.

A local woman is accused of beating her young grandson so badly he lost consciousness, police said.

According to police, Delores Henderson, 55, was walking down the street, hitting the two-year-old in the stroller and slamming it into the curb.

“People driving in the area of Dixon at this boulevard were witnessing this woman hitting this child,” Barbara Matthews with Cocoa police said.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Fiske and Dixon Boulevard in Cocoa.

Police arrived after being contacted by witnesses. Police said the beatings didn’t stop, even after Henderson dumped the boy out of his stroller and on to the concrete.

“As he drove up, he saw her hitting the child in the head. She was slapping him with her open hand,” Matthews said. “The officer described it as looking like a rag doll. She threw him back in the stroller and started to hit him again.”

An officer was eventually able to wrestle Henderson away from the child. The boy got up after being briefly unconscious.

There are times when you don’t feel like watching your grandchildren because you want to do something else, but you watch them anyway and you love them for all you’re worth.

I’m sure all grandparents feel the same way my husband and I and Sue and her husband feel about our grandchildren: If I knew they were so much fun I would have had them first!

To hear the voice of a little boy trying to sound grown-up, calling to ask for money for the American Heart Association makes my heart melt and, though he doesn’t know it, I would give everything I have to please him.

Not spoil him because we realize they have certain responsibilities, but we spoil them a lot more than we did our own children, even though we make them mind. I can’t tell you how much I love our four grandchildren.

Children are a gift from God. Why in the world would an adult slap a child until he lost consciousness for a few minutes? I was going to say, “And in public”, but I’m glad it was in public because she got reported and the little guy got saved from abuse.

The story doesn’t mention his mother or where he is now, but I can imagine Jesus was in Heaven intervening on that boy’s behalf. Who knows what plans God has for this little innocent?

When the disciples tried to hold back children who had been brought to Jesus to be touched and blessed Jesus got angry and told them to let the children come to Him because such is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He has time for all of us regardless of age and I somehow think He has a special spot in His heart for children.

May this little boy grow up knowing and loving Jesus, and may he be used by the Lord to lead many more people to Him.

Written by ~J~

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