{"id":44620,"date":"2021-07-30T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44620"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:27:40","slug":"feel-good-friday-and-a-child-shall-lead-them-isaiah-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/feel-good-friday-and-a-child-shall-lead-them-isaiah-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Good Friday: &#8220;And A Child Shall Lead Them&#8221; [Isaiah 11:6]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While last Tuesday&#8217;s gut-wrenching testimony of trauma, terrorism, treason and tears by Police Officers Gonell, Fanone, Hodges and Dunn might not be enough to change the minds of many in the GQP \u2013 it did a great deal to restore my faith in humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, I believe it&#8217;s worthwhile to extend that good feeling with today&#8217;s offering.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editor&#8217;s Note<\/span>: You might want to keep a tissue close by.]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boy_gives_toys_to_homeless_child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boy_gives_toys_to_homeless_child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boy_gives_toys_to_homeless_child.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boy_gives_toys_to_homeless_child-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boy_gives_toys_to_homeless_child-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A video taken by someone with the handle <strong><em>&#8220;McLiez&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and posted on Facebook has been viewed over a million times and shared over 170,000 times &#8211; and deservedly so!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a minute-long clip taken of cars stuck in traffic.\u00a0 But a driver in one of the cars (believed to be in the Philippines) captured the most heart-warming video of a small boy holding a cloth that he most likely uses to clean car windows to earn some money.\u00a0 He approaches a stopped car with another small boy in the back.\u00a0 The child in the car rolls down his window and starts chatting with the boy.\u00a0 He then gives the child in the street a small toy he has so he could play with it, and the small boy is clearly delighted!<\/p>\n<p>As the boys play with each other, the one in the car then gives him a large dirt-digging excavator toy to play with.\u00a0 When the child in the street later tries to return the toys, the boy in the car refuses to take them back.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what to do, but wanting to show his gratitude, the boy in the street goes to get a bag of snacks that he shares with the boy in the car.\u00a0 As the traffic starts moving again, the two boys wave to each other.<\/p>\n<p>[<em><strong><u>NOTE<\/u><\/strong>:<\/em> This link to a Facebook posting is NOT the original Facebook posting by McLiez, but one from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/trending\/human-interest\/watch-little-boy-gifts-toy-cars-to-homeless-child-543333.html\"><em>&#8220;India Times&#8221;<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never belonged to Facebook and I&#8217;m not sure if the original is even available anymore.\u00a0 But I thought I should give Facebook some type of credit for posting it.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/m.indicator.official\/videos\/sharing-is-caring-%EF%B8%8F-in-the-video-a-boy-can-be-seen-gifting-his-toy-cars-to-a-hom\/525932725117381\/?extid=SEO----\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/m.indicator.official\/videos\/sharing-is-caring-%EF%B8%8F-in-the-video-a-boy-can-be-seen-gifting-his-toy-cars-to-a-hom\/525932725117381\/?extid=SEO&#8212;-<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BUT I did find a <strong>YouTube<\/strong> video of it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This video brought tears to my eyes\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/96WnL8ugQ1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the same spirit I thought it&#8217;d be worthwhile to share a &#8220;Bonus&#8221; video of the kindness of one child shown to another, when a little boy comes to the aid of a clearly distraught autistic child on the first day of school.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boy consoles crying classmate with autism on first day of school\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BdtiW2UDfD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I doubt children this age know what &#8220;compassion&#8221; or &#8220;empathy&#8221; even means.\u00a0 But more importantly, they know how to show it and share it with their fellow human beings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While last Tuesday&#8217;s gut-wrenching testimony of trauma, terrorism, treason and tears by Police Officers Gonell, Fanone, Hodges and Dunn might not be enough to change the minds of many in the GQP \u2013 it did a great deal to restore my faith in humanity. Consequently, I believe it&#8217;s worthwhile to extend that good feeling with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/feel-good-friday-and-a-child-shall-lead-them-isaiah-116\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4467,4479,4159,4478,4477,4476],"class_list":["post-44620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-children","tag-compassion","tag-empathy","tag-lesson","tag-share","tag-toys","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}