Emphasis Preaching Journal

Dr. E. Stanley Jones tells the story of a boy who was sent to the United States to go to school, while his parents worked as missionaries in a foreign country. One day the school principal visited the young lad in his room and asked, "What would you like to have most of all?"

Looking at a picture of his father on his desk, the boy replied, "I would like to have my father step out of that picture." He missed his parents very much, especially his father, and he longed for their companionship again.