Emphasis Preaching Journal

A story is told of an older man who visited a home where there were five children. He was supposed to be a kind of "godfather" to them and was trying to get involved with them on their level. He asked one of the little girls about her doll collection: "Which one is your favorite?" "Promise you won't laugh if I tell you?" she answered. "No, I won't laugh," he said. She went into the next room and brought back a doll that was the most tattered, dilapidated, worn--out doll he had ever seen -- a real refugee from the trash heap.