Christ-like

Things have been more than just a little crazy around my house lately, more on that later. Tonight I watched my son do so many kind and unselfish things. We've been staying at a hotel just a minute from our home, again more on that later. We decided to go out as a family with my brother's family who also lives in our home and is now living in the hotel with us. They have a son just a little younger than my oldest. They have always been really good friends and at the same time close like brothers. So that means that they fight too. Well tonight there wasn't any fighting. We went to Pirate Island, a pizza place like Chuck-e-Cheese. My oldest noticed that his cousin didn't have any tokens to play the games with. I watched as he handed him half of what he had. You might not think that this was a big deal, but every year for the past 4 years my oldest asks to go to Chuck-e-Cheese for his birthday. It is his favorite place to go and we usually only go on his birthday. When he found out that Pirate Island is like Chuck-e-Cheese he has wanted to go for over a year now. His next kind act was giving his cousin some of his tickets so he could pick out a prize, not having very many of his own. His cousin was so excited to be able to get some prizes too. When we went back to the hotel my oldest noticed that he didn't have as many prizes as his siblings. He got a little upset about it. I took him in the other room and told him about his choices. I got very emotional reminding him of his kindness. As I was reminding him of that I had a precious thought come to my mind. That those acts of kindness that my son had done was exactly what the Savior would have done if He were there tonight. I told my son that as I cried and told him how proud I was of him and the righteous choices he had made. He looked me in the eye, stopped crying, gave me a hug and asked if he could go and see his cousin. When he came back I asked him what he did. He told me he had given him another one of his prizes. It's amazing what we can learn from our children.