My daughter came into my bedroom late.  I was already in bed, just not yet asleep.  She was frantically concerned about one of her friends.  They had been texting all evening and he had said some things that led her to believe he was going to end his life.

She wanted me to go with her to find him.  She knew he was on top of one of the grain dryers by the baseball field less than two blocks from our house.  Well, she was ready before I was and left to go find him.  When I arrived, after my eyes acclimated to the darkness, I saw my daughter, who is deathly afraid of heights, had already ascended to the first level of the dryer.

A little background, my daughter has never done heights.  She can hardly ride and escalator, go up stairs or ride an elevator.  When she is off the first floor she will not walk where she can see the bottom floor.  But, because of her compassion for this friend of hers, she overcame her fear to do what she could to help him.  This is amazing, and part of the story that he will never know!

I took her place so she could keep him occupied on his cell phone.  As I searched for him, she talked to him, keeping him calm.  I could not find her friend and went to the ground, thinking he may have given bad directions.  Her young eyes spotted him at the very apex of the grain dryer.  She kept her eyes of him all the while texting him.  He kept responding.

When 911 was called she assisted the police officers and the ambulance drivers.  She was commended by the officers as a "true friend", and that she is!

Her relationship with Jesus has led her to be compassionate.  Her compassion led her into action.  Her actions may have saved the physical life of this friend of hers.

I am in awe of my daughter,  Her caring compassion for others is dunamic.  She faced her fears so that she could be there to help her friend to face his.  She truly was the hands and feet of Jesus last night; as well as His eyes and ears to see and hear a plea for help.

I do not know where she learned this.  I would like to think her mom and I molded it in her, but I truly believe the Holy Spirit said, "she is ready...  she has lived long in God's love" and gave her the chance to save a physical life.  Now she is not satisfied.  She has been trying to share Jesus with this friend for 2 years.  Tonight she will have the opportunity.  In a hospital setting.  With the angels of God all around and the Holy Spirit by her side she will share Jesus with him.  She preached last night with her life, tonight she can lift up Jesus with ther voice.  I pray the angels of heaven will rejoice as my daughter's love for people shines Jesus' love to a sinners heart and I pray he will become a follower of Jesus Christ!