A good lesson.

God provided us with an amazing teaching experience on the way to the airport last week. We stopped at a gas station for what was a close to "crisis" potty break for Grant. When Nate stepped out on the sidewalk he glanced down and saw a wallet that had about six $20.00 bills sticking out of it. He picked it up and tossed it in the car and said "figure out what to do with this" and he preceded in to find the restroom. Well the older boys that were in the car saw this and began to freak out at the sight of "ALL" this money that we had. But the most amazing thing occurred. They almost all immediately began to brainstorm on how we would find the person who owned the wallet to return the money. Not one of them verbalized the idea of keeping it. After Nate returned to the car, it actually sparked about a 20 minute family discussion on why it is the right thing to do (primarily led by the boys) and how people could have been tempted by finding that. Long story short, we found the owners number in the wallet and called him and he was so thankful and overwhelmed that we had. The boys were actually excited to give him his wallet, just because it feels good to do the right thing! When he came to meet us, he reached in the wallet and insisted that we take $40.00, ten for each of the boys. I think for the first time in like 10 years we had a jaw dropping moment with all the children dead silent. Even though we were under the pressure of having a plane to catch, we were SO thankful that we had made that stop. There was never a lecture or teaching that we could have provided as parents that would have taught them more. An amazing example of how rewarding it can feel to do a random act of kindness.